Category: sun
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haiku swelter
confused summer sky lightning on the horizon our yard sits in sun 7-27-21
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Urban Sun
An urban sun does not smudge lipstick On the collar of the sky Leave glitter on shouldered landscapes It wakes under bushes in the park Bathes like Bathsheba on the roof Slides down a flagpole in the school yard Struts on Main Street Glistens sweaty on front stoops at midday Towards evening it disappears around…
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Narcissist drinks the sun
dawn shimmers clouds and trees turtle breaches still surface concentric circles set in motion ripple clouds and trees on way to shore mirrored image ponders its own reflection faithful to the sun and self 6-14-21
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Thursday’s forecast
silt brown water reflects cotton candy sky turtles line a log like fancy dinner plates on a shelf tree frogs drone bull frogs play tympany birds sing hallelujah to the sun two green anoles court on wet fence rail forecast is for drizzle with prolonged periods of calm 6-3-21
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untitled Ridvan poem
in the deepest trench of the ocean drops that once fell upon the tops of the highest mountains still retain memories of the sun 4-28-21 (Today is the Baha’i holy day, The 9th Day of Ridvan and during prayer this came to me.)
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haiku morning sun
Morning sun through hazeBefore day’s heat arrivesWater your flowers 4-27-21
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Certitude
the Sun does not ride a chariot across the sky neither does it go down or up you and I spin towards night spin back and call it morning it never left we turned away do not blame the Sun for our recitations of illusion our dizzy spinning away and back back and away, again…
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Beatitudes
Blessed is the morning Blessed is the coffee Blessed is the sun before the rain Blessed are the birds that dampen the traffic noise Blessed is the train that wails and the siren song that fades Blessed is the drone of the plane that stays aloft Blessed are the dog walkers, the couples, the skateboarders,…
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haikus from Congaree with the grandson
brown snake suns on log bright flowers bloom on green stem turtle swims nearby grey dead pine stands tall cypress wades water knee deep woodpecker loves both lichen grows on logs wind counsels trees about death birds call down the sun 3-26-21
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morning haikus at daughter’s kitchen table
chickens cluck in coop cat cries at granddaughter’s door cuddles her awake in an urban zoo kindness is learned behavior bunny waits its turn coffee cuts the chill long shadows on woody ground trees and sun collage 3-12-21
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