honey-cool melon tasting of a hundred hives
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Lesley Anne Swanson
Lesley Anne Swanson strives to write musically, using words and images that linger, especially when read aloud. In 2016 her work was honored with the top award of the Japan Tanka Poets Society. She lives in eastern Pennsylvania. View all posts by Lesley Anne Swanson
Refreshing on a humid southern Illinois afternoon. Good poem.
the sound of pouring tea
dawn
Now, whenever I read of watermelon I think of Harry Styles and his addictive 3 minute song Watermelon Sugar!
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What a wonderful monoku:
honey-cool melon tasting of a hundred hives
—LESLEY ANNE SWANSON
I've written a lot of bee haiku but alas purely as tercets, so I gleefully devour this sublime single-line haiku. No wonder religions have been based on bees, and honey!
Alan
Pure bliss!
marion