MID-AUGUST POEMS FROM PAT

 

                                         Hello again. Seems I can't manage to be regular at blogging.

Here are some poems for mid-August from several of my monthly booklets I mail to friends who've expressed an interest in them.

cool, crisp summer nights--

deer sniffing around coolers

in sight of campers 

--from "Connecting Our Houses," a year's flip calendar, '95

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hurricane's wake

more shells in the dune

than on the beach

-- from "It's August Already?" 2003

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the inland cousin

rubbing wet sand into

the jellyfish sting

--from "only sky and sand" 2005

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orange mushrooms 

in the mesh of grass fern

a dragonfly rests

--from "fishing in the clouds" 2010

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overnight

the lilac beautyberries

turn purple

--from "the lighter side of darkness" 2012

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mimicking me

the cat reaching out her paw

as I pass the bed

--from "along the walking trail" 2020

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on Mom's birthday

eating a nectarine

in her memory

--from "all of a sudden" 2021

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"Rain's coming"

the online forecast says

it's only raining leaves

--from "maple leaves sing" 2022

c 2022, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA