Spring means graduations, flowers, yardwork: POEMS

                       Grandson in a crape myrtle years ago, graduated from high school last week.

a passing truck

painted like a zebra

--this quirky town

(Eureka Springs, '15) 

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                                                          Coreopsis and purple jew

QUATRAIN

Did Mama ever pray

when her children drove away 

"Dear Lord, they're yours now,

please keep them in your way."?

(April '11)

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                                                    Another grandson many years ago

the only thing

you will leave 

is what you create

(Tom Padgett on Wallace Stevens. Lucidity retreat, 2004)

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                       Older son with granddaughter who graduated from high school last week.

CINQUAIN

After

yesterday's wind

and rain, today's roadside

fields of mustard brighten the gray

landscape.

(Hwy 35 to Tull, April '19)

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                                                                  Google image.

THREE DAYS' PAPERS UNREAD

Resting

from yesterday's

frustrations, noggin-bump,

kin's graduation and a long

trip home.

(5. 17. '19)

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