love song by “the beetles” (live)

photo credit: dreamstime

photo credit: dreamstime


 

tentoumushi love

yeah ladybug, ladybug,

fly away with me

 

one thousand screaming fans can’t

rid the house of ladybugs

 


The theme at CDHK today is “tentoumushi” (ladybug)

and ladybug season will begin soon enough…

water strider does the tanka

Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today…enjoy your summer!

photo credit: EnWiki

bouncy ripple-rings

dancing across water’s skin

elusive soft-shoe

natural stand-up paddler

professionally equipped

arachnophobia’s ghost

Guest haiku for tan renga challenge at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai:

photo credit: dreamstime

photo credit: dreamstime

after my walk:
a perfect spiderweb
stuck to my glasses

© Lee Gurga
(Lincoln, Illinois)

after my walk:
a perfect spiderweb
stuck to my glasses

entangled, i grasp at air
slight ticklish feeling persists.

lynn__

grateful

Dedicated to my “sister” friend, Joyce, who recently let go of her mother’s hands…
 
strong women’s hands

shape my life and yours:

grandmas instill faith

aunts stitch laughter

sister friends en-courage

mothers mold hearts.

even if we can no longer

touch those dear hands,

we still hear the voices

of influence cheering us

on like birdsong

in a garden of grace.
 


Invited by Marina to write poem including words important to us/we are thankful for, on the occasion of the 4th anniversary of dVerse Poets

psalm in haiku form

renewing spirit
all my fountains are in you
fresh springs of shalom

(Psalm 87:7)

[old] woman who swallowed a fly…

 
a bug flew

into my mouth,

down my throat,

and now i feel

like gollum.

gollum (public domain)

gollum (public domain)

fireworks celebration

 

independence day

hands held over little ears

waterfall of sparks

 

photo credit: dreamstime

photo credit: dreamstime

 

inversion // diversion

tangerine sun

rolllling deliciously

down

to/ward blue sky-bowl’s rim

sWELLs briefly into

navel orange…then

ruby red grapefruit

e-long-gates to lemon wedge

be/fore drrroppping

off

green earth-table’s edge.

what DO cows do?

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what do cows do?

cows chew
cows moo
cows poo

cows munch
cows lunch
cows crunch

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photos by lynn

cows hay
cows lay
cows may

all day.

books in the attic

 

book-smell-1inside antique trunk

memories’ dust collated

open fragile leaves
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photo, prompt and links to more haiku found at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

purple cabbage in a green pail

photo by lynn__

dewy morning veins

garden pail holds cabbage head

salivates coleslaw
 
 


 

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contempt of court

 One-of-the-most-cowardly

in June, the bridal month,

five wise-in-their-own-eyes

justices rule supreme injustice;

deny reality’s own design,

declare bride is unnecessary

to have a wedding — absurd

as the emperor’s new clothes.

our founding fathers gave their

best to balance the powers that be.

We-the-people lament loud over

the proud actions of judges

who bring the gavel down

on a rainbow bully pulpit;

over-ruling states’ rights,

the Constitution, even

basic common sense.

Does anyone see the

naked shame of tyranny?


Justice Alito, in dissenting opinion, observed that “even enthusiastic supporters of same-sex marriage should worry about the scope of the power that today’s majority claims. Today’s decision shows that decades of attempts to restrain this Court’s abuse of authority have failed… All Americans,” he concludes, “should worry about what the majority’s claim of power portends.”

(quote from www.lifesitenews.com July 6, 2015)

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