Suzanne Hayasaki Poems

Love comes when you least expect it
Like a kitten at your window on a rainy day
Scraggly and mangy and mewling.
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Shall I compare you to a desert horse?
You are as sturdy and as without a name.
Hot winds do parch and from my throat do force
Entreaties for a cool life-giving rain.
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Imagine if we imagined God
In the image of a woman
Instead of an angry man
Demanding vengeance and allegiance and strength.
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Looking out this winter window
At white snow dusting green leaves
I sit and contemplate nature
And my artificial place on it.
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There is something sexy
About a gentleman.
The way he treats you with respect.
The way he doesn't expect you
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Talk To Me

Sit with me in the shade of this tree.
Tell me who you were, who you are,
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If I were Frost, I would walk the less-traveled path.
If I were Thoreau, I would go and live deliberately.
If I were Basho, I would travel the narrow road.
If I were Eliot, I would seek out muttering retreats.
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There are as many realities
As there are drops of rain
In a sudden summer shower,
Catching the light and refracting it
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Ever ask a bee who his God is?
If you did, he would say “We are.”
Ever ask him, “Yes, but who is in charge? ”
“Do you have a king? ”
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Isn't it funny how light changes our perception?
How dull rust leaves transform into crystal claret
When a beam of light finds its way to them -
Catching our eye as they seem to come alive?
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