Category: Tri-ku

• Clouds Distance Earth Flowers LIght sunlight Tri-ku

  Clouds Racing the Wind
  Through Fresh Blue Skies and Sunlight
  To Far Horizons

  Spring Twirls With Each Gust
  Raising Earth, Light and Water
  To Flowers and Leaves

  It is all Rebirth
  And Resurrection But For
  An Unnamed Longing

  April 18, 2024
• Street Tri-ku

  I Was On My Way
  Somewhere Else When This Random
  Little Plant Called Out

  Small, No Bloom or Bud,
  Just Short and Sturdy Between
  Two Slabs of Concrete

  That Plant and I Will
  Live Our Lives, Persistently,
  In Between the Facts

  May 2, 2022
• Clouds frost LIght Night Sunrise Sunset Tri-ku

  
  Tipping Towards That
  Longest Night, Even the Air
  Seems White and Frosted

  But Still, Sunset Lights
  The Clouds In the Soft Colors
  Of Longer Journeys

  And This Sunrise Drapes
  The Landscape in a Warm Light
  Gentle as Fine Lace

  December 10, 2018
• Autumn Clouds dreams Love Moon Tri-ku

  
  Harvest Moon Outshines
  The Pre-Dawn Sky, Horizon
  Pulls the Rushing Clouds

  Away, Away, and
  Away, Clouds’ Gravity Pulls My
  Heart and Mind Away

  I am Awake Now
  And Yet Dreaming of my Past
  And of Our Future

  September 9, 2017
• Family Food Home Love Memories Tri-ku

  
  Dough From My Own Hands
  Fresh Baked, Sliced and Buttered Tastes
  of Generations
  
  First My Mother’s Bread
  Baked Each Friday, Fragrance Fills
  The House After School
  
  And My Father’s Rolls,
  Cinnamon and Butter and
  Dough, Fried and Frosted
  
  And, Like a Story,
  Grandma’s Cookies, Soft, Sweet and
  Rationed, Sneak Cookies
  
  So My Bread Tastes of
  Generations, Leavened With
  Love and Memory

  July 30, 2017
• History Mountain Sky Tri-ku

  
  Between Mountain Tops
  A Broad Green Valley Stretches
  Beneath Bluest Skies

  We Will Cross Those Fields
  Step by Step Packing Water,
  Food, and History

  After all is seen
  Wilderness Remains Beyond
  The Grasp of Visions

  July 30, 2016
• Clouds Fog LIght Morning Tri-ku

  
  Molten Sunrise Clouds
  Flowing Inexorably
  North Above the Mist

  Street Signs Shining
  Like Beacons for Navigating
  Ambiguous Shores

  Calling Out to Us
  To Journey, To Set Out, Not
  Knowing Where we Go

  July 12, 2016
• Love sunlight Tri-ku

  
  Now The Physicists
  See Gravitational Waves
  In Smallest Measures

  But I’d Already Felt
  Our Waves, Yours and Mine, Echoed
  Between and Beyond

  Our Own Gravity
  Space, and Time Gently Pulling
  Our Worlds Close Together

  February 14, 2016
• Death History Love Memories Spiritual Tri-ku

  
  Flung Forward By Time,
  Willed Life Shattering Into
  A Kind of Foundling

  It Seems Impossible.
  This is Real And That Is Not,
  Then Followed By Now

  Before and After,
  Always Together, Always
  Apart, And That Line.

  January 12, 2016
• dreams Friends History Tri-ku

  We talked of Losing
  And of Keeping, Endurance
  And No Conclusions

  Talked of Your Freckles,
  Of Food, And Other Delights
  Real or Just Desired

  It Had Been Awhile
  But Still We Talked Easily
  Across All The Gaps

  November 30, 2015
• dreams History LIght Memories Tri-ku

  Twenty Five Years and
  Two O’clock have Come and Gone
  Like Dreams on Waking

  Sifting Through the Mind
  Slowly, All Effervescent
  And Insubstantial

  Saved by the Sure Weight
  Of Memory, Casting Its Light
  Into the Future

  September 15, 2015
• Autumn Clouds LIght Morning Summer Sun Tri-ku

  Orange Sun Rising
  Through a Floating Summer Haze
  High Clouds Whisper Fall

  Something Beginning
  Or Ending Or Maybe Both
  But Always Longing

  And Only Blues on
  The Radio, or That’s Just
  All I Care to Hear

  September 2, 2015
• Death Love Spiritual Tri-ku

  In Memoriam, Joe DiJulio

  He Has Gone Ahead
  But You Must Tarry Here for
  Some Little Longer

  Between Now and Then
  On That Long Bridge Between Loss
  And Recovery

  A Heavy Heart is
  Still a Sacred Vessel Filled
  With Enduring Love

  July 31, 2015
• Animals History LIght Love Memories Tri-ku

  Allen Miller 1918-2015

  An Old Photograph,
  Tattered Edges, Creased and Scratched
  Faded and Fuzzy

  But She’s Turned Towards You
  Smiling, And Your Joy Shines Through
  All the Time That’s Passed

