Category: Summer
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Dog days of summer
These are the dog days of summer mornings so hot frogs are silent, turtles don’t bask on banks and the insect chorus is tacit. Except for one or two still trying to attract a mate; the rest have gone to ground to snuggle and breed, died from exhaustion or just delirious from the heat. Which…
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migrations
The geese have been gone two weeks now Only the heron and turtles remain. Our grandson and his girl friend fly home to Indiana Saturday. Our quiet routine returns until next summer. We miss the solitude of loneliness And the noise and bustle of family, But if we must choose between the two We will…
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haiku howdy
summer lies lazy like kudzu upon a fence all heavy and green new neighbor’s brown cat looks for shade along the fence under choking vine late morning coffee familiar roasted bitter bean speaks to me of home friend in Sunday clothes a sermon is their path – mine’s a reverent cat 7-17-22
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haiku summer
squirrels still wear fur earth tilts towards summer sun comes on skeeter wings ___ colors flit and flash ask the why of common names damsel or dragon ___ pray before breakfast get your walk in early, please find some shade and sit 7-16-22
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Voyeurism 101: Saturday Morning at the Soda City Market in Six Easy Lessons
1) Arts and crafts – your name in wood, Handmade bird houses and bowls to sit on a shelf Tee-shirts – tie dyed, cute sayings, political epithets, Painted flags, cows and chickens with claws, birds on the beach Handmade pens and jewelry maybe imported from third world sweatshops 2) Food booths and trucks – artisan…
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lazy hazy crazy days of summer haiku
morning cicadas tree top breakfast serenade lazy Summer day 6-23-22
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Dark symphony
porch sitting summer solestice eve bare feet tap midnight call and response cicadas sing high descant tree frogs could not reach 6-21-22
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Chewing on clover
In the park, city employees fire up equipment at 6 am. Coffee in hand, you nod at mower and weedwhacker guys; Stop and talk basketball with the blower man, because He’s always looking for an excuse to stop working And you are always looking for someone to talk basketball with Before they go hide from…
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how about you?
sharp Fall mornings cut through summer clothes how about you? I await the sun and lingering summer how about you? COVID isolates this extrovert twists my brain in knots how about you? vicissitudes of aging don’t mesh with young desires how about you? 10-20-21
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early morning, late summer haiku
early in the day light walks bright green through foliage fresh tea tastes of mint 9-14-21
