Time for a fresh harvest of daily poems! Also: Writing prompt winners.
summertime–
let the screen door
bang
summer sunlight
through a green lace canopy
the energy
that slips through
my imperfect plans
seasons repeat
we tell the stories
we are given
(Originally published in Mayfly 58, Winter 2015)
swapping work stories
his pint of beer
has more foam
late summer
mating dragonflies
extend each other
my feelings
for her
fireflies
that raccoon
you know is out there —
a summer fling
A haibun by Charles Tarlton
spring light tadpoles growing into their tails
I tell my son
it?s okay to be fragile?
basil blossoms
filling up
the kiddie pool
a mom?s guilt
pebbles in the tide
my regrets lose
their rough edges
The sound of a door
behind me closing
on one less summer day
an ice cream truck
jingles its tune
down a dead end street
last rites. . .
rain fading into
bird song
(Received 1st Place in the 2015 Betty Drevniok Award)
autumn wind
for the cat now, my feet
no longer a toy
autumn stars
she hopes to go
in her sleep
an elm
in all its basketry—
the moon
my first earrings
box elder tree
seedpods
beyond the protest
willow limbs
shifting with the breeze