PEOPLE poems through the years

SPRING IN HONG KONG - '03

Tiny

ballerinas

rehearse their routines. Pink

tutus & tights and surgical

face masks.

~ ~ ~

FROM AN OBIT - '05

The task

of teaching in

a one-room schoolhouse: none

of the students were the same age,

alas.

Husband

gone to the war,

she cares for ailing mom

& two small children on her own.

Bravo!

~ ~ ~

YOUR BOSS IS CALLING - '05

Sister,

soon to retire,

wakens on a Friday--

she thinks it's Saturday, goes back

to sleep.

~ ~ ~

AMATEURS VS. PROFESSIONALS - '07

After

critiquing poor

haiku from the heartland,

I read Upstate Dim Sum. What a

difference.

~ ~ ~

NOW AND THEN  - '12

I swing

and inhale new

gardenias' aroma

thinking I should be busy with

something--

sanding

the dish cupboards'

insides so I can paint

or transplanting the moss rose, or

weeding.

Some days

seem only for

"being" and reflecting,

and this cool mid-May day is one

of them.

~ ~ ~

c 2018, PL d/b/a lovepat press, Benton AR USA 

One Memorial Day's poems

.

No breeze
except the one
made as I swing and write.
Birds still sleep? Not the usual
traffic.

As I

swing, the shadows

of the Norfolk pine grace

pages of the newspaper while

I read.

A small

brown butterfly

flits onto my paper

for a millisecond, then to

 pansies.

Even

most vehicles

sound subdued, respectful

on this Memorial Day as

they pass.

As if

in deference

to Memorial Day,

the flag--and the neighborhood are

quiet.

No scent

of charcoal, steak;

no raucous swim parties

on this Memorial Day. Still.

Somber.

Yarrow,

gardenias

and Easter lilies, all

white, two with strong aromas, all

blooming.

I love

to see a small

bird chasing a larger

one away from its habitat.

Go, bird!

Night bugs

beginning their

'time'. Wind chimes interfere

as does the roar of a bike. Still,

bugs rule!

c 2018, PL, d/b/a lovepat press, Benton AR USA

Mid-May flowers and one poem

PESKY--UNTIL THEY BLOOM
Privet,
honeysuckle,
hated most of the year
are spring-welcome, their aroma
sublime.
PL - [5.11.'18]
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Dianthus with driftwood

Dianthus and oxalis

Dutch iris. I was afraid they weren't going to bloom. I trimmed the burning bush and azalea that hemmed them in. Lo! and behold, they're blooming.

Oxalis that might crowd out the coreopsis, cone flower and purple jew

A second-year patch of white oxalis photo bombed by a mullein pink/ Rose Campion/ lambs ear. (And the photog's shadow.)

All these photos except the privet one taken May 11, '18 on my LG tablet. I email them to myself, save them to a pictures folder, then voila! I can use them for my blogs.

c 2018, Pat Laster, dba lovepat press, Benton AR USA