Thursday, March 30, 2017

A spring day in cinquains-March 30 '17

Lenten Roses - photo by Uncle Norval Ziegler, Oak Ridge, TN

I. I hear
doves from across
the road. Cardinals--from
behind me--chitter. Cool after
the storm.

II. & III. Mocker
eats from the new
suet cake on a limb
of the still-bare beautyberry.
Red bird

against
the blue metal
feeder has trouble with
perching peg. I need to fill both
feeders.


IV. A large
red-headed wood-
pecker at the suet
cake until I moved to take a
photo.

V. Pink bloom
of azalea
falls onto the growing
hosta's heart. They nestle nicely.
I smile.

VI. "Please God, no fatalities"
Siren
sounding frantic
on vehicle headed
west on the freeway. Now, the air
is still.

VII. "Cloudy, but bright"
No lights
in the sky, but
plenty around. Grounded
nightlights abundant in neighbors'
acres.

VIII. "Easy to read"
With two
floodlight bulbs, my
"patio" area
is bathed in enough light that I
can write.

IX. "Contentment"
I sit
outside at night.
The yard light shows a red
bougainvillea newly blossomed.
I sigh.

THE END

Friday, March 24, 2017

Spring subjects in poems

Son Eric's day lily

Privet,
honeysuckle,
thick layer of gray leaves
cleaned from Grandmother's bed of day
lilies.

New ones
from a daughter
who needed to thin hers
wait to go from bucket to ground
quickly--

a three generation
effort to plant beauty
and provide solace at this pet
graveyard.
~~~~( 2014-PL)





DO YOU SUPPOSE?
I swear
I heard a bird
mocking my daily call:
"Kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty!"
today.
~~~~ (2015 - PL)


neighbor's
wandering terrier
rests by my brush pile
~~~~ (2015-PL)

bumblebee
in the hydrangeas
crow calls from the sassafras
~~~~ (2014 PL)

Two white
irises bloom
apart from the prepared
bed. Lesson? There is joy outside
some groups?
~~~~ (2014 PL)





Sunday, March 5, 2017

Haiku written in March from 1998 - 2014

1998
the Matterhorn
emerging into sunlight
stopping my breath
~~
1999
mail delivery route--
the same road every day
but always different

a woodpecker
at the feeder
chased off by a jay
~~
2003
eve of his 13th
grousing and grumbling
over nothing

below the mesa
a running colony
of wind turbines
[from Jenn Hansen]
~~
2004
above the clouds
a whole different universe
is this like heaven?
~~
2009
crows'
courting cries in the dead leaves
on the hillside

blue jay
alone at the feeder
eating rejected seeds
~~
2014
strewing birdseed
on the thick layer of ice
tiny flakes of snow
~~
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