dusk’s rousing chorus
crickets and cicadas sing
beyond the campfire ring
black cricket (dreamstime)
kipling’s harrumph
14 Aug 2015 4 Comments
in haiku Tags: camel, Jerusalem, pilgrims
Meme at CDHK today is “camel”…follow link 🙂
photo by lynn
stepping out in faith
pilgrims to jerusalem
purchase camel rides
invitation…celebration
14 Aug 2015 26 Comments
(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!
first lip-sticked scarecrow
13 Aug 2015 3 Comments
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…)
best dog days
03 Aug 2015 25 Comments
in free verse, mirror poem Tags: dog days, humidity, Lily, summer
At d’Verse Poets today, Toni invites us to write about the “dog days” of summer…
not gonna miss ‘em
our dog days are over
weather cools to 80’s
summer humidity drops
we can breathe again
heat made us both pant
my sweet silly Lily girl
husky-lab fur face friend
her final breaths labor
humidity of tears drop
105 fevered body cools
my dog’s days are over
oh, how i miss her !
Lily: faithful friend, walking partner, and quite possibly the best dog ever!
lost art of language
03 Aug 2015 4 Comments
in tanka Tags: hieroglyphics, Nile, Rosetta Stone
ancient hieroglyphs
stele etched, tri-lingual text
rosetta stone code
deified pharaoh’s decree
nile outlasts papyrus boats
photo credit: dreamstime
Ideas excavated from Carpe Diem Haiku Kai…
love song by “the beetles” (live)
27 Jul 2015 6 Comments
in tanka Tags: beetles, ladybug, love
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
19 Jul 2015 11 Comments
in tanka Tags: stand-up paddler, water strider
Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai today…enjoy your summer!
bouncy ripple-rings
dancing across water’s skin
elusive soft-shoe
natural stand-up paddler
professionally equipped
arachnophobia’s ghost
17 Jul 2015 12 Comments
Guest haiku for tan renga challenge at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai:
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
14 Jul 2015 29 Comments
in free verse Tags: grace, laughter, mothers, women
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
a poem in my pocket 
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