Mutant Iris

Unlike Van Gogh's Irises 

This one has the same color

As the others

The difference is not that striking

But there is something extra

Something most won't notice

Sets it apart

Changes the line forever

©Kiku Koibito  image/poem 2020

Mazel Tov!

Solbourne

An angel folds her wings

So falls into the dawn

To give her glowing to the day

Give all the stars to the sun

Who comes up like bright victory

Not stolen from the sky but won

Gloriously heralded
Night's dark spells undone
Luminous aurora shines
Cold shadows on the run
Endless cycles start again
In warmth and light begun
A sailing moon in rosy clouds
This day won't be outrun





©Kiku Koibito poem/image February 2020

beginnings  glowing
dawn of this day luminous
roseate path light










©Kiku Koibito haiku & image 

Prince of Thieves

Look out upon the world

Child

You can see why our claws grow large

Apex of the chain, no fate of lambs

The chaser, the one to charge

It takes no intelligence to stalk a plant
The cunning and patience are ours
We live by being silent death
Opportunity is never far
Take the dharma with your fangs
Remember who you are







©Kiku Koibito poem 2019  (Internet image)

Gifted

Arise again

Our adventure begins

All creatures astir

Spread wings for the wind

Catch the swift current

Fly with wide fins

Run for pure joy

Sun climbing within

A new gift each day

To ignore it, a sin

©Kiku Koibito poem/image 2019

ICED

The weirding white woman

Has magick'd the fields

With nary a sound at all

The power of the 

Spells she wields

All the world's color

Forstall'd

Eerie and pale
Your breath she steals
Soul from body
Called
Heart crystallized
Your doom she seals
You shatter as you
Fall




©Kiku Koibito poem/image 2019