over red hills
the colored rings of sunrise
this balance
of moving forward
and letting go
(Red Hills, Lake George, 1927, Georgia O’Keeffe)
Author: 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).
one way
or the other…
sunflowers
the monarch’s shadow
I stop talking
on the phone