My husband's poetry

Category: Spring

  • Haiku Spring

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    months before they hatch envision flashing neon dragonfly bi-planes 3-25-22

  • mid-morning rain haiku

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    scent your hair with rain drops from finger tips of trees fragrant rot of spring 5-3-21

  • spring cleaning

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    I slept in this morning, because Mom kept trying to contact me from her grave Pulling me back into a dream Laying on the guilt Something about Lent And spring cleaning the kitchen Dad was calling out Alice, leave the boy alone Turn out the light and come to bed But mom kept knocking at…

  • haikus for false Spring

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    sunny Sunday sun equinox dress rehearsal spring not far away sharp tongued blue jay sits resplendent in tree line beauty is a beast sun worshippers bask bodies lie along the shore turtles seeking warm three red and one brown two cardinals do not care two reds will be sad lengthening daylight slow tilt towards equator…

  • Sing

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    After dark you begin singing descants in the trees Cicadas cocoon in burrows, await future summer casting calls I lie awake in the middle of the night and still you sing In pre-dawn dark, I celebrate your will to live your song of life Forage careful or you may become a silk wrapped spider larder…

  • The introvert

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    in the middle of green stands a trellis alone no vines, no roses, no flowers freshly painted, pristine immaculate a sentinel unable to leave its posting autumn will soon turn green brown silently, it implores spring to curve life around its frame 9-12-20

  • Spring

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    white lilies yellow flowers violets in the shade wisteria green grass azaleas along a fence black crow Carolina wren hawk circles in a blue sky 3-26-20

  • Loblolly pine

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    Dog tree sheds like a Siberian Husky Covers my clothes and shoes Desecrates upholstered lawn furniture Porcupine quill porch and window screens Dog tree leaves pine cones in the yard to step on Roots grow under feet to trip me Dog tree pollen chokes like a dog farting at my feet 3-25-20

  • Calyx

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    iris breeder lays hands on flowers yellows, reds and blues violets, pinks and purples ___ genuflects cleans tuber feet holy blossoms scent room ___ brushes dirt from knees and hands prays on garden bench for return of spring 2-17-20

  • Imagining My Northern Mother as a Southern Girl

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    tulip trees and camellias flash spring fashion reds and pinks and whites my mother would of loved April and May arriving in February I wonder what she would have decorated her yard with I imagine a magnolia yellow day lilies and something purple like grandpa’s irises that bloomed in May she would have grown vegetables…