Watch Out For Falling Rocks by Dennis Lange

The sign says that rocks may be falling.
A pebble,  a stone could come calling.
…If those, I’m okay,
…But this thought holds sway:
A boulder would be quite appalling!

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photo by Michael and Christa Richerta at http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mXP25De/rockfall+traffic+sign
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© Dennis Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2015.

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Three Rock Haiku by Dennis Lange

Rocky Stream

The stones flow
In a hard river
Past the shore.

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Crafted With Care

Stone mason,
A circled circle –
An artist.

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The Rock Ranks

All armies:
Cold, hard, dead, and stone
In the end.

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Stream – photo by Graham Soult at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mHT0JxO/Texture+-+Cobbles

Crafted – photo by Adrian van Leen at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/mmzRdU0/wheeled+hole+in+the+wall

Ranks – photo by coolhewitt23 at
http://www.rgbstock.com/photo/oCmFCyW/stone+soldiers+fortress

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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, 2015.

 

 

 

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In A Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost

 

…….In A Disused Graveyard

The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead. 

The verses in it say and say:
“The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay.” 

So sure of death the marbles rhyme,
Yet can’t help marking all the time
How no one dead will seem to come.
What is it men are shrinking from? 

It would be easy to be clever
And tell the stones: Men hate to die
And have stopped dying now forever.
I think they would believe the lie.

 

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