Category: Summer
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Southern Summer Sunday
southern summers do not end until October three more months of windless days and green heat basketballs thump in the park children laugh down the street a mower tames unruly grass no hurricane spins offshore today no incessant rains I sit with a book and listen to Sunday simmer in the shade you may quarrel…
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umbrella haikus
rain in the forecast umbrella skies, muddy shoes and long summer naps summer rain rattles leaves in trees, gutters and drains thunder shakes the sky tree frogs unafraid of heavy rain and lightning celebrate the storm 8-5-25
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haiku requiem of corn
bright blue summer day golden tassels in a field corn’s sweetest harvest 7-25-25
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the crunch of haiku litter
in heat of summer last year’s harvest of brown leaves call remember me 7-25-25
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haiku for a sunny day
dappled shadows dance back and forth like sandpipers dance before the sea 7-24-25
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Summer rain
in fading light on our front porch sit…read Thomas Hardy’s poems while rain drums tympany on the roof of my regrets 7-11-25
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sunset
When the birds call down the sun and shadows darken in the woods, when sunlight kisses the tops of trees goodnight and cicadas begin their droning, mosquitos come to suck my blood and I must go inside. 7-5-25
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summer solstice haiku
on the longest day, off the well-worn path, beauty blooms among the weeds 6-20-25
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Of the pond
still water mirror reflects the sky insects drone birds are quiet swallowtail glints yellow in the sun dragonfly skims weeds along the shore breeze flees hot morning waits for evening to return 7-25-23
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Sundown
light hangs on the rim of the sky bullfrogs call back and forth along the pond, tree frogs chatter in the foliage mosquitoes have become vampires clouds grumble about the heat and promise rain desperate cicadas scream come find me; I don’t want to die alone 7-21-23
My husband's poetry 