#32 POETRY =

By Charles Robert Lindholm 

Poetry =

Summer Rain

Summer Rain

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Can you smell the summer rain

As it trickles, trickles, trickles down

Washing away the grime and stain

Appeasing the thirsty ground.

#Tanka:Awash

Awash in a sea

Tides roll to the distant shores

Her Smile Warms the Sun

Her legs impart their strength unto the cedars;
Her arms instruct the honeybee to work;

The Sound of Night

The Sound of Night

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Listen to the whisper of crisp autumn leaves

Where by design, He magnificently weaves

An aria of sweet music for the weary soul

Void of silence broken as darkness slows.

~ Haiku

~ Haiku
Poppy fields abloom

Scarlet fuses the color wheel

The Collector

The Collector

-Linda Lee Lyberg

How lovely is the bumble bee

As he floats from flower to flower

Storing pollen on his knees

Seeking bounty under the bower.

~ Dawn Dawning

~ Dawn Dawning
Toes filter frothy foam

Low tide relaxes

As if a pulled back sheet,

Feeding Frenzy

Morning

Sunny new day

Intense heat once again

Love birds feeding furiously

Daisy Love

Daisy Love

-Linda Lee Lyberg

As I pluck each tender blade

From this beautiful daisy

He loves me, He loves me not

I ask, am I sane or indeed crazy?

Plumeria in Winter – Haiku

~

Dead corals or what?
Frangipani naked stems
Dream of perfumed blooms

© 2017 Irina Dimitric

-23.07.17_11:53-

He looks at me
Peeking out from

warm colors

the sun steps, feet
pressing into
green foliage, washing
her limbs in the blue and
ivory seas – the earth

I Sit

I Sit

-Linda Lee Lyberg

I sit

In the quiet

Waiting for the day’s end

Watching the shadows move and race

Nature’s thrash-metal show

A clue when the sun
hides away from the day
and the mugginess grows
as the sky becomes grey
Then, as evening approaches
a splatter of rain
It looks like a storm
is brewing again

A rumble of thunder
as the night-time comes round
But in the gaps and the stillness
there’s barely a sound

~ Haiku

~ Haiku

Abundant berries

Sweets readily consumed

Congregating birds
O’Prunty

7/17

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summer sun

afternoon heat splashes
across parking lots,
making the air
wiggle and squirm –

Cups For Each Other

​down frozen teeth

come foxes from your arm

eyes cloaked in red

~ Haiku Cyclet

~ Haiku Cyclet

I

 

Stretching, Dawn yawned

Light plays upon horizons

Sirens seeking sailors

II

Moon Kiss

Moon Kiss

-Linda Lee Lyberg

When the moon kisses the sea

The waters are peacefully still

And night becomes so bright.

Green Four

Seven colours, seven days
and green’s the next in line
The fourth one in the rainbow
and one that’s very fine

For it speaks to me of life itself
and the good things oft bestowed
on each of us ‘most every day
from all that nature grows

~ Haiku

Weather beaten vane

Whipping winds and metal clash

#Tanka: Sunshine & Animals

Sunshine baking earth

Dust devils dancing about

Heat waves emanate

Produce (aka ‘Allotment V’)

Imagine our amazement
when this evening on Ham Field
we discovered our allotment
had delivered its first yield
Some courgettes and a squash or two
which in the sunshine haven’t lingered
Leading us to think that we
may well be quite green-fingered!

Angel’s Trumpet

Angel’s Trumpet

-Linda Lee Lyberg

With her wings wrapped around

She looks serenely on

At the world that surrounds her

Where infinite life abounds.

Trees

Shafts of cellulose stretching to the sky
Leafed about with greens

~ Haiku

~ Haiku
Uprooted Oak tree

Broken branches lie, decay

Roots lost to the winds
O’Prunty
6/10/17
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nine lives of fog

fog peered over the fence
shyly curling fingers around
cold tree knuckles, warming
their hands chilled by