crabapple blossoms
thickly blanket underneath
stirred by a crisp breeze
5.8
08 May 2021 1 Comment
in haiku, poetry Tags: flowers, haiku, spring
Tanka 5.3
03 May 2021 3 Comments
in poetry, tanka Tags: dandelion, flowers, summer, tanka
bright dandelions
stretching their necks far above
the soft green grasses
tip their faces to follow
the path of the summer sun
Haiku 4.19.21
19 Apr 2021 1 Comment
in haiku Tags: flowers, haiku, NaPoWriMo
nestled in the grass
seven tiny violets
hiding from the sun
Haiku 5.30
30 May 2020 Leave a comment
in haiku, poetry Tags: evening, flowers, haiku, lilac, stillmess, sunset
wood smoke and lilac
waft across the fresh cut lawn
slowly the night falls
Tanka on Tuesday 5.12
13 May 2020 1 Comment
in poetry, tanka Tags: flowers, haiku, haiku poetry, tanka, tanka poetry
bumblebee looping
clumsily between flowers
pausing on each one
your head rests on my shoulder
I smell flowers in your hair
how the conversation might go
04 Mar 2013 9 Comments
in poetry, thoughts Tags: flowers, love, lust, stone, unrequited love
I would like to tell you
about how the purple flowering vine
clings to mortar
holding the bricks into a wall
as it climbs towards the sun,
but I’m afraid
that if you stopped by my porch
for simple conversation
and a coffee
I’d say instead
how the tendrils
gripped the red-brown bricks
with little hairs, translucent,
tiny like the ones sprinkled
across the curve of your stomach
that only could be seen
from my head nestled there
in the afternoon light
dappling us through the lattice
as we cling to each other
on the double wedding ring
quilt spread carefully on the floor.