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). View all posts by Cyndi Lloyd
Oh, I know that feeling! A lovely, effective, and well captured moment. :)
Thank you for responding, Gisele.
Cyndi
Yes, a lovely haiku. We saw the monarch migration along the Lake Michigan shore this year. Thank you.
Thank you for your comment. How I'd love to see a monarch migration. I'm glad you saw it.
Cyndi
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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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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
I found this one quite humorous because I immediately had the sense that the butterfly was eavesdropping! :)
marion
Thank you, Marion. What an interesting perspective you've offered.
Cyndi
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