TITANIC VIOLIN FOUND!

(for Rob)

The ship slowly sank
While the band played on and on
Hear the violin?

Haiku © 2013 by Dylan Mitchell

We Are Made of Stars

Farrah Fawcett's gone.
Michael Jackson's danced his last:
Two stars in one day.

Haiku © 2009 by Dylan Mitchell

THE STRANGE CASE OF EDWARD GOREY

He was always there
with his cats and bearded men
Gory books of life

Haiku © 2013 by Dylan Mitchell

2012 BEST OF THE NET

James H. Duncan has informed me that he's nominating my poem "Birthday Letter" for the 2012 Best of the Net award. Considering how much respect I have for him and his poetry, I am humbled and honored. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before. And I published my first poem almost thirty years ago!

So I would like to thank James and Hobo Camp Review for making 2012 a most memorable year for me. If you want to read some awesome poetry and prose from the road - feel free to take a long peek:

http://hobocampreview.blogspot.com

My wish is that 2013 will be a happy and productive year for all. Thanks for reading!


BIRTHDAY LETTER

Fall is almost over.
Last night
(although you condemned it),
I read Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters,
and liked it a lot.
After I'd finished,
the soft rain returned,
gently bringing me back
to the hard place I'd escaped from:
I am mending. I am mending.
Yesterday, a kind
stranger spoke to me in the market,
and I did not turn away.
I'm beginning to see it was you.
The old crushed season is almost over;
I'll no longer mourn its early passing.

Poem © 2012 by Dylan Mitchell

HELLO

I want to see the
sea of your eyes
Deep and blue in the
moonlight forever

Poem © 2012 by Dylan Mitchell