Poetry Friday: Summer Haiku

I haven’t been posting much lately at Wild Rose Reader. My attentions have turned to other things in recent weeks--doing research for and writing a new collection of poems, cleaning out my basement and closets, and working on plans for the 45th reunion of my high school class and for our reading council’s 2008-2009 Speaker Series.

This morning I went looking for some drafts of summer haiku poems that I could post today. These are not polished haiku--but I HAD to post on Poetry Friday! By the way, our weather here in Massachusetts has been horrible this summer--damp, gray, cool, rainy. The forecast is for more of the same today. So…with this weather in mind, I wrote the first haiku a few minutes ago.


This August day
Sun has hobbled away
Sky seems old and gray

Luna moth
flutters around our porch light
thinking it’s the moon

Moths cling to our
kitchen screen, sunbathing on
a summer evening

Wafting into air,
campfire sparks…lightning bugs
dancing in the dark

Barefoot in dewy
grass, my toes drink the nectar
of a summer night

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At Blue Rose Girls, I have a poem entitled A. M. Fog by Mark Jarman.

The Poetry Friday Roundup is at Becky’s Book Reviews.

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