Day by day: a week's worth of (mostly new) poems

March 22 -

CINQUAIN
Our man
Blagojevich
will lose his signature
black helmet hair while in prison.
No dyes.
(from a news article)
~~~

March 21 -

HAIKU
after the rain
the irises drooping
the dogwood a-bloom
~~~

March 20 -

HAIK-SEN
the hot-air balloon
with the pilot still inside
sucked into storm clouds
(from a news article)
~~~

March 19 -

SENRYU
"Bath on your birthday!"
(muffled, beneath his covers)
"Five more minutes, please."
(2003- grandson's 13th b.d.)
~~~

March 18 -

HAIKU
outside, reading
later, oak catkins
clinging to my robe
~~~

HAIKU
tornado
"melting back into the clouds"
after ten miles a-ground
(from a news article)
~~~

CINQUAIN
Iris
blossoms above
fading vintage jonquils
that kept their puffy yellow
till now.
~~~

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