Month: June 2022
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Under Pressure
The omega. Always the last to feed, despite my part in the hunt. Always the butt of snickers, warning growls, scuffles—and the bites and flesh tearings that drive me apart. Always the omega. All because I run to my own heartbeat. Because my howl is my own. Because the pack would rule me when I…
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Boiling Point. by Alan Peat
Originally posted on Haiku Basecamp: Boiling Point. I sleep like a forgotten milk pan. At first dreams simmer on the stove of night – birds dive through my shuttered canopy; I watch from a rock in a sea of browning moss. Then the past rises up as insistent bubbles; at first at the edges of…
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three short poems
Originally posted on Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin: These are poems from the archives to follow Gardens, Time, Lessons. tree branchesbowed to the groundseemingly half-brokencovered with new leavesmy notebook of prayers different shapesof the rose bushand lilacs in the yardthey grew towardsthe light beginningin the areawhere we hadto take a tree downnew peony leaves
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Today’s Haiku (June 22, 2022)
Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 川音の方へ片寄り生簀鮎 黛 執 kawaoto no hô e katayori ikesu-ayu ??????????? gathering to the side ??????????? of a river sound ??????????? ayu in the fish pen ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Shu Mayuzumi from Haiku Dai-Saijiki (Comprehensive Haiku Saijiki), Kadokawa Shoten, Tokyo, 2006 Fay’s Note:? “ayu” (sweetfish) is a summer kigo.
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“the screech…” a #tanka (6/22/22)
6/22/22: overhead the screechof a hawk flyingoverheadthe sudden departureof the backyard squirrels #tanka #micropoetry #poetry
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mid-summer
Originally posted on Stella Pierides: mid-summer the fragrance of roses in the air . The beautiful roses are from a friend’s garden. (Fragrance from memory,)
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Fireflies!
Originally posted on thoughts and entanglements: on this first day of summer eve fireflies! Pat 6/20/22
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Originally posted on Echidna Tracks: summer heatbackpackers chillwithin hostel walls Rohan Buettel
Frank J. Tassone 