the monarch?s shadow
I stop talking
on the phone

 

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Cyndi Lloyd

Cyndi Lloyd lives in Utah with her husband and their dog. She loves being in nature--hiking and taking photographs. Her Japanese-form poems appear in various worldwide journals, including cattails, Chrysanthemum, Frogpond, The Heron?s Nest, Modern Haiku, Presence, Shamrock, and tinywords. Her poems also appear in the following anthologies: Haiku North America?s 2017 Anthology, Every Chicken, Cow, Fish and Frog: Animal Rights Haiku, (Ed. Robert Epstein); Write Like Issa: a haiku how-to (Ed. David G. Lanoue); They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku, (Ed. Robert Epstein).

9 thoughts on “”

  1. .
    Intimations of beauty outside bland human projections of human beauty. There is nothing to compete with real beauty. Thank you. :-)

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    over the nettles
    where I know I just can’t go
    orange-tip butterfly

    Alan Summers
    Publications credits: Presence 42 (2010)

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    1. Thank you, Alan, for your thoughtful comments and sharing your beautifully rendered traditional haiku. I appreciate the juxtaposition of the nettles, something harsh, with the soft, delicate butterfly – creates a great tension for the wanting and not being able to.
      Cyndi

  2. Cyndi,

    I too have seen a Monarch migration. I actually drove through it and stopped on the side of the road to watch it. I haven't seen one since. This happened about 9 years ago.

    Love your Haiku – Love, Mom

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