Amid the human cacophony, the need for stillness - POEMS

Photo by C. Hoggard

just before sunrise

a flock of birds

breaking the stillness

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waking

to the stillness of a phone

that doesn't ring

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still summer morning

whirr of a hummingbird

purr of the cat

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the stillness

of the morning

and then the bluejay

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These are my poems included in Season's Greeting Letters - 2017, a world-wide publication of only haiku and tanka, collected and published by Mohammed H. Siddiqui, Baltimore. Each year, he mandates a theme, and poets can submit as many poems as they wish, before June 30 each year. If interested, contact me for further details. 

Photo by N. Ziegler, Oak Ridge. A garden in memory of his wife and my aunt, Arlene