Category: Haiku

peaches and cream breastfuzzy little tail feathersfledgling mourning dove Im-peach! Im-peach! shoutpoliticians with such afuzzy memory

an ocean of nightoutside the kitchen windowdistant city lights

a stop sign neverquestions the motive it justyields to the corner a link if you would like to participate: https://ronovanwrites.com/2021/08/23/ronovan-writes-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-372-question-and-sign

At daycare drop offmother always pulls her closepush of the workday The pull of the moona push of constellationsdrifting with the tide Puppy wants to playpush and pull with tug of warher favorite game The push of the countpull of seasons and Bashojust 5-7-5

Picasso paintingReality left to rotStill life with apples apples, pears, cabbagein grandma’s cool root cellarnothing’s left to rot

Her mind sending thenever ending note, not, no‘just be good enough’ Just one breath to senda heart note beat, beat, beatingsuch loving kindness

evening fireflieslike such tender satelliteswho orbit summer

Saturday shoppingHear the cash registers chirpAnd retailers sing You would think with all the bird haiku and other nature poems I have written that the prompts of chirp and sing would have produced something other than shopping!