Haiku Heads or Tails

Skittles of Heads or Tails posts: This week's theme/prompt is:
HEADS - Shake


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aspen
shimmy in sunlight
fall breeze

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do not stir
shake two times, no more
Bond's choice

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Watercolor Sketch by Sue...

poetry watercolor

Fleeting Haiku

One Single Impression posts: Nancy Bea Miller of Genre Cookshop offers us this week's prompt of fleeting. Please feel free to follow the links to read the posts and to join in this lively meme...

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Perseids
with summer in tow
fall from sight

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tempestuous scene
unrestrained thunder applauds
summer storm moves on

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poetry and photos

Embroidery

Michelle at Poefusion Friday 5 offers the following five words for this week's prompt.

fatigue
embroidery
secluded
monotonous
thaw

My response:

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embroidery on full boughs
late-autumn rime
settles on secluded pines

fatigue, the monotonous
cousin of the ennui tribe,
shawls her shoulders

snowbound, she dreams hunger
dreams of sugar dusted gems
in the rum cake set out to thaw

dreams of going home
dreams of the spring ferry
coming to reclaim her

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fractals

Taste of Warm

Tiel at Totally Optional Prompts posts that she's on the road this week and won't have time to put a prompt together. So, for this week at TOP: share whatever you'd like.


I chose an older poem - one which I could write each year at this time...

Taste of Warm

I ache to swallow summer
without paring or pitting
hold it inside warm and rich
while winter
slings shards of ice
frigid wind rises in the night
moans through canyons
like the cry of a loon
vibrating mountain-tall pines
with threat
wild enough to crack my bones,
when grey eats the sun and moon
and clothing knots my easy walk
I want to swallow summer whole.

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