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Category Archives: 5-7-5
Early Spring
longer days still dark I shiver with the tulips winter’s chill in spring
Please Fasten Your Seat Belts
Today it is cold, wet and windy outside. From my living room, I watch jets coming in low as they approach PDX three miles to the south of my home. Usually they are high up and flying due south when … Continue reading
autumn wind
brisk October breeze chapped leaves rustle in complaint summer blows away
Posted in 5-7-5, Haiku, nature, Photography, poetry
Tagged autumn leaves, fall, haiku, red
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Construct
constructing constructs contradicts simplifying simplification Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Lines and Angles
Posted in 5-7-5, Haiku, photo challenge, Photography, poetry
Tagged angles, black & white, Cee's Black and White Photo Challenge, construction
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Droplets
Rain drops, water falls. Sometimes it gets sloshed and spills. Clumsy H2O.
Waking Up
Day Seven of NaPoWriMo. The prompt: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem of gifts and joy. What would you give yourself, if you could have anything? What would you give someone else? What better gift than … Continue reading
Posted in 5-7-5, daily prompt, Haiku, nature, poetry
Tagged 5-7-5, flowers, haiku, NaPoWriMo 2019, nature, spring
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Law of Nature
Mankind v. Gaia without blame or forgiveness justice will be served dVerse Poetics: Blame and Forgiveness
Alone Time
Chules is sick today. I can hear his tummy roiling from across the room. He’s been in- and outside at least a dozen times since morning. When I let him out, he beelines to the side yard fence, and tries … Continue reading
Posted in 5-7-5, Animalia, Haiku, Photography, poetry, prose
Tagged alone time, Chules, dVerse, eskie, haibun, pets, solitude
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for all to see
Shed no tears; wear them. Shed not your humanity. Wear love on your sleeve. dVerse Poetics prompt: Shed
grayce notes
monochrome music nuance plays upon nuance melodies in gray Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Music
Posted in 5-7-5, Haiku, photo challenge, Photography, poetry
Tagged 5-7-5, CB&W, Cee's Black and White Photo Challenge, haiku, music, nuance, piano, poetry
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