Mila dela Rosa's Haiku

HAIKU on LOVE

by

Mila Dela Rosa
Last updated: February 27, 2010


new year's eve--
i wait for next year
one champagne glass

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new year's day--
i sit on the couch
a scent of old spice

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new year's day--
she looks around
her thoughts elsewhere

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winter night--
his soft whisper
warms my body

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winter night--
warm bodies shift
to right, to left

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past midnight--
i toss and turn
wedding dress on the wall

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red carnation
i see it now
in his lapel

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winter morning--
she sits by the window
snow-covered tire tracks

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winter's end--
water flows downstream
from melted snow

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winter's end--
his promises burried
in deep snow

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dawn--
thin mist touches my face
at Sagada greenfields

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new year
new job
dusty luggage

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mid-january rain--
leaping through puddles
in high heeled shoes

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lying side by side
tangled fingers understand
quiet moonless night--

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on bended knees
he asks for her hand
spring flowers in bloom

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mid-summer night--
he looks up
her shadow on tinted glass

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his and her body
mold as one
old spanish guitar--

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dawn--
warm lips touched my face
his shadow moving away

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dawn--
his rhythmic breathing i feel
on my nape

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Valentine's day--
red rose on my pillow
after he's gone

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Valentine's day--
one by one she touches
five red roses

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last train ride--
he goes home yearning
for her embrace

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from Afghanistan--
he caresses me
his rifle forgotten

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sundown--
I watch him come
in hurried strides

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after long winter--
following the stony path
I see him coming

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her wedding day--
marching with mom
where's dad, she wonders