Tag Archive: life’s too short – let’s live it


Ci Vediamo

Another 
died last 
night
quietly, 
quite
unexpectedly

one more
tear is all
I have

when there's no one 
more

odd that she spoke
to him just yesterday
after years of not having
spoken

adieu 
dear Arthur

cc: CC 2020 

I Would

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I’d rather be
incredibly high
for one grand night

than to be
just a bit
for a few

© Chagall 2014

Still Some Summer

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The lime-pink houses
along the beach
stand in wait
for the dreamscape,

the laughter of days before storms
took the island
by gale, and nowhere
was alee.

Kites ripped and ditched
on rock, strung out
on waves so close
to shore.

Lonely gulls
bear the cry
of their own.

Though they glide
graceful, silent arcs,
atop salted winds
in updraft.

I miss the barefoot sound
of running on water
when the weary
were rested,

fresh
in steadfast color,

not faded,
heathered,
or torn,

fit to
taut bodies

loathe
to relinquish
the day.

© Chagall, 2013

Haiku For Somewhere Over The Ramparts

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At present I wait
long for arcing shots of fire
life’s arrows’ quiver

© Carlos Chagall, 2013

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