Thursday, May 23, 2019

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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c 2019 PL, dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA


4 comments:

  1. Love the poems and memory pictures.

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  2. How sweet...love the quatrain best. Thank you.

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  3. Congratulations to your good looking grandchildren! As always, I love your poetry.

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  4. Lovely poems. Thanks for sharing your pictures. Yes, Eureka Springs is quirky but I enjoy its quirkiness. We never seem to get caught up on the yardwork around here. I only have a few more days to plant my sunflower seeds. Wish me luck.

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