Haiku Poetry by Tracy

Index to Haiku Poems by Tracy Marks
All poems were created collaboratively from a haiku seed at Boston.com's year 2000 haiku site from May - November 2000. Here, someone wrote the first 5 syllable line of a haiku and participants completed it with a 7 syllable and a 5 syllable line. In many of the poems below, Tracy did not write the first line, but wrote the second and third lines.
*Nature*	*Earth and Sky*	*Relationship*
*Communication*	*Pain, Sadness*	*Desire and Fulfillment*
Joy, Celebration, Playfulness	*Personal Experience*	*Guidance*
*Observations and Commentaries*	*Literary Allusions*	Politics, Election, News
*Computers and Internet*	Harry Potter	*Writing Haiku*

Nature
Can you tell me why the wind brushes me purple when it cries with spring?	A butterfly's wings soft and fragile, like my heart, Also born to fly
Pebbles on the beach Painful stepping with my feet. What price - the summer?	In fury I sought to outrun the wind, but I Scattered, like pollen
When the willows weep When the palm trees sway and dance I will remember	I look to the stars Thumbtacks in a black felt hat... Who holds up the sky?
touched by spirit wind caressed by tree song, embraced by warm sunlit days	touched by spirit wind tempered by the silent sound approaching winter
Finally, autumn Leaves turning gold and crimson, Maples in my soul.	Empty trees, bare bones My soul mourns the falling leaves The bleeding colors
Empty trees, bare bones Dancing skeletons caper Hear the howling wind.	He leapt on dried leaves crisp and brittle under foot, crumbling at his touch
Empty trees, bare bones My soul will enter winter. Trusting in the spring	Trees stand stark, naked Unafraid of winter's cold, Trusting in the spring.
bent before the wind a shrub, too young to have known so many winters.	bent before the wind stunted by the winter squawls far too many storms
green she is, and wild, like kudzu, spraying her seed, a tangle of limbs.	calling to the sea soothe me with your wash of waves sing me ocean songs.

Earth and Sky
earth pulls at my feet "ground me, ground me," Gaia speaks. let go of the sky	Beam me up, Scotty Earth, third planet from the sun Was never my home
memories of earth from my standpoint in the sky somewhere, solid ground	Unwilling mystic You stand upside down, your feet Planted on the sky
Unwilling mystic If only gravity could Send you earthward bound.	Unwilling mystic Seeking to embrace the earth, Beckoned by the skies.

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