Friday, July 18, 2014

Ayaz Daryl Nielsen- Two Poems


terrorku

her sewing basket
a collection of
orphan eyeballs

early morning coffee
and the usual 
emailed death curse

ant antennae
feeling for missing
back legs

locked ward
hides my shadow
hides my claws

full moon
blood cousins and I
hunt as a pack

this time,
tired of the same old
she lets me live



Contemplating an Unknown

Our computers have no records of your
shattered starship’s design nor where
it was built.  We have no data about 
your species.  Dying alone on an 
uncharted moon...acidic mists
from surface craters were a
sudden death, even if you 
survived an obviously 
brutal crash landing  
Your remote home...
you may have been
their hero, perhaps
even their savior...
there is sadness.
There is this sorrow.
I’ll never know your name



ayaz daryl nielsen, husband, father, veteran, x-roughneck (as on oil rigs)/hospice nurse, editor of bear creek haiku (25+ years/120+ issues), homes include Lilliput Review, Jellyfish Whispers, Eye On Life, Shamrock, UFO Gigoglo, and! bearcreekhaiku.blogspot.com (translates as joie de vivre)

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