Happy Not-My-Own-Religion Holiday

"Haiku Greeting Cards For All Occasions"

as you celebrate
your wrong religious beliefs
I'm happy with you

No Visible Marks

poet
what made you a poet

what made you pause

in the middle of an otherwise ordinary life

and made you stop

to smell the roses

and write it down

what terrible farce

of the frailties of human existence

did you witness

or did you play a forced role

no one could possibly imagine

so you recorded it

for humanity's sake

for your own sake

to assure yourself you were still grounded

and not swept up in the madness all around you

are your words

an unleashed warning

to the innocent

rhetorical questions
in poetry

never require question marks

as you know
fellow poet

Self-Orienteering

forget GPS

go outside and just get lost
find yourself within

Not All Poems Have A Title

not all poems rhyme

not all haiku have a season word

not all smiles are returned