National Poetry Month 2019: I am playing with poetry alongside Mary Lee Hahn, Jone Rush MacCulloch.Christie Wyman, Molly Hogan, and Catherine Flynn.
Today I read aloud Hi, Koo, a book of seasonal haiku poems by John Muth. Then we played with Paint Chips to make seasonal haiku of our own.
I found that I didn’t have to add many words to the Paint Chips to create a poem. I wrote one about every season.
Fall
Boundary Waters
pyramid of grizzly rocks
hot-potato skip, hop.
Winter
Inside a dew drop,
memories of rainstorm,
blizzard, sea foam.
Spring
A verdant seedling
in left field–succulent
Garden of Eden.
–Margaret Simon (drafts) 2019
Reflections on the Teche 
Winter is my favorite…though I hesitated to write that because we got a fair amount of snow here today and I’m not feeling too happy about that. I love, love the memories of that dew drop!
What a lovely collection, Margaret. Great inspiration, too! Love that seedling in left field!
These are wonderful. I especially love your “Spring.” “Verdant field,” and “left field succulent”…Wow! That paints a lovely picture in my mind and just the sound of it is lovely.