Haiku exercise
Claire

1:

Drop, drop; run, don’t stop

Small darts attack from above

The rain chases you

2:

Tiger lily hair

Burns against the grey, wet clouds

Your smile glows brighter

3:

Tree’s roots grip the ground

Baring teeth, it fights the wind

Shining armor bark

4:

Wind chills the air with

Fury, dances between rain

Calms then clears the storm

5:

Perfect arch up high

Bears the sky in its wide arms

Clouds ride piggyback

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oh, a poetry reading!
Claire
(based off the poem Beginning by James Wright)

End

The rain whispers songs in my dreams.
It rouses me, calling.
Waken.
Listen.
I open my eyes, walk to the window, touch my nose to
The frosty pane.
The drops dance as they dive, glittering in my sight
For an instant, disappearing before i can memorize any one,
Dying before I can blink.
I stare out through the glass, frozen in my room.
Release your breath.
Come.
Those liquid crystals desert the clouds that harbored them,
And i join their freedom fall.

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rearrangeable lines
Claire

He lives on,

but the past no longer exists––

he’s there, but unreachable; he looks at me, then walks away.

The light shimmers down through the clouds and scintillates off the water;

it suddenly erupts like a vile volcano, poison rejected from inside.

Love always hurts, but it can be worth the pain;

it blooms only at night.

Smile artificially, smile genuinely, smile perpetually:

they say practice makes perfect.

I am beautiful because I’m imperfect.

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