oil spill - june 17 - five line

congress

excoriates

BP - I water

purple flowers

heat rises

oil spill - june 17 - five line

mourning news

gulls cry prayers over

Louisiana

congress holds

a hearing

oil spill - june 16 - five line

pelicans

rise first over

dawngold sea

ancient flight path

to extinction

oil spill - june 16 - five line

morning news

we are at war

with the earth

still she spews and

shakes us off

oil spill - june 15 - five line

i muse on

morning glories

future blue

while oil spews

black water

garden - five line

vines twine

sunward

soon will be

blue flowers

i wait

april 6

that Walt Whitman
grass before the first mow
you long to loaf
deep in green fields
covered in clover

april 5

ginger cat
in daffodils
wind

april 4

pear trees
abandon pearl white
petals to the wind

april 3

periwinkle vine
creepsup my front steps
same color as a
wool scarf i wore
last week

april 2

i cross
the dark river
bridge hums
a warning
song

April First - Poem A Day

tanka april 1

birdsong pierces
dawn neongreen splits
vision time warps
the lemon
moon