  Lighting Memories
  That Float and Glow Like Fireflies
  In the Late Evening

  June 10, 2015
• Animals Clouds Fog LIght Moon Tri-ku winter

  Cloudy and Colder
  The Day Settles in Like a
  Bad Weather Forecast

  No Fog to Soften
  Tattered Winter Edges or
  Curbside Frozen Trash

  But Night Falls, Clouds Clear,
  Full Moon Lights the Lake. A Passing
  Fox Pauses to Watch

  December 7, 2014
• Fog History Morning Snow Spiritual Trees Tri-ku

  A Morning Fog Floats,
  Quiet as a Silent Prayer,
  Into the Tree Tops

  A Fog That Softens
  All Sight and Sound and Maybe
  All We Think We Know

  Snowflakes Drifting Down,
  Gently as Forgiveness, to
  Shroud Every Sharp Edge.

  November 26, 2014
• Autumn Trees Tri-ku

  
  Yesterday’s Maples
  Were Infused Top to Bottom
  In Every Color

  Today’s Lawns Hold Half
  That Bounty in Pools Like an
  Impressionist’s Dream

  Tomorrow’s Landscape
  Distills all that Hued Movement
  Into Black and White
  

  October 16, 2014
• Birds Grass Home Sky stars Tri-ku

  
  Let Us Go, Then, You
  And I, To The Prairie of
  Tall Grass Taller Trees
  
  Let Us Go Out to
  Blue Sky, Floating Hawks, And All
  The Swooping Swallows

  Yes, Let Us Go To
  Lingering Summer Sunsets And
  All The Stars Beyond.
  

  May 30, 2014
• LIght Memories Night Sky sunlight Tri-ku winter

  
  In Deepest Winter
  Even the Night Sky Freezes
  Turning Slightly Blue

  
  Touch a Match to Wood,
  Light the Fire and Warm the House
  Sparks Fly up the Flue

  
  Cold White Vapor
  Paints That Black Night Sky Like the
  Memory of Sunlight

  January 25, 2014
• Autumn Night Sky Spiritual Tri-ku

  Summer Labors End
  The Sublime He Sets aside
  Godly World Making
  
  And the Divine They
  Seeing That it Is Good They
  Sigh a Divine Breeze
  
  And Sing Her Delight
  In Blue Skies and Brightest Leaves,
  Cool Nights and Warm Days
  

  October 5, 2013
• Distance Mountain Rural Tri-ku

  
  Crossing the High Plains
  I was Unprepared for the
  Religious Training

  
  Cleansed in Molten Shades
  Of Summer Green, Sienna
  Grass and Golden Wheat

  
  I Was Ready
  When the Mountains First Appeared
  For Genuflexion

  September 6, 2013
• Architecture Food LIght Morning Spiritual Tri-ku

  
  The Short Order Cook,
  On Break, Sits by a Window,
  Stares, Rubbing His Jaw

  Morning Sunlight Falls
  In A Single Bright Shaft and
  His Stained Chef’s Whites Glow

  A Small Sacrament
  As If This Light Had Escaped
  From Some Cathedral

  August 23, 2013
• History Memories Mountain Tri-ku

  
  The Dust on My Boots
  Is Grey and Powdery, As
  If Rock Turned to Ash

  All That Heat and Noise,
  Thrown Out Across a Valley
  Now Cooled and Stilled

  Three Weeks On and Still
  Those Boots Show a Memory
  Of Mt. St. Helens

  August 11, 2013
• Death Friends Memories Night Roads Trees Tri-ku

  Chasing Comets with Davi

  
  Two Years of Driving
  This Road In My Mind With You
  Tonight Actually There
  
  Shocking Accident,
  My Presence Now, And Yours Then,
  At The Tree’s Scarred Base
  
  We Both Have Gone On
  But Only I Can Return
  And Wonder Why…
  

  Davi Dohm 1975-2011

  March 14, 2013