a poem in my pocket

Linking to Chèvre’s “jade” haiku prompt at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today.

panther eyes flash jade

supermoon highlights velvet

exotic huntress

ID 29964744 © Volodymyr Byrdyak | Dreamstime.com

More info’ on “black panthers”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6przuR7ITfY

Meeting the bar and modifying it at dVerse poets over-the-top prompt!

 
tortoise-ical tutor
obfuscately attempts
sea-weedy conversation
with dog-paddling spanglish
-as-a-second(third?)-
language student.

both adults, babble-on
with mermaid tongues,
wordy fusillade slippery
as school of lingual fish;
all eager shimmering scales
while meaning flip-flops crazily
across (un)intended beach.

perhaps it’s more than
enough (enough already!)
to sit smallish-ly together
on interpretation’s vast sands;
tossing vocabulary pebbles into
non-verbal waves of understanding.

What I learned at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai (from Jane Reichhold):  In Japanese, a traditional “dodoitsu” is composed of four phrases in 7-7-7-5 sound units. These were sung to accompaniment of a shamisen  (banjo-like instrument with three strings). The subject matter was either love or humor.

I added rhyme because it’s our anniversary 🙂

honeysuckle image from dreams time

honey bee my honey dew

on our honeysuckle vine

soften me and sweeten you

pleasure’s yours and mine

(Join d’Verse Poets writing “echo” poems…and enjoy reading!)
 

who may come?

anyone

run as a child

wild

come humble

stumble

from shrouded night

fright

into living light

sight

come poor and needy

lovesick, greedy

come dirty and mean

be clean

hungry, thirsty, or chilled

be filled

come with your doubt

re-route

lay out your fleece

peace

the hour is near

here!

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!

“scarf” photo & prompt from Lolly at CDHK

bus stop vigilance

wrapped in wrinkled widowhood

autumn’s chill forecast

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

(Psalm 87:7)

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.