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 
Love! My sleeping dog –even sleeping brings me so much comfort and joy. She’s a Christmas carol all on her own.
Aww, that is so sweet. The scent of your sleeping dog and your husband holding things, so adorable.
#23…so lovely…LOVEly. Yes, I know that dog scent. I love knowing that you are half a country away and as close to as a heartbeat as we write haiku. Sometimes that is my one moment of peace in the day, so I savor it. Sending virtual hugs!
Margaret, your poem reminds me of the scent my little dog used to have while sleeping in my lap. Though he is gone, I can still recall that smell. Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful, Margaret! I can smell that sleepy dog smell right now from the creature snoozing at my feet (who had a bath last week, so not as overpowering as usual!) I kind of prefer the coffee smell (but I love that you’ve included both…)
Nice, Margaret! Especially love what you did with Jane’s line.
Margaret- I love these! All of them! I could be a bear too, in hibernation in a warm cave right now– I wouldn’t care if I never had to go out into the cold. And the one about your husband. I immediately thought of my son, whose beautiful hands held a football forever, and are now way, way, way too empty. I may have to lift that line! And nothing better than a sleeping dog! Thanks for these! Merry Christmas!
Beautiful, especially the one “I know you by what you hold…” Wishing you and yours a blessed Christmas!