Haiku With My Muse
You are my soul mate
With you, I can be mySelf
Together, We Are
© Ken Chawkin
With Sali at Parkview
Sunday, March 17, 2013
See Celebrating Paul Horn and his Contribution to Jazz, World Music, Meditation and Spirituality.
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Haiku With My Muse, Sali, inspired by Paul Horn
March 20, 2013Two spontaneous haiku while talking to Sali
June 17, 2012These two haiku were composed spontaneously while talking to my friend Sali. She’s also my muse, and keeps me, both of us, amused.
I
Our body’s a purse
containing the universe.
Can you spare some change?
II
The bib testifies
to the lunch that was eaten—
Boy, that was good food!
© Ken Chawkin
Fairfield, Iowa
Phrases come out spontaneously while talking with Sali. I count the syllables and realize they make up the first two lines of a haiku, then come up with the third line. Don’t know where they come from, but the juxtapositions make us laugh. The first haiku was composed mid-morning, and the second while feeding Sali her lunch, on Saturday, June 16, 2012. Posted them today, Fathers Day, Sunday, June 17, 2012.
In the Parkview Cave—a tanka for Sali inspired by Sarah during an acupuncture treatment
April 21, 2012In the Parkview Cave
A tanka for Sali inspired by Sarah during an acupuncture treatment
I come to see you
A sanyasin in a cave
Doing her tapas
The transformation is there
Self-contained, blissful, you are
© Ken Chawkin
April 21, 2012
Fairfield, Iowa
My first haiku, Transformed, is appropriate here.
Sali’s Shakti (a two-tanka poem)
March 13, 2012Sali’s Shakti
(a two-tanka poem)
They say your power
Used to shine…from your bright mind
Now…it’s through your heart
From you…flow Beauty and Grace
Love lights…in your eyes and face
How does this happen…
That I love you even more…
You fulfill my heart…
This force that draws…me…to you
Wants to make…a One…from two
© Ken Chawkin
March 12/13, 2012
Fairfield, Iowa, USA
so love tanka
February 18, 2012so love tanka
“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)” — e.e. cummings
you quicken our hearts
(and our eyes start to well up)
saying, i LOVE you!
so precious, so mutual,
so open, so deep, so true!
© Ken Chawkin
February 18, 2012
Fairfield, Iowa
Learning To Let Go
January 1, 2012Learning To Let Go
You’ve been learning to let go
Accepting things as they are
And your bliss is zooming forth
That Being inside of you
It’s so full; it’s so vibrant
You’re becoming who you are
To me you’re the lucky one
But others would not know it
They only see what they see
If it wasn’t for my muse
I’d have no reason to write
This—the soul of the matter
© Ken Chawkin
Talking with Sali, my friend and muse
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Finalized Sunday, January 1, 2012
Fairfield, Iowa, USA
Sweet Haiku for Sali
November 20, 2011Sweet Haiku for Sali
Dancing eyes of light
A smile of pure delight
That’s my Sali gal
© Ken Chawkin
November 19, 2011
Fairfield, Iowa
See: Haiku For Sali, Hoku For Sali, Sally’s Smile (Haiku for Nurse Dan), and Haiku for Sali II and Haiku Muse.
Haiku for Sali II and Haiku Muse
November 20, 2011Haiku for Sali II
Beautiful blue eyes
Soft silky silvery hair
Angel in disguise
Haiku Muse
The job of a Muse? —
Keeping her lover amused
Writing Poetry
© Ken Chawkin
Oct 8, 2011
Fairfield, Iowa
See: Haiku For Sali, Hoku For Sali, Sally’s Smile (Haiku for Nurse Dan), and Sweet Haiku for Sali.
Hoku For Sali
September 24, 2011Hoku For Sali
A Goddess Dwells Within You
And She Is So Beautiful
© Ken Chawkin
September 24, 2011
Fairfield, Iowa
Also see Haiku For Sali and Sally’s Smile (Haiku for Nurse Dan)
Haiku For Sali
September 23, 2011Haiku For Sali
We are true lovers
You are the key that unlocks
The Beauty in me
© Ken Chawkin
September 23, 2011
Fairfield, Iowa
Also see Hoku For Sali and Sally’s Smile (Haiku for Nurse Dan)
