Covid decoction
Looking out and staying in
Two years in a jar
Becky
Tag: poetry
28 words
sliver of silver
moon held by apricot clouds
mid-summer twilight
glide by
crow flies
homeward
from a cobalt sky
seagulls skate the wind and
glide into the sun
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Storm at the Beach
The wind sweeps the beach
Pushing seagulls off their paths
And tourists homeward
Gusts surge and explode
Attacking windows and doors
Shrieking, “Let me in!”
Furious tempest
Drives the winter rain sideways
Cold settles in bones
Becky
photo bkjelstrom
Marigold, La Calendula
Ancient Aztec flower
Lady of the Dead’s beloved
Mark of fragile life
Curer of hiccups
Healer of the lightning-struck
Path to the living
Becky
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haiku
purple artichoke
small hawk in the blue birdbath
absolute august
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Haiku for April
high above bracken
fern and foxglove Mother crow
sings her lullaby
Image by Robin Anderson
Transitory
Sand, rocks and seaweed
Find temporary home on
Ever shifting shore
photo by Becky
Seafoam
Haughty sea gulls hop
Among sparkles of seafoam,
Dying jellyfish
photo BKjelstrom
Koi
looking down
into the koi pond
I see a rainbow reflected
from the sky above
If I look up
will I see
koi swimming
in the clouds?
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farewell, 1995
virga-veiled sunset gleams greenly
Spring, too full of life
paints the sky.
bloated apricot clouds hang
in aqueous air
almost midnight.
Solstice light now for coven
witchy word women huddle
and prepare one of their own.
tell stories of bayous thunderstorms snakes
pirates and pigs
Strange romance.
funny things these heart
Strings
begin but never end.
later, mist shrouded moon
Speeds my flight home
godspeed yours.
to parched, foreign place
you will make it bloom
with your words.
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