Thursday, June 27, 2013

Poems of the season














 

Haiku
two strands of web
move in the wind
shine in the sun
~~~~

the rising sun
in its huge redness
now in my camera
~~~~

Cinquain

"Early summer; early morning"

Watered:
cussed the cheap green
hose that kinked every time
I pulled it farther from the far
faucet.
~~~~

3 Campmeeting observations

Mama
is smiling down
to see--on the mourners'
bench--a bouquet of her hydrangea
blossoms.
~~~~

We park
where cabins stood
a century ago.
Now, the only vestige is a
dug well.
~~~~

Sawdust
floor is no more:
concrete the answer for
those with allergies, flip-flops and
sandals.
~~~~








Thursday, June 20, 2013

Poetic Miscellany--plus a tad of fancy

SENRYU

two months later
my breakfast table still full
of tax documents
~~~

a jumble of letters
yet my aged mother
"worked" the day's crossword
~~~

enough gas
for ten more miles
I stop at Ten Mile
~~~

first graduation
in the family ... Goodwill
tag on his new shoes
~~~

chopping
a red fingernail
into the onions
~~~

water and vineroot
to the ailing child
under the Duru tree
~~~

a man named LOVE
on the deadbeat dad
flyer
~~~

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Mostly about cats

Greye (foreground) and Boots
 
Haiku
 
mockingbird
hassling puss-named-Boots
who's too close for comfort
~~~
 
kitten scampers
to old tomcat Greye, then
thinks better of it
~~~
 
a bird on the gutter--
seeing the cat below,
it flies
~~~
 
the two kittens
ignoring Mom's moving tail
play with each other
~~~
 
Cinquain
 
"Children First at the Food Bowl"
 
After
her kittens eat,
Mother takes her turn. Oops,
babies aren't through. Again, she waits
a turn.
~~~
 


Thursday, June 6, 2013

New journal, new porch position, new poems

Couchwood porch--facing east
 
on the same day
finishing one journal
beginning another
 
 
The new journal, a Mother's Day gift from daughter Annamarie, measures 9 x 7 inches. It will hold a lot of stuff.
 
June 5
summer's heat
finally kicks in
 
 
 I change
my morning seat
from swing to molded chair
so I can see the hydrangeas,
lilies.
 
A short wooden stepladder (flea market find) serves as a coffee mug holder, and a metal card-table chair (a second-hand purchase) serves--with pillows added--as a table for the journal.
 
Beyond
the emerging
hydrangeas' blue, purple
and pink blooms are coreopsis,
lilies.
 
Easter
lilies--long past
this year's early Easter--
finally bloom, showing their bright
faces.
 
after blooming,
old wisteria sends  runners
into the air.
 
Facing
the north, I can
watch trees--pecan, walnut,
maple, locust, holly--move in
the breeze.