who stands in garden?
dressed in winter’s faded clothes
glove flaps at blackbirds
photo by lynn
Linking with Lolly at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai‘s garden today!
life’s flowered shawl will fade
10 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
“scarf” photo & prompt from Lolly at CDHK
bus stop vigilance
wrapped in wrinkled widowhood
autumn’s chill forecast
fibonacci desert sequence
06 Aug 2015 8 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: desert, Egypt, pyramids
Link to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai with “fibo-ku”
hot
sand
cheops
pyramids
slave labor, clay bricks
egyptian mathematicians
perfectly aligned tombs with stars in orion’s belt
masterfully designed mysteries of history’s engineering feats we marvel
photo credit: dreamstime
(poem’s syllabification follows fibonacci sequence of 1,1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21…)
psalm in haiku form
12 Jul 2015 2 Comments
renewing spirit
all my fountains are in you
fresh springs of shalom
(Psalm 87:7)
books in the attic
08 Jul 2015 6 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: attic, books, memories
inside antique trunk
memories’ dust collated
open fragile leaves
Photo, prompt and links to more haiku found at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai
happy 239th birthday
04 Jul 2015 3 Comments
I thank Greg, from Potholes in the Road of Life, who invited me to share favorite quotes. I offer three quotes (with my own photography) in honor of our Constitution and nation, still indivisible under God, who has blessed us these many years.
simple gifts
03 Jul 2015 4 Comments
Thank God for my farmer
he chose me as his wife
I’m grateful for children
faithful sons, counting five
Daughters by marriage
and grandkids, gifts of life
Thank God for his goodness,
sends each season in time
Heart grateful for Jesus,
broken poet’s best rhyme!
summer’s listening ears
02 Jul 2015 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: corn, farmers, green, plants
Linking with Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today…
Haiga by lynn
love like blue mounds state park
28 Jun 2015 4 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: clouds, cottonwood, oak, prairie, quarzite, wren
rose quartzite cliff first beckons, then
bewilders inexperienced rock climber
merry wren on fencepost sings counter-
melody to deeper tones of brown thrasher
tall cottonwood and strong gnarly oak
together shelter and shade young nesters
gathering clouds on horizon bend to kiss
soft sloping shoulder of open prairie
Jupiter pulls Venus into closer orbit
two planets dance as only stars in sky
one of these things is not like the others
25 Jun 2015 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: common core, cornfield, peacock, school bus
Did you happen to see who parked that old school bus in our ripe cornfield?
(clipping two-for-one coupons, ignoring date of old advertisement)
Must be local school board member implementing common core standards.
(weather report for last chance of severe thunderstorm activity)
Kids should not be bullied into eating apples on abandoned bus!
(cry of neighbor’s peacock sounds like someone is torturing a cat)
With the corn price falling, maybe we should leave rusty bus in the field.
(wondering how open-minded you can be before your brain rolls out?)
photo borrowed from TweetSpeak Poetry
essential eulogy
24 Jun 2015 29 Comments
one’s personal history
is collection of stories;
some you live through,
others you listen to
but all family stories
are part of our metal,
hammered and shaped
by past into present…
townspeople reckon
village blacksmith as
skilled craftsman and
“real good worker” but
self-respect can slide
like hot iron horseshoe
when own brood of
children run barefoot.
villagers whisper
behind callous hands
“it’s a real shame”
he drinks too much,
(and too often) so when
smithy dies penniless,
they bury him in back
corner of town cemetery.
lone unmarked grave
swallowed by prairie sod
yet remembered by God
and my grandpa, who
(as re-told by my father)
later paid for a small flat
stone to honor passing
of a hard-wrought life.
summertime’s yellow hope
23 Jun 2015 6 Comments
I’m sharing a “cascading” haiku written by the creative host at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai who regularly shares a challenge or haiku prompt with his readers. I also admire Van Gogh’s paintings so my own haiku (below) is inspired by both!
hopeful new day
available in yellowish
a great sunflower
a great sunflower
desirable to bright sunlight
bows its head to earth
bows its head to earth
a possible new flower opens
promising dreams
© Chèvrefeuille
vincent’s bold flowers
still life radiates sunshine
dying exudes warmth
Sunflowers by Van Gogh
a poem in my pocket 
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