Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Still winter, but hints of spring already: poems


C. Hoggard photo

Three found poems:
IN THE NEWS

Thirteen
Burmese pythons
captured during one week
at a Key Largo refuge. How
scary!
~~

Lifetime
bus pass and two
new canes for the man who
broke his cane defending the bus
driver.
~~

Stopping
the bridge upgrade
after finding an egg
in a hummingbird nest. "Resume
when hatched."
~~

Staring
at a bare oak,
I notice a giant
quarter-rest symbol: a "Z" with
a "C"!
~~

Honey-
bees on the pink
quince blossoms, excited
--it seems--with their new food source, warm
weather.
 I, too,
delight, exult,
and work outside: dig up
monkey grass, trim yarrow and clip
hedgerow.
~~

Robin
flew to the rim,
waded around the rock,
dipped its beak a couple of time,
then flew.
~~
japonica
seems more lush
more pink this year
~~

Fluid,
interactive
art: watching the circles
made by raindrops in the birdbath
water.
~~

Who needs
a Valentine
when leftover fudge squares
are as close as the door of the
freezer?






3 comments:

  1. And I love the photos that accompany the poetry. Nice. Springtime and hope. . . .

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  2. Lovely combination of poems and pictures. Nice imagery. Are you dancing in that last one? Hope so.

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