Poetry Friday--Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm wearin' the green, are you?

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Text:

the fog lifts...
yet figments and fancies
linger

Have a great St. Patrick's Day and include a visit to Life on the Deckle Edge, where Robyn is holding today's Round-Up.

Haiku Sticky #400

This is the 400th haiku sticky! Holy cows!

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Happy Haiga Day!

Friday was an interesting day weather-wise. We had snow, but the sun made a mighty effort to poke its way through.

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Text:

March squall...
intimations of spring
cannot be eclipsed

Poetry Friday--Woodcut Project

This week I've been working on some woodcut project poems. A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Here are two. The first is not quite successful visually, but I like the poem.

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Text:

her schedule filled
she always manages
a daydream


This next one actually depresses the hell out of me. In the background I have forest facts from Save America's Forests. But all aspects of the environment are in danger. Enough said.

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Text:

when greed
has overcome need
how to survive
if our only pathway
ends in annihilation


Look for a brighter batch of poems at the Poetry Friday Round-Up being held at Today's Little Ditty.

Haiku Sticky #399

I completely forgot last week's Haiku Sticky! For today I have a tanka instead of a haiku--a few extra words to make up for last week's deficit.

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Happy Haiga Day!

Playing with image and text and effects--it's always a process of discovery!

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Text:

late winter walk
the amity of their dogs
infectious

Poetry Friday--Someone's Having a Birthday Soon!

A photo of Billy Collins and Rita Dove that I took back in October 2010 at the Dodge Festival. I was too far away to get a clearer shot.

Later this month, on the 22nd, poet Billy Collins will be celebrating his 76th birthday. Bloggers are celebrating a little early by posting poems by Bill Collins, today. The one I'm sharing is a recent discovery that I love for its whimsy and for the unasked question with which it leaves the reader.

The Flying Notebook

With its spiraling metal body
and white pages for wings,
my notebook flies over my bed while I sleep--

a bird full of quotations and tiny images
who loves the night’s dark rooms,
glad now to be free of my scrutiny and my pen point.

Tomorrow, it will go with me
into the streets where I may stop to look
at my reflection in a store window,

and later I may break a piece of bread
at a corner table in a restaurant
then scribble something down.

But tonight it flies around me in circles
sailing through a column of moonlight,
then beating its paper wings even more,

once swooping so low
as to ripple the surface of a lake
in a dream in which I happen to be drowning.

From The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, (Random House, 2005).

Heidi at My Juicy Little Universe is hosting the Poetry Friday Round-Up. I can guarantee there will be more Billy Collins poems!