Archive for September, 2006

Dopplegangers in the JetBlue Terminal

September 9, 2006

That guy is Peyton Manning
and over there is the singer
from the Barenaked Ladies.
In that rocking chair
is the guy who was in
that television show, remember?
And the woman by the window
used to ask, "where’s the beef?"

But there’s no Heidi Klum,
no Sela Ward, not even
Bo Derek from days gone by.

I wonder if, from over there
looking this way,
I look like anyone at all.
Is anyone trying to figure me out
other than me?

(c) bgfay for Poetry Thursday

Haiku: Solitude

September 4, 2006

dark september night
a prayer offered at bedside
to the sleeping child

white waves crash the shore
washing away the remains
of children’s castles

yellow leaves and green
quietly whisper autumn
to September wind

(c) 2006 bgfay for One Deep Breath
also submitted to The Still in the Stream Contest