Make Way for the New!

 

Rhododendron bursts

With its full violet splendor.

Lilacs have turned brown.

Memorial Day;

Sun is shifting with the clouds;

Small breeze lifts the leaves.

Buttercup lights up

The breezy cool gray morning.

A hoarse rooster crows.

Soft, pale,  and purple--

Clover springs up near the road.

(Enjoys the traffic?)

A single daisy

Although somewhat bedraggled

Shines her own fine lights.

Lilacs have turned brown,

Forsythia blooms long gone.

Make way for the new!

Perched on a broad leaf

A single drop of water

Holds sway like a king.

Stream bed is barren,

Yet the sky is full of rain.

When will the two meet?

 

Boys and Girls and Cow

Summer is settling

Through the bright translucent leaves

Into warm softness.

Fly climbs the window

While facing through the glass wall.

(What is he thinking?)

Boy and girls and cow

Each enjoying their own world

On the sunny lawn.

First rhododendrons

Pop up--multicolored eggs 

Before they burst free.

Nestled in the green

Blue myrtle flower reclines

In late Spring languor.

Burst of pink color

In front of the empty house

Overfills the air.

Bulls eye in the road;

Somebody hit the target?

(What is the target?)

In a Verdant Key

 

New bloom in window;

Sweet smell of lilacs mixes

With roasting coffee.

Cluster flies cluster

In their suicide mission

On kitchen window.

Flat against window

Snowy white and unmoving:

Daytime evening moth.

Unwieldy pampas

Flowing in all directions

Create wilderness.

Mysterious slab

Propped on its edge in the light--

A blank sun dial.

Deaf cat on the lawn

Only turns its head towards me

When I walk past it.

Green on green on green

Forest sings its springing song

In a verdant key.

On the old mail box

Flowers have entwined themselves--

White softness on steel.

Bears have been busy

Overturned trash cans attest

To midnight pleasure.