Pears are ripening - PL
TANKA
recorded giggles
from the nearby carnival
echo braggart's joke--
"I'll eat more crawfish than you--
take that trophy to Texas."
[news photo, 6.16.'97]
~~
CINQUAIN
"Typhoon Season"
Who owns
Scarborough Shoals
in the south China sea--
China? the Philippines? Both pull
their ships.
[J. Perlez, NYT, 6.19.'12]
~~
TANKA
wheelbarrow
going places without
leaving home
it also fits the contours
of my tired body
[Hal Borland, Sundial of the Seasons, 6.17. '07]
~~
CINQUAIN
"Jennings Osbourne"
He looked
at everything
the same, whether it cost
twenty-thousand dollars or just
two bucks.
[David Koon, AR Times, 6.16.'12]
~~
TANKA
looking up
from my reading, I see
the red mandevilla
highlighted by morning's sun
and swaying in a slight breeze
[actual, 5. 16. '12]
~~
CINQUAIN
Beside
I-95,
a man holds a woman
tenderly next to their auto
nearby.
[actual, South Carolina, 6. 27. '10]
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