Kudzu Festival

a little satire comparing kudzu to racism

It’s called the front porch vine. It grows over everything and makes for comfort with its shade. Easy to propagate, just get the right tools. The roots are huge and spreading, deep-rooted and hard to pull out. Pretty much were rid of it, ten years may pass, and here it is again.

There are lots of uses for it. It can bring folks together like a festival, a klan or even a government. Folks use it for their own advantage and many like to profit from it. It can get stirred up into a drink. It is warm and feels good. Takes the craving off of everything else when drinking kudzu tea.

I Want You To See

I want you to see this
Be vigilant 
See yourself
Did you boast
Did you hold back
When you should speak
Did you speak 
When you should be still
Listen
Look
Feel
What details will be revealed!

Triple Shot

Feel the eyelids drooping

Can’t stay awake

Haven’t had my coffee

It’s almost afternoon

Could go back to sleep

Take a little nap

Instead I do a triple shot

Get caffeine in the veins

Saute

  

even the vegetables look like a garden in winter

The Road

rains came

sometimes only a drizzle

or a pouring out all day

slope of the terrain meant it would not pool

rather it made a tiny groove in the crushed gravel

 

winter came and it rained and rained

groove went deeper into the road until it was a rut

Now tires might get stuck

a flash flood would wash it away

that would keep the people out

the road needs maintenance 
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dVerse prompt on the word groove – I have too many roads that need maintenance 
 

 

 

Mustard Seed Faith

It takes just a little bit

No doubt

The word is true

If you have faith and do not doubt

From Bicycles to Airplane

Wright brother Orville

At the top of the hill trying to fly

From a little toy that built a dream

Building bikes

Need balance

Don’t fall off

Leave the ground

Let’s stay up not go down

Watch the turkey vulture fly

Wilbur went day dreaming

Built a lite glider

Need for a windy place

Privacy

Kitty Hawk

Wrote a letter

Answer yes we can

Wide open space

Lots of sand

Wind like the Sahara desert

Little boy Tommy Tate

First to fly

Two minute flight for Wilbur

Went home to Ohio

Built a wind tunnel

1902 off the sand dune

a thousand times

Roll

Pitch

Yaw

These three created flight

A Clearing

My daughter and her husband purchased five acres of land, lots of trees on it and a pond.  There is an old house there, three sheds about to fall over, two old boats that might still float, an aluminum travel trailer that hasn’t traveled since 1998, and lots of work.  She says she is feeling overwhelmed.

I remember when my husband and I were young and worked all day on weekends to clear land to build a house.  I tell her that I don’t know how we did it.  I can still clear brush and trim branches and find a yellow McCoy mouse cookie jar discarded in weeds.  She too will find her surprises.

 

old abandoned house

still remnants of who was here

earth cycle passes

 

dVerse haibun prompt on surprises – the big surprise was that the cookie jar wasn’t broken

Night Shelling

Under a super moon

Even the tides were on our side

Going out with the starlit

Moonlight change to dawn

Crunch return path

Under the belt of Orion

Trees that have always marked the way

Look different now

Their silhouette on the horizon

Unmoving

 

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dVverse quadrille prompt to use the word crunch – the sound of feet crunching the shells on a beach walk