The ballad...By ayaz daryl nielsen--United States

The ballad of our hearts

endowing and inhabiting

touching and melting

two who have met

taking the world in hand

forgetting nothing

forgiving everything

embellishing salt-sweetness

while turning love into ink.

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The cauldron of sunset

Slight rain across the forest

A tree’s calm presence, its roots

deep under the surface of things,

hidden within earthen mold

and a mightier silence

A tree’s calm presence, 

a tree’s calm presence

A mightier silence of earth. 

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ayaz daryl nielsen, veteran, former hospice nurse, ex-roughneck (as on oil rigs) lives in Longmont, Colorado. Editor of bear creek haiku (26+ years/135+ issues) with poetry published worldwide, he also is online at:  bear creek haiku poetry, poems and info