Haiku central

Feeling creative? Want to share your poetic genius? Send your haiku to local writer and psychologist Steve Brody at stevebrody@wildblue.net by Monday, June 6, and yours could be in the next haiku Artifacts column. The last four below are Steve’s.

Day of rest ended

New thought, right                   action again

Recreate the world

—Steve Burgess,
Santa Maria

Breath of golden light

morning lake now shimmering

bathes us in color

—Mary Anne Anderson, Cambria

It happens to me

standing by the water’s
         edge

wings, soar, surrender …

—Deborah Heartwood, Pismo Beach

Late winter rains fall,

Inundate streams and
         wetlands,

Kayaks, ducks float by.

—John E. Reid, Atascadero

The first raindrops fall.

Mother Nature eyes
         the hills,

Takes out her green
         paint.

—Katherine Ottrando, San Luis Obispo

Embodiment of

God, create reality

In every moment!

—Scott Whitfield, Redwood City

Lynn toddles ahead,

Checking back with mom
         and dad,

Gone for twenty years.

Forcing them to pose,

Dad snaps the family
         moment.

He couldn’t miss it.

Overwhelmed by
         thought,


Sean’s analytic mind
         had


Reason to worry.

Stanley couldn’t hear


A tree fall in the forest,

Let alone his wife.

This article appears in May 19-26, 2011.