Every Wednesday at 12noon Lovelorn Poets offers the Lunch-time Missed Connections Haiku Special. Well, for those of you on the east coast it’ll be lunch time. West-coasters will have haiku for breakfast. Maybe someone could try to condense what I just wrote into a haiku! Post a comment or email your ideas to saysomething@lovelornpoets.com.
Pilgrim (Plus A Haiku)
Missed Connections in Manhattan
oh lover, i came to your
skin a pilgrim: barefoot,
humbled. i sought in the
strands of your hair for
meaning, and i traced my
prayers in script down
your bared thighs. in the
lines that brace your lips
and deepen when you sigh,
in the valley behind your
bent knee, oh lover, i
came seeking.
your secrets
are as candles; the flames
shudder to my liturgies.
above us, still and silent,
are the evening stars.
–
Quiet
promise you’ll only
read me in a quiet voice
in quiet places.
