Hooray for our country! May it ever remain a democratic republic! Poems

Between/bursts of fireworks, /distant thunder rumbles. / At dusk--no matter what--night bugs/still sing. //

Our house/ surrounded by/ the loud sounds of fireworks. / I sit and read, the cat's hiding/ somewhere. //

Fireworks/ fading at ten-/ thirty. It's about time! / Surely these daddies have to go/ to work.

Only/ the animals/ hide from the booms & blats/ of fireworks. Feline Greye's under/ the couch. //

Untouched/ by either sound, / smell, colors, oohs-and aahs/ of fireworks' displays, the sky still / surrounds. //

c 2024, PL, dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

BEFORE MAY GETS AWAY . . . POEMS

 

HAIKU

windows blown out

but a glass lamp collection 

still on its shelf ('08)

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cedar waxwing

feasting from a limb

of holly berries ('12)

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close to the wall

carrying their children

through rising waters ('99)

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rooster

adding to early morning

birdsong ('09)

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tornado takes all

except 

two of three kittens ('97)

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Memorial Day weekend

Sunday's paper comes

on Saturday night ('22)

c 2024, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

Mid-March poems

 saplings

standing

in violets

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woodpecker

at the feeder

chased off by a jay

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constant music:

windchimes

during March

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red petunias

in the daffodil bed

wintered over

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on the Ides of March

a day-long rain

washing away winter

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with the bulldozer

next door, it's hard to hear

the mockingbirds, jays 

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yard black with birds

leaving bird by bird

(some not yet ready)

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