Gee! Mid-November! How time flies: poems

 SENRYU

car keys & cell phone

always in my pants pockets

--the basket of food

~ ~ ~ ~

SENRYU

my writing table

piled as  high as the dishes

in the kitchen sink

~ ~ ~ ~

HAIKU

east, west, north & south

birds bathing

in November sun

~ ~ ~ ~

CINQUAIN

We prayed

for rain. And soon,

our prayers were answered, and

answered . . .and answered. We daren't take

prayers back.

~ ~ ~ ~

FOUND SENRYU

IRONY!

state's drug director busted 

for D. W. I 

(editorial, 11. 25. '02)

~ ~ ~ ~

c 2025, Pat Laster dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

October already? Here're some poems

 

Looking

up just in time

to watch a lone red leaf

drifting, adding to the autumn

carpet.   ['12]

Mother

birds--like mothers

of all kinds and stripes--like

clean water to drink, and also

to bathe.['22]

From an

open door, I

see pink azaleas.

From a window, the white torch of

yucca. ['21]

Puzzles

and Perspective

on the porch swing, despite

the sometimes gusty and cooling

breezes. ['22]

Even

the older cats

want inside. Are they spooked

by the artificial pumpkins

nearby? ['12]

Blue jay

and mockingbird

sipping from the rain-filled

birdbath on this cool October

morning. ['19]

c 2025, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

NEW POEMS SINCE LAST WE MET

 

POEMS WRITTEN SINCE LAST WE MET

June 22:           

HOW CAN THAT BE?

Three bombed

facilities

considered by Admin

a de-escalation? How can

that be?

 

COFFEE BREAK

Leaving

the office with

one mug, returning with a

a different one. Why? Why not? We

take turns.

 

HEAT ADVISORY

Second

day of summer,

a massive heat wave engulfs

the Midwest & Central Plains. Temps?

90s.

 

July 3

 

SENIOR MOMENT

Leaving

the printer on

overnight after print-

Ing a PRA monthly “Fall”

poem.

 

July 4

 

WORKING OUTSIDE

Fatigue

gives me much more

patience with the ever-

slow computer to bring up my

emails.

 

 

 

 

July 9

 

89^th birthday

smoothing the tissue

adorning her gifts

(senryu)

 

July 11

 

GOOD INTENTIONS

Vowing

to weed-eat this

morning before it got

too hot. Alas! When I awoke?

Too hot!

 

July 12

 

TRUTH OR SCARE?

“Heavy

Rain” the task bar

claims. But from the window,

no indication. Perhaps while

I nap.

 

c 2025, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

Then, it was March; now it's JUNE!!!.

 

6.8. '23, # 174

A DAY IN SPRING --a Sonnette

While trav'ling through the yard on this June day,

I had a thought: pick only one of each

the blooming plants: a coneflower of peach,

a rose, rose campion--a nice bouquet,

with honeysuckle, yarrow's whitish hue.

I snip a coreopsis bloom, then reach

--a stretch--to break a branch of Wand'ring Jew.

~ ~ ~ ~

6.6. '25, # 84

HAIKU

hummingbird

taking long swigs

from the plastic bloom

~ ~ ~ ~

6.6. '25, # 85

SENRYU

sprinkling . . .

re-reading D-Day story

with gratefulness

~ ~ ~ ~

6. 6. '25, # 86

CINQUAIN

" What to call this roadside bed?"

Let's see.

Shall I call it

the Bermuda-iris

bed? Or add 'rotting bulb foliage'

to it?

~ ~ ~ ~

c 2025 by Pat Laster dba lovepat press Benton AR USA

March slipped in like a lamb: poems

 [THREE TRIPODS]

Beginning

a second night of rain

and thunderstorms, picking as many

fragrant flowers as I

can handle.        (2023)

A quartet

of butterflies flitting

from one red quince bloom to another

this early March morning.

What a sight!     (2023)

Amazing

to see an entire lake

migrate two miles due to the strong winds

on the second of March.

NO BOATING       (NYT news, 2024)

WITHOUT A MATCH

The old

space heater, moved,

realigned to gas source,

long unused pilot light relit.

Voila!            (Cinquain, 3.2.2025)

c 2025, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

16th anniversary of blogging: poems

 

Here are February poems, one from '13, but most from '23, and even one from today!

* cardinal / fluffing his feathers / for insulation ['13]

* neighbor's  board fence / topped with a white layer / of freezing precip ['23]

* holly tree / drooping deeply / -- its ice burden 

* yucca's green / barely showing / with its ice cover 

* new jigsaw puzzle / pawing through the pieces / hunting for borders ['24]

* The "Let / it Snow" napkins / at my computer, need / replacing with "Hurry up, Spring / HURRY!

c 2025, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

True Winter Weather: poems

(NOTE: Since I can't figure out how to get single spacing, for the following poems, a forward slash means a line break. (Now how did this get to be single spaced???)

 CINGUAIN SEQUENCE (1.9.'25)

A few/ very large flakes /keeping the weather folks / honest about their prediction/of snow.

Snowing/ harder, but still/ large flakes, yet birds keep on/ eating. I, too, am eating, but/ inside.

CINQUAIN (1. 10. '25

Nearly/ a foot of snow/ meant daughter couldn't get/ her car turned around in the yard./ No work!

HAIKU (1. 14. '25)

snow slowly melting / even a squirrel / under the feeder

CINQUAIN (1. 14. '25)

Hearing / a plane, I look / skyward. No plane up there / but I see a star!--a rare treat / here 'bouts. 

CINQUAIN (1.16. '25) AT AGE 88

For the / first time ever / I got to ride in the / cab of a wrecker towing my / dead Ford.

c 2025 PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

Welcome, I think, to 2025

 

Here are some poems from two collections of one copy each. Lighting a Candle and Sweetness of the apple.

 --- 23 degrees/ first day of the year, I read/ Season's spring haiku (Carolyn Thomas)

--- 18 degrees/ hoping the feral cats/ find a warm place

--- the eternal hum/ of the fan used to block/ teenager's TV (Season's line)

--- picking up/ morning, afternoon papers/ at the same time

--- during the morning/ birdbath water/ turning to ice

c 2025 PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA