Poem ...

Your toes leave small dimples in the sand

That the water takes away

And carries to some foreign shore

Another time, another land.

Your words express my thoughts unspoken

Words that hide inside by day

That lurk behind half-opened doors

And when formed are always broken.

... and some haikus and tankas ...

 You are sleeping now
I silently lie with you
Breathing the same air

Love surrounds us both
Like a sheltering cocoon
We are safe within

Looking at the moon
I am jealous just because
It's looking at you

Your girlish giggles
Light up your youthful face
Your soft perfect lips
Yield passionately as I
Kiss them over and over

I haiku ... do you?
Just try it, you know, and zen
I'll haiku again.

... and a limerick that I wrote on a particularly boring night shift performance testing at AA

There's not much to see here right now -
The data continues to flow.
If that didn't rhyme,
It's no fault of mine,
But the spelling of English, you know.