Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Monday, June 22, 2009

FIRST DAY OF SUMMER 2009

HAIKU
first day of summer
an early-morning ground fog
over the hayfield
[c-patlaster 09]

HAIKU
whiff of camellia
the added reward
for sitting outside
[c-patlaster 09]

HAIKU
the kitten
like all others before him
learns to chase his tail
[c-patlaster 09]

SENRYU
affixing a stamp
suddenly, I glimpse in mine
my late mother's hand
[c-patlaster 09]

Friday, March 6, 2009

March 6 of various years: haiku booklet entries

the sun catcher
in an east window sparkles
this winter morning
~~ from sweetness of the apple (2009)

before daffodil
or purple martin
killer tornado
~~from connecting our houses (1997)
(co-author, Dot McLaughlin, NJ)

two feet of snow there
yet the geese fly northward
early March dawn
~~from along the pasture fence (2005)
~~publ. in the premier edition
of Hermitage (Romania, 2004)

a gray-haired bagger
she asks the 30-something
if he needs help out
~~from Measuring March (2003)

basking in the sun
shedding one pair of socks ...
and then another
~~from lighting a candle (2008)
~~publ. in Haiku Headlines
(Jan 2006)