A Haiku Sequence

chocolate delights—
the sweet taste of your lips
lingers all night

this Valentine’s eve
I’ll have no other sweets—
the day is long

an east wind blows
the nectar of your scent
fills my being

my eyes overflow
with your dark beauty
Spring dream

Ecstasy—
cherry blossoms, you
and chocolate

Copyright © 2011 John Daleiden

“A Box of Confections for Debbie”, first appeared in Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 1. The New Writers would like to thank the publishers of Sketchbook for allowing re-publication in Dream Weaving.

John Daleiden lives in Phoenix, Arizona in the Sonoran Desert. He is a 43 year veteran teacher of secondary Language Arts classes in Iowa public schools. His work has appeared in Amaze # 9, World Haiku Review: The Poetrybridge, Lynx, SP Quill Magazine, May Dazed, The Scorched Earth, Full Moon, Temps Libres – Free Times, Autumn Leaves, Sketchbook, Ribbons, Fire Pearls, and other e-zines. John has served as webmaster and an editor for the e-zine, Sketchbook: A Journal for Eastern and Western short forms since the first issue in October 2006.

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