The Lake

Leave your desk. Outside
a lake awaits. You dreamed of
this when you were young.

Morning Meditation

With or without me

the sun rises; might as well

hit snooze one more time

Promising (Catch-up Haikus for NaPoWriMo Day 9 and 10)

A boy’s shadow stretched

Beneath the basketball hoop

On the dry driveway

A napping dog stretched

Beneath a barely budding

Japanese maple

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In the aftermath of the migraines, I am resorting to haiku to get me all caught up.  I hope to have more substantial offerings this weekend.

Rage (NaPoWriMO Day 5)

My spring softening
froze over upon seeing
deer eat my tulips


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Present

"Woman with crossed arms" Picasso

A thousand small hurts
tenderly tied with ribbon
of sharp rusty wire

alone in the dark
unopened and indignant
plot quiet revenge

This prompt is loosely based on one or more of this week's prompts at Big Tent Poetry.

Status Update

When you text your friends

under the desk in my class

I can still see you

Your smart phone does not

make you invisible, dude

there's no app for that

wrong way

I rounded off the
corners only to be left
with nowhere to turn

Today's NaPoWriMo prompt from readwritepoem was to "get scrappy" and use a piece of an unfinished poem. So, I took this scrap and made a haiku. It's all I've got in me today, apparently, but I kind of like it.