MEMORIAL DAY

-PL

Cameron Cemetery, Salem/Benton (AR)

 

 

 

teaching the lad

about Decoration Day

son spies a turtle

~~

PL, idea from Jay Grelan's column, 5. 26. '05]

 

butterfly alights

on the open haiku book~

Memorial Day

~~

[PL, 5. 28. '01, actual]

 

decorating the graves

that no one's left to visit

gold and crimson leaves

~~

[Dorothy McLaughlin, Somerset, NJ, published in CONNECTING OUR HOUSES, a flip calendar]

 

Memorial Day

her arms full of flags to place

near the headstones

~~

[PL, from a picture, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, published in '03]

 

motor home gone

likely through

Memorial Day

~~

[Dion O'Donnol, from day to day, '02]

 

Decoration Day

waiting motor cars out purr

the sounds of summer

~~

[Dion O'Donnol, from day breaks, '00]