Lotto

What would you do if you won the lottery?

Winning tickets are a big
Draw. Winners posted at
The kiosk, an attraction to
Me, and I'm guessing you
Too. We buy from this guy
Rather than another, luck
Is contagious. We think. 
We are all winners! Yay

Making up

I am making up for lost time 
Time once lost has to be- isn't 
Irretrievable. You just have to
Race to track it down. I wish.
Chasing time like the thief it 
Is, faster, trying to catch up or 
Maybe get ahead of the clock

HAIKUs

Haiku how?

Do I follow form

Or formulary? Is 5 then

Seven and 5 to

End the verse enough?

Or to start it up again?

Do I follow form?

Haiku wow

So short and yet still
So stubborn and insistent.
Do I follow form?

My haiku

Why five, not three, or
Four. Why seven, for me, a
Magic number, not
Nine or eleven or
An even ten an odd one
Not one per se, but
A shorter or a
Longer number like thirteen
Why five, not fourteen?

Why? Am I missing something?

Hardy little coleus

The coleus was 
Strong killed by kindness, then
Neglect, it gave up

Hai-ku with instruction

It's five seven
Five again, have I got it
Right? Syllables wow!

I do really need

Dolly Parton in my life

If anyone ever does

Gather ye rosebuds

While ye may, may you live fully
Pay attention to details, to all big

And little things that make you
Happy and let you capture the
Flowers and smell roses or if ye
Like lilacs, in all their glorious
Pale purple, as fragrant as if they
Were a lusher deeper shade. Just
One more detail to hold in your
Heart. Gather ye rosebuds awhile.

Creativity

How are you creative?

How is it that you of all people are
Creative? You are straightforwardly
Stalwart, not at all a creative type
More typically, perhaps a historian
If only you had memory  to support
Creativity is for the bohemian in our
Midst, the one prone to wearing big
Floppy hats and excess jewelry, the
One drawling sometimes incessantly

For good

Describe a man who has positively impacted your life.

Life's little positives 
A smile, a caress, acts
Of thanks, and grace
The appreciative ones
They show they care
Their care is apparent
And transparent. All
Given freely and from
The heart wherein the
Positive resides and 
Flourishes. It thrives
On energy exchanged
And willed, recognized
And shared like a meal
Or the bike only one
Of you owned, but 
Both used as needed.
It's yours. It's mine. 
Ours together as the
Need arises. We meet
It. Together. Positive.

Secretive

What was the last thing you did for play or fun?

What is the river hiding?
What secret does the
Water hold deep or in
The shallows under the
Cover of rippling eddies?
Or gentle waves in the
Shallows though we 
Know it runs deeper 
Hiding its mysteries in
The shallow waters or
In the middle where it
Deepens as the river
Bed drops, its floor a
Concave of complex
Vegetation and mud