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
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #370
Picasso paintingReality left to rotStill life with apples apples, pears, cabbagein grandma’s cool root cellarnothing’s left to rot
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #367
Her mind sending thenever ending note, not, no‘just be good enough’ Just one breath to senda heart note beat, beat, beatingsuch loving kindness
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #364
evening fireflieslike such tender satelliteswho orbit summer
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #363
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!
Mockingbird
Where I live was cotton field before suburban sprawl. There is a (manmade) lake and mature trees, so we have a variety of birds. One of the most prolific species is mockingbirds. So raucous and protective of the mealworms we offer at the feeders, I have nicknamed a particularly unruly male Godzilla. This is my […]
To the bee outside my kitchen window
Do not bee about my back window a prize of pollinating puffiness, a buff genus bee-ness, insecta inflectaGet to work on the tomato plants, pedal those petals, buzz those buds Don’t you understand what’s going on around here? Under much enthusiasm and gravity with its attending salty sea level my household waits for florid, thin […]
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #359
A haiku first linethe mix of seasons and lifeeach year on repeatspring summer fall and wintersymbols count as syllables And my husband’s: Contrails, lanes, words, ageposition, series, brands atrisk, lines mixed give course
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #358
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
Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #357 and #356, because I was a slacker last week
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 […]
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