
#Haiku: Confession
First step –
Hard step –
Acknowledge failure.
Open
Emptily –
To receive.

#Haiku: Confession
First step –
Hard step –
Acknowledge failure.
Open
Emptily –
To receive.

#Haiku;
Taming Hateful Mind
Can’t hate
Your way to
Happiness,
Poison path finds no Peace;
Rage clouds
Choice.

#Haiku: Reincarnation
Are souls
Transferable? Is
Flesh loaned –
Hungry spirits
Questing for home?

#Haiku: Self-defined
Blind smack of spore
From roots and core
Germ flies high;
Poets cry
I, I, I!

#Haiku: Subterfuge Inc.
Ruse patrol:
Dissimulating –
Saboteuse –
Guerilla guest –
C’est moi.

#Haiku: Mastering Meditation
Experience
Intimidates.
Silence sees –
Compassion
Understands

#Haiku: Pupa Pluperfect
Somnolescent
Caterpillars
Dream deep – the
Language of Butterflies

#Haiku: The Emotional Archive
Sun withdraws;
Cry. Heat swells –
Sing. Intent
Blooms. Journaling honors
Life pulse.
by Alysse Aallyn

#Haiku: Overthinking
Brain heats up
Smoke blurs eyes
Complications threaten –
Solutions
Vanish

Chapter 20 – The End
We flew to a hotel at LaGuardia,
Called Derek, whose father suggested
Vince Tromwell. He got
Mirabel immunity as long as she told
“the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”
and after they tested the shirt and the knife
Verne even confessed –
If you call taking an Alford plea –
(Which legally means “You got me”) –
Confession. Verne got forty years
On each count with deportation
Instead of parole.
Mom and Dad didn’t mind
Having a yoga teacher in the family –
They both started yoga –
I admit I did too –
That’s what big sisters are for;
They go through everything first
So you don’t have to.
We get to be writers, we
The little sisters
Poets and thinkers of all the peaceful
Afternoons; assessing, not
Regressing, savoring even
The upside down moments
Right side up and
Passing them to history.
It worked on everyone but Mr.
Mowgley, English teacher,
Who said;
“Shouldn’t you write this
In the third person voice
To gain some distance?”
I said, “Never.
I’m Richenda Marshott, only me and
I’ll never pretend to be
Anyone else.”