Write On Maui

about
Mary Allton

 

a wonderful day

full of opportunity

is mine for using

character pictures

careless rock designs, showing

nature’s formations

perfectly designed

a thousand years in a day

moth, so beautiful

castles in the sky

mansions of fluffy puff balls

softly dissolving

I can feel your touch

sometimes gentle, often wild

wind, I can’t see you

birds in formation

with instinctive symmetry

banking and turning

beautiful redbird

off in a flash of color

surveillance complete

bigger than the house

effortlessly traveling

my thoughts soar outward

silence of morning

nestled in quiet center

of wild confusion

Haiku by Mary (Meka) Allton
(from Good Morning, Morning, a booklet of haiku poetry)

© 1975 Mardon © renewed 2004 Mary Allton