Blogging: 'mums & haiku

plants in for winter

Christmas cactus budding

in late October

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red vine adorning

the bridge abutment--

approach both with care

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after the crows,

small birds jibby & schree

--red honey locust

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ecru over brown

leaves on the trail...…..farther

splashes of orange

~ ~ ~

6:00 a. m.

the cat & I both stretching

toward another day

~ ~ ~

an owl's whoawh

breaking the morning silence

over the deer stand

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c 2018, PL, d/b/a lovepat press, Benton AR USA

Found poems from my readings

--formed from Bob Lancaster's, column, Arkansas Times, Oct.3, 2003
I.
history laughs
at our attempts to corral
it into a text
II.
history
only taught in the school
of hard knocks
III.
old timers
know history
by empathy
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--formed from "Natural Light," an essay by Edw. Hougland, Harper's, Oct 2000

I.

the yellow-throat song

from the raspberry patch

--a pair of beavers

II.

the mink frog's call--

a raven answers

in similar voice

~ ~ ~

--formed from Bill Hall, editorial page editor, Lewiston (ID) Tribune, Oct.1.1999

a mother's knowing--
fury in grown child's worry
speaks to her of love
~ ~ ~

--formed from a letter in Birds & Blooms, Oct/Nov, 2005, p. 46

Mrs.. Cherry's
dilemma--how to keep squirrels
away from her pears
~ ~ ~

--formed from Rick Bragg's, All Over But the Shoutin', several pages, Oct. 29, 2003

I.
"Baby Brother"

never had a name,
making it easier
to forget him (p.67)
II.
much of the Old South's
in books on coffee tables
in Greenwich Village
III.
oscillating fan
blowing flies around
the living room (p.70)
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c 2018, PL d/b/a/ lovepat press, Benton AR USA

blogging: poems of mid-October

CONTEST WINNER
Can you
imagine a
two-thousand, five-hundred-
twenty-eight pound pumpkin? How would
it taste?
~ ~ ~ ~ from ADG's News in brief, 10.1.'18

NEARLY THAT TIME AGAIN
HAMMER,
FARMER, BAPTIST
among election signs
along the highways in Saline
County.
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woodpecker eating

the rest of the abandoned

suet cake

~ ~ ~ ~

A LEAF AND A SPIDER WEB

Oak leaf

caught in a web

dances without a net

or puppet strings. It's a brown bird

flying.

After

a gust of wind

both the leaf and the web

that held it flew off, never to

return.

~ ~ ~ ~

Hearing,

then seeing, a

flock of geese flying west

on this early, first cold snap of

autumn.

c 2018, PL d/b/ lovepat press, Benton AR USA