19 April 2020 (butterfly)

pandemic spring

a mourning cloak

passes me by

18 April 2020 (birthday)

(Yesterday was my husband’s birthday.)

happy birthday

singing it twice now

before we eat cake

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happy birthday

washing our hands

also a celebration

17 April 2020 (nurse)

In honor of International Haiku Poetry Day I contributed to the 2020 Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration. This year’s theme was “the nurse.”

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nurse grandmother

we say mammary glands

not boobies

17 April 2020 - International Haiku Poetry Day

Today is International Haiku Poetry Day!

If you’re interested in learning how to write haiku, I’ve created a worksheet for the day in lieu of the in-person workshop and ginko that I was going to do at my local library. Find that HERE! Hope you find you enjoy writing haiku as much as I do…

16 April 2020 (Zoom)

Zoom meeting

the casual appearances

of cats

15 April 2020 (river)

high water

a kayaker sails through

our backyard

14 April 2020 (river)

spring flooding

the river goes back

to its old ways

13 April 2020 (river)

river in flood

one way

to sweep things clean

12 April 2020 (outage)

power outage

the small running engine

of the song sparrow

And on the fourth day, there was power!

10 - 11 April 2020 (storm)

spring snowstorm

the candlelight

not so romantic

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spring snowstorm

all the fallen branches

budding

9 April 2020 (dreams)

every night

the island

of my dreams