Thursday, June 18, 2015

Blogging about some scenes and such - poems

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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