Poetry meme

[squeequeg]

"Distressed Haiku"

In a week or ten days
the snow and ice
will melt from Cemetery Road.

I'm coming! Don't move!

*

Once again it is April.
Today is the day
we would have been married
twenty-six years.

I finished with April
halfway through March.

*

You think that their
dying is the worst
thing that could happen.

Then they stay dead.

*

Will Hall ever write
lines that do anything
but whine and complain?

In April the blue
mountain revises
from white toward green.

*

The Boston Red Sox win
a hundred straight games.
The mouse rips
the throat of the lion

and the dead return.

-- Donald Hall
from The Painted Bed, 2002.

When you see this, post a poem in your journal.