Thoughtful Haiku

By Robert Barnes

You can control what

You had thought was fate but not

Your thought to change it.

– Robert Barnes lives in Lawrence. Poet’s Showcase features work by area poets. Submit your poetry via e-mail with a subject line of Poet’s Showcase to mpaget@ljworld.com or send submissions to Mindie Paget, 645 N.H., Lawrence 66044, attn: Poet’s Showcase.