March observations: poems

 photo - Carolyn Hoggard

EAGER

Humming

"June is bustin'

out all over" while I

rake leaves, scissor brown from iris,

clip hedge.

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PERHAPS IN APRIL?

March 4--

too windy for

tender begonias. I 

return them inside till the wind

abates.

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TWO PICTURES

Yellow

and pink blossoms

beyond the bird feeder.

Inside, a bouquet: yellow, pink;

March wind.

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HAIKU

walking the old trail

to hear the sounds of spring

--the maples budding

~ ~ ~ (2000; publ. 37 Cents, e-zine, 2007)

HAIKU

still on the young oak

brown leaves rattle in the wind

nearby, jonquils

c, 2022, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

Early-February poems

 

 Snow and ice hit us last week

2.3.'22 

Only

birds moving this

morning. A solid sleet

sheet that looks more like snow holds their

feet up.

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2.3.'22 

Oh, good!

A pair of doves

discovered the birdseed

thrown out on top of the sleet. More

birds come.

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2.3. '22

Biscuits!

I should make some.

Then I find a pre-mixed

box. Today, with sleet and snow, I

bake them.

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2.4.'22

Juvies

have a playhouse

under the abelia:

up and down, in and out, white ice

aground.

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2.6. '22

"Squirrel food,"

the crossword clue 

says. "Nuts." Yet here I sit

breakfasting on syruped-biscuits

and nuts!

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2.6. '22

S l o w l y

but surely, ice

and snow disappear as

the sun warms the atmosphere. (Not

sorry.)

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c 2022, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

Poems from Quilled Quintains anthology, Merry Bombadils, MSPS branch poets

 TANKA

89-year-old house

getting its first fire

extinguisher

   now, what will extinguish

   rodents in the basement?

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TANKA

huge poinsettia--

granddaughter's Christmas gift

before Thanksgiving

   no matter that her dad bought

   and delivered it to me

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A NEW DAY

(Tripod)

Perfectly

clear blue sky except for

a silverfish-sized, rumbling airplane

early in summer's

cool morning.

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FIRST, I SMELLED IT

(Tripod)

Now, I hear

the rain on the far porch

that's uncovered. And the roadway sings

as vehicles zing by.

Yes, it's rain!

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 OR EAT FROM THE RIND

(Cinquain)

Using

a grapefruit spoon

on a small discount fruit,

but easier to cut in small

pieces.

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c 2022, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

Winter solstice poems

winter solstice

inside, quince blooms, berried

euonymus, moon vine

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winter solstice

oak leaves covering

daffodil shoots

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the fall edition

arriving on the first day

of winter

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winter solstice walk

the impressionist landscape

without my glasses

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winter solstice

the last piece of pear cake

from Thanksgiving

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a blackbird

on the top-most branch

--winter solstice

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Poems on Pearl Harbor Day many years later

 

Pearl Harbor Day--

a branch of red leaves

framing the stoplight

---from a branch of led leaves

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32 degrees

yet birdbath water not ice

Pearl Harbor Day

--from to snug in a leaf

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after they married

December 5, '41

war broke out

--from in front of the moon

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Autumn poems

 SENRYU

late September

granddaughter just now coming

for her Christmas gifts

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CINQUAIN

Poor dove--

can't/won't fly to

feeder--must be content

to glean, like Ruth did, what is found

beneath.

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CINQUAIN

A lone

moss rose blossom--

pink--in the airplane plant

this mid-October! Where did it

come from?

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CINQUAIN

Changing

into long sleeves,

long pants and socks! Forty-

eight degrees outside seeped into

this house.

c 2021, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA

September 4th poems from monthly booklets

 early September

near the courts, a tennis ball

in poison ivy  

a patch of yellow - 2005

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Labor Day

sweeping the dust from one place

to another

just before dawn - 2006

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having the most fun

ever at a football game

junior band student

a crisp brown leaf - 2015

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Summer

trudges on, its

heat softened this year. Kids

have returned to school. Football is

on us . . . (from ADG editorial, '02)

September Cinquains - 2018

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Trying 

to wipe the stem

off a pear on the mug,

thinking it leaf litter, perhaps

a bug.

September Cinquains -  2020

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opening

before my eyes--

pot of purslane blooms

fishing off the dock - 2021

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c 2021, PL dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA