LONG TIME WITHOUT POSTING: June poems

 

HAIKU

successful short flight

from privet to windowsill

two young cardinals

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from the back pew

two older women chatting

during the sermon

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bereavement lily

its orange fallout

blessing me

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season's first melon

its aroma more luscious

than its taste

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CINQUAIN

Rhythm

and Bayous road

in southern Arkansas.

We head home from a week's trip to

the beach.

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Pulling

yellowed leaves from

a budding gardenia

bush, I discover this gorgeous

blossom.

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TANKA

daughter-in-law's

gifts from earlier

Mother's Days

   come out of the closet

   each Sunday of spring

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