Come
into the garden
at dawn
before
dew dries
from the dragonfly
Come
as the sun
filters
through cedars
to glow
on the rippled
waters of pond
Come
with trowel and seed
energy
to last all day
pluck a weed
don’t forget
to feed
hungry peonies
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NaPoWriMo Day 19 prompt to write a command poem. This is my garden commanding me to get to work.
Write about a seed in the garden
how it was placed in rich soil
when temperature warmed
your patience required
before there was a sprout
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NaPoWriMo Day 4 prompt to write a prompt poem concerning a prompt.
In the sunlight
those wooden pins hold
against the wind
clipped on tight
holding cloth and line
blue shirt bellows out
it is sailing
across a sea of grasses
moored in this place
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dVerse prompt to pick a picture of the wind and write a poem
I thought it was Spring
but things are not always what they seem
last night it snowed
wind whipped over my rose
will the buds survive
as weather drops below twenty five
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dVerse prompt on proverb or adage. “Things are not always what they seem” from Aesop’s Fables Bee-keeper and the Bees. I thought we were having an early Spring here in the NW. Not so.
This patch of ground
fertile soil holding
early pea seed
planted along the fence
golden edible pea pods
(I’m anxious for a stir fry—
hope of a harvest)
while underground
furry predator tunnels
eats them up
before they can sprout
no Spring pea patch
Field is plowed
not yet planted
need rain
enough to keep
the soil down
a rich bed for seed
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NaPoWriMo Day 29 prompt on out the window. Written while traveling through Iowa.
I am traveling through the Ozarks as I have a number of times, same highway, same destination. This time is different. The dogwood trees are in bloom, their flowers making thickets of white in a low canopy among tall oaks.
Where I am, surrounded by Ozark Mountains, the sun is setting and now the quiet water of the Lake of the Ozarks reflects the moon.
Spring in the mountains
flowers of many colors
open up to me
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dVerse prompt for a haibun in a state of now
words read in Japan
centuries past in Spring
fill the room with song
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NaPoWriMo prompt to write concerning a piece of art from the collection of the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Two Women Reclining on the Floor of a Room and Reading a Book, ca 1730, monochrome woodblock print, ink on paper, Nishikawa Sukenobu
Shall we go?
One will shovel
One will hoe
Feel the dirt
Between our toes
Work until sunlight goes
Shall we go?
Shall we go?
Turn the soil
Don’t say no
Need to ready
Soil is what we know
Make plants want to grow
Shall we go?
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NaPoWriMo prompt on an inspiration from music. This is a spring song for entering into the ground breaking work of gardening.
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