Happy Haiga Day!

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

November light

it appears the sun

has the power to put

the proverbial lipstick 

on this dirty old pig

of a river

  

Haiku Sticky #573

 © Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

covid lockdown
talking to the ducklings
on the Dawn bottle

Happy Haiga Day!

Last month I participated in a Spark postcard exchange.  Usually I write a short poem, digitally illustrate it, and print off a 4x6" copy to send as my postcard.  I impose upon myself a theme that I use to get me going.  In October my head was completely taken up by the presidential election, so, I didn't write poems.  Instead, I borrowed the words of another poet, Carl Sandburg, to illustrate using photos and illustrations in the public domain.  Sandburg's Good Morning, America (1928) collection contained a numbered list of 38 definitions of poetry.  Here are three of the postcards that I created using Sandburg's definitions #2, 14, and 21:

 

 

Haiku Sticky #572

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

one year after moving
one more box emptied
more than one to go

 

Happy Haiga Day!

 Just a random small poem for today.

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

Time of Drought

Crow does
not doubt
one rain
drop will
mean two
rain drops,
will mean
three,
then four.
Nor does
he doubt
death will
find him
if that one
rain drop
does not
fall
at all.

Haiku Sticky #571

 

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

two nights' sound sleep
too good to be ended
so soon

Happy Haiga Day!

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. 

Text:

waiting for fall to end

raking and bagging
raking and bagging

with patience new 

cooler winds will arrive
to blow the rest away

Haiku Sticky #570

 

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

election day hope
extra strength antacids
no longer needed

Happy Haiga Day!

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. 

Text:

those who pick
at her scabs hope
to topple her

voters may provide
the corrective

to keep her standing