Month: January 2009

I started this one after spending all day watching inauguration events, feeling the remarkable turning of the times.

A friend sent a haiku she wrote–

joyful Obama!
your mother’s spirit lives on
fresh and new this day

And here’s another I had written–

the biggest change of
all, yes, a president who
says i love you back

well actually with neither horse nor saddle, but hopefully the silence is there

With sweetness comes it opposite, its shadow companions. But why admit to one and not the other? Unless of course if we have forgotten how to play…