Poetry Friday is with Buffy at Buffy’s Blog.
I am an early riser. So most of my haiku writing happens early in the morning. Yesterday I wrote on Laura Purdie Salas’s Thursday 15 Words or Less post in response to an image of a gorilla statue.
#22
I could be a bear
dreaming of spring’s abundance
safely hiding now.
Charlie sits in my lap while I write. Do you know that a sleeping dog has a certain scent?
Today I read Jane Yolen’s poem for the day. I stole her line, “I know you by what you hold.” This one is for my husband of 34+ years.
#23
Peanut, the dog’s ball–
I know you by what you hold–
Lightbulb, fruit, my heart.–Margaret Simon
The haiku-a-day challenge started by Mary Lee Hahn connects a community of writers:
Heidi Mordhorst at My Juicy Little Universe
Mary Lee Hahn at Poetrepository
Linda Mitchell at A Word Edgewise
Buffy Silverman at Buffy’s Blog
Jone Rush MacCulloch at DeoWriter
Diane Mayr, posted on Thursdays at Random Noodling
Julie Johnson at Raising Readers and Writers
Catherine Flynn at Reading to the Core
Carol Varsalona at Beyond LiteracyLink
Carol Wilcox at Carol’s Corner
Julianne Harmatz tweeting @jarhartz
Linda Baie at Teacher Dance
Michelle Heidenrich Barnes at Today’s Little Ditty
Reflections on the Teche 