Well, it's been awhile since my beloved Poetry Sisters and I
have banded together to make merry.
Life, as you know, interferes.
But as we chatted during National Poetry Month,
we thought of an easy way to rectify that:
haiku!
We worked together on a renku — a string of haiku and 2-lined stanzas — linked seasonally and semantically.
Andromeda debuted it on her blog this morning and I'm going to share it here, too:
The Poetry Sisters' Daisy Chain
fall leaf in April
wearing last season's fashions–
shunned by the green crowd lps
nature’s first green is gold
progeny emerge in flame aj
white melts into green
gardens blush Crayola proud
blooming shades of spring tsh
strolling down the pebble path
rose-cheeked dreamer lost in thought aj
palest pink dogwood
April breezes whisper by
petals flutter down kf
ink dries on palest pages
garden rows plow down sillion aj
Brash green garter snake
Hoe laid beside June daisies
Book and tart limeade sh
serpent jewel, puckered words,
work abandoned, glory claimed aj
afternoon drifts by
wispy clouds, half-closed eyelids
distant playground sounds lps
cloud congestion, dully pewter
petrichor from distant patters td
tapped on leaden skies td
rain’s persistent percussion
arrhythmic ad lib
a morse-code chicken scratch lgs
a fresh start too hard to resist
the rain leaves its mark — lgs
such an inscrutable plot
begs to be re-read
red again so soon and down
persimmon fingers shiver aj
(Much love and credit to Laura Purdie Salas, Andromeda Jazmon, Tricia Stohr-Hunt, Kelly Fineman, Sara Lewis Holmes and Laura Purdie Salas…)
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