Three haikus

• It's been a bad day. / I am not in a hurry / to go home and weep.
• That previous haiku / came to me while driving home / in the pouring rain.
• Something's happening. / My poor brain must be crazy. / Three haikus today!

Diamond

I had been toying with this idea for a poem for months now but for some reason was finally compelled to sit down and tap out these verses in the wee hours of this morning.

To JCM, who art perfect in thy perfection

Diamond

From the moment

I first beheld thee, thou hast

bewitched me with the brilliance of thy soul:

What blazing fire, what forces, what skilledHands

did fashion thee to peerless perfection, my beloved Jewel?

Thou art the reason for the enraptured song in my tormented soul,

inflamed by the Radiance made resplendent through thy manifold facets!

Yet thou art the reason for unspeakable agony, for did I not bear witness whilst

thou didst endure the needless scourge that shattered thee and compelled thee to tears?

Although Fate hath with Its unfathomed reason deigned to confide to me one flaw

within thy depths, long transformed by time and thy defiance of the Dark,

Thou shalt remain my most cherished and rarest of treasures,

mounted for eternity upon the fading crown of my being,

And above all be missed when in all certitude

I shall be bereft of thy light

by Another.

An iPhone in hand, music on the road and a chance meeting

• Handling an iPhone --not mine, just a friend's--and using the awesome touchscreen. Drool! It's definitely going onto my wish list--and will probably stay there forever.
• Not minding getting stuck in traffic while listening to soothing classical music being played over the radio.
• Running into Joel after running errands after office hours. He's sitting in his Revo parked at the Admin Building parking lot cooling off --he had the engine running to keep the aircon on!--and invites me in for a chat. We end up talking for nearly an hour.