Starry night

                                                     "Starry Night"   Vincent van Gogh

starry night  

above rice fields, hills,  

white summer

~0~0

shooting stars

lighting midnight sky,

lantern sun

~0~0

wishing well

pocket full of coins,

moonlit face

     

~0~0

midnight dance   

full of promises, 

starry night

and for Theme Thursday:

ice cream swirls

chocolates, mints, nuts,   

melting blues 

melting blues

topped with strawberries,  

sweet as you

Posted for Poetry Jam:   Painting a Picture
Tackle it Tuesday:   Shooting Stars 
Theme Thursday:   Ice-Cream

Life

                                                                                      © Daryl Edelstein



i wanted to write about 
broken nose, splintered red cheeks, 
rough rat's hair and pebbled forehead
and how tough as a glass I am


but ever since I met you,
all I wanted to write about are fushcia and violet blooms in garden,
and how soft the sands are in my hands,  
I became whole again, 


In love with life




Linking up:   Imaginary Garden with Real Toads
and One Single Impression:   In love with life


Visit Philadelphia's Magic Garden to learn more about Isaiah Zagar and view Daryl's gallery HERE. 

Joy

pink petals

cleaving fragrant drops,  

joys of spring 

~0~0

music sheet

full of heart shaped notes, 

song of joy 

~0~0

wrapped in pink, 

she swivels and turns, 

mother's gem 

Commentary:   I was specially touched by Tarun's haiku for me ~ Thank you

Calm like a mother

you taught me this enchanting art

my haiku mother.

(I dedicate this haiku to you Grace for you have taught me and at times corrected my haiku. I have never seen you but I know that we have a heart-to-heart bond like a mother and son.)

Posted for Haiku Heights and Haiku My Heart 


Picture credit:   Reena of Missing moments 

The eye

white computer screen 
trains eye to spot the box edges, 
grey walls with polite glances and gestures


summer sun invites, glitters office window
a co-worker said she walked outside for a break
beautiful day to catch blue butterflies and goldfish


it could have been winter
mind on the cube full of files and sheets,  
details today, breakfast meeting tomorrow


black cane in hand, he proudly smiles 
as he wraps himself back to work like a busy bee, 
regained health now precious as a white diamond


i search while driving the busy freeway, moody as a crab,
ignoring thirst for cold yogurt and freshly buttered croissants,      
mind wanders on foot, overtaking huge trailer trucks  


full of merchandise, sales goals, expectations, hellos 
and goodbyes to busy people revolving the office doors, 
while my eye follows a seagull soaring above the orange lit sky 


gliding over the creek, a flash of silver plume in forest wild, 
     
it is a beautiful day 




Posted for D'verse Poets Pub:   Stream of Consciousness Writing


picture credit:   here


  

Don't

                                                      

it is much more than just 

hurtful words

spiteful taunts

aggressive actions 

bullying

can 

maim self esteem

destroy self confidence
strangling faith with a rope 

k i l l 

Say NO to Bullying !

Commentary:  I like that the Catholic grade school of my daughter is taking time out to teach the children about bullying and how to handle it.   They even provided a telephone help line to talk and report such bullying incidents.   My daughter has been intimated by an older female student before but she showed her claws in one encounter, so now they largely ignore each other.  My older son had fought a bully in the school ground, with a crowd watching, when he was young.   After this incident, he was never bullied again.   Is this the way to handle bullies?   I don't know but as a parent, I always tell my children to let us know if they have problems with anyone and to discuss it with us.                       

Linking up with  Poetry Jam:   Bully and  Theme Thursday:   Community

Rain

under leaf

frog hides from the rain,

falling bricks    

~0~0

the garden

awaits pouring rain,

empty cup 

~0~0

tiny frog 

jumps into the pond,   

dry of rain   

Posted for Tackle it Tuesday:  Chevrefeuille's Prompt is Frog
Poetry Form:  Haiku


Picture credit:   here  

Creek

the creek baits this spring morning
its gentle water rippling the cracked stones,
unbroken only by gulls catching the sun rays


I sit on the large boulder, casting out my fishing tackle
for school of fish, a broken twig or maybe a maple leaf
drifting above the overgrown moss, wild and untouched 


words crawl out from under pebbles, behind the forest trees, 
squirming past the squirrels, bounding after a woodpecker,
running the wooden trail, until they sink in my lap, drowsy


life is everywhere, not just a benefit in my office file, 
health is precious, not just a number I add up in my analysis sheet,
family means bonding, not a cause for declining a small case  


I angle my face to the calm wind,  flowing water    
standing, I throw my catch back into the sleeping creek,
cutting net, I know they will find me when I need them   


Posted for D'verse Poets Pub:   Poetics:   Tools of the Trade 


I walked with my son and daughter to the creek this morning.  What a lovely spring day ~

Pine

lush forest

brimming black verses, 

pining heart

~0~0

pines in the forest

flaming red in misty wild,

ink of my black pen 

~0~0

pine for the blue sky

white geese flying to the sun,

new page in my book

Posted for Haiku Heights and Poetry Jam:   Where is your forest
And Haiku My Heart


picture credit:  here

Forgotten meal

                                                                          The Meal, 1891, by Paul Gauguin

She places her half eaten guava on the table 
with a knife, she starts to slice the bananas, 
into the bowl of sweetened coconut milk, 
when she hears the music booming in the streets   


Putting down her apron, she stands up to peer
through the gates, where drums and dancers beat to the hot sun   
Banners and stilts proclaim the festival of the mother moon


Running to her closet, she unwraps the headdress and red clothes 
In the mirror, she sees a butterfly, gliding and swaying in the air  
With a smile, she goes out into the crowd, clapping her hands 


Twirling her arms to the rhythmic beat of native song,
She forgets the meal, the strings of duties that engulf her day
Specially on this day       

                                                                        © Peggy Goetz: Chinese Dancer

Happy Mother's Day ~ 

Picture prompts:   The Mag 117 and Imaginary Garden with Real Toads 

Mask

mask of fear   

cold as biting ice,   

stills the lips   

~0~0

we wear mask     

like thorns of roses,      

weary heart  

0~0

face of faith  

serene river edge,    

one strong rope  

Posted for:   Haiku Heights 
and Haiku My Heart 




picture credit:   here

Tea cup

light reflects table

wired by laptops, phones, music

cyberspace, twitterverse news sweep

the room in tidal waves

but for this corner

where

inside tea cup of

cherry and plum blooms,

hums a monk’s prayer

dwells a river

flowing with the wind  

pulsing with questions

with answers

I have yet to find   

Posted for D'verse Poets Pub:   Machine dreams

and Poets United 

picture credit:   here

Hour

one hour

can move turtle slow,

ice melting 

~0~0

one hour

can speed like a train,

circus rides

~0~0

an hour  

writing poetry,

red blooms burst     

Posted for Haiku Heights:    Hour  
and Haiku My Heart