Saturday, June 25, 2016

It's hot, but not too hot for short poems

Pool party, July 4, 2015
 
The quintain on 'stars' that garnered an HM in the June PRA monthly:
 
TANKA

star-speckled evening
his tears fall as he buries
his pet kitten, Cal,
hit and killed crossing the road
while we were at campmeeting
~~

The following was published in the Fall 2016 issue of Lucidity Poetry Journal~Online:

UNDER THE OAKS
a Dorsimbra

I've had no luck at growing Shasta whites
despite my dedicated TLC.
Though my friend Jenny's reach to soaring heights,
what Jenny's have that mine don't, I can't see.

             Come on, now, I say
             You were Grandma's favorite.
             Why won't you bloom
             for me?

I visit Jenny, notice daisies' home.
The blooms face east with nothing in their way.
Aha! Mine lack the sun! No wonder that
I've had no luck at growing Shasta whites.
~~

photo by C. Hoggard




Friday, June 10, 2016

Flowers of summer: poems


begonias and moss rose
alongside blooming grasses
in the roadside bed
~~

eve of summer~~
I plant marigolds
where the pansies died
~~

bereavement lily~
its orange fallout
blessing me
~~

daytime: inside
an Easter lily's throat
a firefly
~~

a yellow tulip
the fallout of its soot
already sprinkled
     ~~from Saul Bellow
~~

kitten
pawing at the bumblebee
on the abelia
~~

while honeysuckle
blooms, you won't see
hummingbirds: my son
~~
among
sawmill machinery
blackeyed Susans
~~

Friday, June 3, 2016

Right now, it's raining (Friday, 6:30 pm)

This photo is NOT of my area, but it was someone's at one time
 
siren still sounding
rain still falling --I'm
still outside writing
[6:21 pm Friday/ today]
~~~
 
rain can't keep the Sunset
down . . . busing Amtrakers
between stations
[from the news, 1997]
~~~
 
turning on the trail:
recycle truck won't take wet papers
and it's thundering
[2001, Arkadelphia]
~~~
 
Easter
lilies in front
of the yarrow bloom white--
a sign of surrender from all
the rain?
[2014]
~~~
 
WHOSE LAW?
Rain drops
in the birdbath!
I rush out with car keys
to put up the windows. Then the
drops stop.