Category: Haiku

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!

Rapid on the wingWheeling and plunging for bugsFive purple martins And my husband’s contribution: Rivers, life have choicesRapids then plunge or ratherPlunge then rapid, choose… But I like what he wrote first: Rivers like life areRapid then plungePlunge then rapid

high and tight haircutbarber’s memory refreshedthose old air force days Monday morning runthe endorphins will refresha natural high #356: Every April red breasted grosbeaks stop at our feeder in Jackson, TN during their migration north. My high school friend living in Elmira, NY posted pictures on Facebook of her first sighting of grosbeaks at her […]

Cicadas are waaay ugly bugs that emerge out of the ground every 13 or 17 years. The males climb on trees, cling to the bark and make a LOUD buzzing noise to attract the females. Honestly, the word buzzing does not really cut it. Jackhammer may be more appropriate. Here in Tennessee July and August […]