backyard maple tree
washes her leafy head
in morning downpour
then towels long hair
to dry in afternoon’s
prairie wind until the
fresh evening petrichor
beckons me outdoors
to pick up fallen sticks;
loose hairs shed after
miss maple’s shampoo.
summer shower
10 Jul 2024 1 Comment
in free verse, imagism Tags: downpour, maple tree, petrichor, rain, sticks, summer, wind
iowa in july
02 Jul 2024 2 Comments
in classical haiku Tags: cows, fireflies, hollyhocks, iowa, July, summer
glimpsed thru evergreen
summer blushes crimson red
neighbor’s hollyhocks
cornfields of faeries
follow grandchildren’s ball games
fireflies shine at night
angus cows with calves
graze in heavenly pastures
sweet ruminations
primary matrix
25 May 2020 20 Comments
in ekphrastic, haibun Tags: Broadway, Denver, grid, lights, summer
Piet Mondrian: Broadway Boogie Woogie
Take me back to Broadway at night! Let’s experience the electric excitement in street lights’ shine, neon signs blinking, billboards’ glare, and stream of traffic headlights or taillights in opposite lanes. Life in Denver drives on pulsating grid.
White delivery trucks, yellow taxis, blue mustangs and red VW bugs follow the streets, avenues, and boulevards of my childhood and adolescence. Dibs on the back seat of school bus! An urgent siren sends all traffic curbside to let a flashing emergency vehicle past.
Be ready with horn or brakes and quick maneuvers. Circle carefully around bustling parking lots. Wait your turn at busy car wash or fast food drive-up window. Go slow through used car lot…lit by aliens? No, it’s a police helicopter checking back alleys.
girl’s eyes reflect lights
cruise city on summer night
buzzy as beehive
Kim hosts haibuns and invites us to “meet Piet” on “Broadway” at dVerse Poets pub.
paint chip poetry
06 Mar 2020 2 Comments
in poem for children, rhyming verse Tags: arboretum, cotton candy, dandelion, moon, summer, wisteria
what the world needs?
ask any child and they’ll say:
swimming pool in my backyard
or smiling dandelion bouquet!
turn world into arboretum
smell the wonderful wisteria
pass around free cotton candy
play in full moon lit mysteria
please rub on that gold genie lamp
and send us all to summer camp!
Linking to Linda’s paint chip poetry prompt here…
summer evening
29 Oct 2019 7 Comments
in haiku series, troiku Tags: crawdads, evening, fireflies, grass, minnows, moon, pool, prairie, summer, wind
longing for the grass
at the bottom of the pool
those fireflies.
© Buson
longing for the grass
blades wave under prairie wind
rustle in ditches
at bottom of pool
crawdads and minnows asleep
moon passes over
elusive fireflies
hide in long grasses near pond
flicker on and off
© lynn
Image and troiku challenge celebrating Carpe Diem Haiku Kai’s 7th anniversary!
prairie calls my name
10 Aug 2019 2 Comments
in classical haiku, fusion haiku, troiku Tags: bees, flowers, hum, mystery, prairie, summer, wind
windy weather
calling the flowers by name
each nods
depth of a flower
flying away with the bee
some mystery
© Jane Reichhold
My “fusion” haiku/ troiku:
wildflowers nod heads
while bees hum mystery song
prairie breeze summer
wildflowers nod heads
as gentle wind nudges clouds
sleepy afternoon
bees hum mystery
in honeyed depth of pistil
sweet nectar distills
prairie breeze summer
delivers pollen and seeds
native plants flourish
photos by lynn
hashi-i
22 Jul 2019 2 Comments
in classical haiku, haiku Tags: book, cooling off, iced-tea, porch, sumac, summer
Linking to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai with this tanka…
sip book and iced tea
late summer sumac turns red
cooling off…on porch
sinking into old stuffed couch
before school begins again
frozen dreams
06 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in haiku series, troiku Tags: belly, holiday, ice cream, luscious, summer, truck, vanilla
Join Chevrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for an ice cream “troiku” challenge!
snow fall in belly
adding lusciousness to feast 
vanilla ice cream
© S.D. Tiwari
snow fall in belly
pocket change for tinkling truck
cool summertime treat
adding lusciousness
to fruity pie a la mode
at holiday feast
vanilla ice cream
lactose intolerant now
such sweet memories
tickled pink
14 Jun 2019 8 Comments
in haiku, troiku Tags: color, grand daughters, peonies, pink, smiles, summer
My haiku/senryu/troiku written for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai challenge…
hot pink peonies
sweet gift from my grand daughters
picked fresh this morning
hot pink peonies
bloom on daughter-in-love’s bush
color of summer
gift from grand daughters
to surprise beloved grandma
sweet smiles are enough
picked fresh this morning
fragrant blush on lips, cheeks
happiness in bloom
photo by lynn
summer dreams
03 May 2019 2 Comments
in tan renga Tags: butterfly, dandelion, dream, summer, sunshine, weed
A tan renga where two poets play (CDHK challenge).
a dandelion
now and then interrupting
the butterfly’s dream
© Chiyo-Ni
more than a moth on a weed—
sunshine’s harmonious muse
© lynn__
photo by lynn
to survive snowstorm
07 Feb 2019 22 Comments
in rubaiyat Tags: blizzard, cold, log, mug, prairie, snow, summer, warmth, winter
across this frozen prairie, winter blows
strong blizzard gale bullwhips up fallen snow
we shiver, polar-cold, wind’s frightful roar
and add thick logs to embers burning low
such fierceness could freeze creature to the core
if wait exposed; come, safe inside closed door
we offer mugs to drink in warming flow
and reminisce of summer sun-swept shores
Rubaiyat: The ruba’i is a classical Persian quatrain or double couplet of 4 lines and having rhyme scheme either AABA or AAAA. A collection of more than one quatrain is called a rubaiyat.
Edward Fitzgerald popularized the form in English. He chose iambic pentameter, generally 10-syllable lines with alternating accents, for the meter and used the AABA rhyme scheme. Having the unrhymed third line allows the poet to use that sound from the first quatrain as the main rhyming sound in the next quatrain, connecting the stanzas.
My thanks to Frank at dVerse Poets for this information on the rubaiyat form!
a poem in my pocket 
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