Summer is a-goin' out, fall is comin' in - Poems & photos

Summer
left grudgingly
with an hour's thunder,
wind blowing still-green leaves from two
maples.
~ ~ ~ ~

wisteria
clipped from crape myrtle
sending up a shoot
~ ~ ~ ~

Stretching
for the suet
--to no avail--the finch
finally hops to a closer
branch, eats.
~ ~ ~ ~

A wren

flies to the porch,

then to the flowerbed.

A hummingbird whirrs in to sip

red sage.

~ ~ ~ ~

Baby

lizard dares to

emerge from behind the

porch box; I shake my footstool, it

goes back.

~ ~ ~ ~

across the sidewalk

dandelions facing 'mums

summer into fall

~ ~ ~ ~

brown thrasher

enjoying the suet

alone

~ ~ ~

Mother's Day hibiscus

Blogging with poems about 9-11

                                                                       Lest we forget

STILL TOO EMOTIONAL
Folding
pages of news
about 9-11
anniversary till I can
take it.
[2002]
~ ~ ~

bereaved families
their loved ones returned
piece by piece
             eventually
[2006]
~ ~ ~

World Trade Towers
"attacked...aflame...
aground
      &
medical teams,
volunteers of all colors
in hospital green
       &
two days later,
he pulls his "9-11" shirt
from a jumbled drawer
[2012]
~ ~ ~

The flag
billowed in gusts
of winds that moved cloud streaks
through the pale blue sky and across
the sun.
[2012]

SHUDDER . . . CHILL
Sixty
degrees on Nine-
Eleven, 15 years
since the bombing of the World Trade
Towers.
[2016]
~ ~ ~

JOURNAL ENTRIES, 2018
On swing.
Raining gently.
In the distance, a train.
Cloudy, almost breeze-less. Lest we
forget.
   
      &

the flag
dripping tears
of rain
~ ~ ~

c2018, PL d/b/a lovepat press, Benton AR USA