Bright Moments – 2 haiku by Dennis Lange

 

 

Bright Moments

Yes, mostly
That’s the way it is:
Life sparkles.

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Not sometimes.
And when it doesn’t –
Next sunrise!

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photo by Alex Bruda at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/nELxIAo/sunny+lake

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* The haiku I write are lines of 3-5-3 syllables instead of 5-7-5.

See Haiku article here for explanation, if needed: https://thebardonthehill.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/haiku/

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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2013.

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I Never Knew A Night So Black by John Kendrick Bangs

I never knew a night so black
Light failed to follow on its track.
I never knew a storm so gray
It failed to have its clearing day.
I never knew such bleak despair
That there was not a rift, somewhere.
I never knew an hour so drear
Love could not fill it full of cheer!

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photo by Adrian van Leen at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mD5VT1q/storm+shadows

 

 

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Optimism by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Talk happiness.  The world is sad enough
Without your woes.  No path is wholly rough;
Look for the places that are smooth and clear,
And speak of those, to rest the weary ear
Of Earth, so hurt by one continuous strain
Of human discontent and grief and pain.

Talk faith.  The world is better off without
Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.
If you have faith in God, or man, or self,
Say so.  If not, push back upon the shelf
Of silence all your thoughts, till faith shall come;
No one will grieve because your lips are dumb.

Talk health.  The dreary, never-changing tale
Of mortal maladies is worn and stale.
You cannot charm, or interest, or please
By harping on that minor chord, disease.
Say you are well, or all is well with you,
And God shall hear your words and make them true.

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