House pests: when it’s too wet we have earwigs, when it’s too dry we have ants.
hurricane warning
19 Feb 2022 2 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: hurricane, rain, weather, wind
Extreme winds and seaweed-filled storm surge during Hurricane Dennis. Key West, Florida. (Mike Theiss/National Geographic/Getty Images)
torrential downpour
beats against shuttered windows
winds rip off shingles
ears glued to weather channel
till electricity quits
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My response to the Sunday time challenge at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. Landlocked in Iowa, I’m glad we never experience hurricanes directly…we have tornadoes!
overheard
27 Mar 2019 18 Comments
in free verse Tags: bar, earth, global warming, half moon, venus, weather
it was almost morning,
half moon and venus were
still hanging at the star bar
watching the world turn.
“earth, ain’t she a beauty?!”
half moon commented.
“she really is, considering
her age,” venus had to agree.
“she’s weathered many storms
in her years…whatcha think
about this global warming?”
“i’m not convinced, seems
earth’s weather has always
been a bit unpredictable…
pixabay image
(sigh) i’m not sure people
are as wise and powerful
as they imagine they are.”
half moon chuckles, “well,
looks like sun’s gonna close
this place down…alright
if i walk you home?”
forecast blues
13 Oct 2018 7 Comments
in rhyming verse, rubaiyat Tags: cornstalks, farmers, harvest, soybeans, weather, wet
stuck weather pattern only brings more rain
while farmers ripe to harvest feel the strain
soybeans swell fat, cornstalks rot wet
without a crop, families grow debt
we hope and pray for sun to shine again!
(oh no, could that be snow?!)
Linking to dVerse poets’ pub where Frank is toasting iambic pentameter…
man of the land
31 Aug 2018 6 Comments
in quadrille Tags: bales, calves, dirt, earth, land, soil, weather
salt of the earth
faithful steward of the soil
guardian of God’s garden
patiently waits for harvest
impatiently wrestles with weather
muscular and tanned from
carrying wet calves
throwing dry bales
created from dust with
dirt under his fingernails
…to dust someday must return
A quadrille of 44 words on the theme of “earth”.
“great expectations”
29 May 2017 Leave a comment
in tanka Tags: corn, expectations, farmer, promise, weather
weather gets bad rap
01 May 2017 4 Comments
in rhyming verse Tags: May Day, robins, snow, tulips, weather
may day!
photo by lynn
may day
winter has
a hay day
weather is
a melee
tulips in dis-
-may sway
robins go
cra cra
dare to
stay, say
welcome
May day
to I-o-way
oh, yay!
pitter~patter
24 Aug 2016 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: camping, rain, sleep, weather
Theme at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai is “power of words”: let the rain kiss you
“Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” ~Langston Hughes
pack to go camping
forecast predicts rain showers
great sleeping weather
thankful tanka
24 Nov 2015 6 Comments
in tanka, Uncategorized Tags: snow, soil, sunshine, weather
sunshine’s steady warmth
melting snow, nourishing soil
vital nitrogen
_____
listen to weather’s whisper
nature’s cycle of blessing
photo by lynn
weather the weather
11 Nov 2015 14 Comments
in nonet Tags: november, rain, trees, weather
nonet: stanza(s) of nine lines, each with increasing # of syllables (1-9) dVerse poetics
warm
days of
november
probably past
colder times ahead
forecast fog, wet grey rain
free- zing an- ti- ci- pa- tion
smell of manure spread on bare fields
trees’ silhouettes swallowed by swift night
photo by lynn
small comforts and a change in weather
24 Aug 2015 20 Comments
in Uncategorized Tags: walk, weather, woolly worm
My thanks to Mary Stone of Garden Dilemmas, Delights & Discoveries for the woolly bear photo. Check out her garden blog!
photo credit: http://www.gardendilemmas.com
i meet five woollies on the road
as i walk under raincloud’s lode
drink in sad thoughts of faithful dog
her death leaves me in memory’s fog
collar’s empty, no tug on leash
it’s hard to walk alone…cah-peesh?
husband working and dad retired
my neighbor sits in class, inspired
so, fuzzy woolly, soft and brown
shyly inching ‘cross the ground
i’ll stroke you gentle as can be
oh, woolly, would you walk with me?
revenge is heat
04 Jan 2014 Leave a comment
in Uncategorized Tags: hot sky, revenge, weather
In a frozen land
where temps dip
below nothing,
winds whip snow
across roads to
whirl into ditches
in wavy dunes,
it’s a comfort
to know that
somewhere…
the sky is hot
with flaming clouds
and burning colors,
heat waves rise
from soft asphalt
while the natives
and tourists sweat.
(TweetSpeakpoetry prompt, “Hot Sky”)
a poem in my pocket 
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