Sunday, January 31, 2021
A long-ago Abecedarian poem by Billy Paulus
Friday, January 1, 2021
Poems for January 1 from 1997 - 2021
Friday, December 11, 2020
Blogging: Poems from December 11's haiku booklets/ calendar
hidden under hosta/ till after the freeze/ --Easter egg - Connecting Our Houses
took no hostess gift--/ she thanked me with a bottle/ of homemade wine - poems for December
blowing bubbles/ at primary school corner/ balding policeman - dynamic December
picking up/ everything on my list/ even without it - in front of the moon
a year later/ tossing the holiday card/ from a former friend - a branch of red leaves
a Greek connection/ 3 students die & 5 hurt/ over alcohol - rising to the top
one more comic strip/ has slipped into the archives/ Bill Keane's passing - where to set the tree
fall cleaning/ taking the rake/ to his room - breaking the ice
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Autumn: Theme and Variations - poems
THEME AND VARIATIONS
Theme
A TRAVELER'S MEDITATION
(Amphion pattern)
God's handiwork is all around:
Bright red leaves,
Wheat in sheaves,
Fertile farms where flock abound;
Shaded cows
chew and drowse;
Mountains' multi-colored dress;
Thunderclouds
draped in shrouds:
God's bounteous works are limitless.
Neville pattern
in scarlet, yellow leaves
and golden wheat in sheaves.
Sun-burnished pasturelands abound;
leafy groves shading cows
that switch and chew and drowse.
God's goodness--in all life--profound.
Neville
bronzed stands of wheat in sheaves;
sun-burnished pastures, fragrant air;
umbrellaed groves whose boughs
shade drowsy brindle cows--
creation's annual fall affair.
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Blogging: Poems about nature's animal and bird beings
Blackcap
the only one
to visit the feeder
while I'm sitting near by social
distanced.
~ ~ ~ ~
OH, NO YOU DON'T!
The long-
unseen chipmunk
accesses the steep steps
of the south porch. From the swing, I
dissuade.
~ ~ ~ ~
A squirrel
heads this way till
I call "nyah!" It turns back
and disappears, waiting till I
go in.
~ ~ ~ ~
When I
notice a bird
bathing, I smile. Living
with respect and care for nature's
beauties.
~ ~ ~ ~
a crow
carrying off
the thrown-out corncob
~ ~ ~ ~
WATCHING? WAITING?
Not quite
back in the house
from filling the feeder
when I see a gray chickadee
fly in.
~ ~ ~ ~
SLEEPY?
A long
time between sips--
What does the robin think,
see, wonder about, cogitate
over?
~ ~ ~ ~
Ah! Pool
all to myself.
Though it's cooler today
than it has been, it's okay, says
blackcap.
~ ~ ~ ~
c 2020, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA
Saturday, September 5, 2020
Already September? Where has this year gone? POEMS
inside and out,
cloudy, rainy, humid.
Early September; seasonal
changes.
Quiet
disturbed by sounds
of rain on gardenia
leaves outside the open window:
darkness.
~ ~ ~
opening
before my eyes--
pot of purslane
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