| Mary Barnet
USA
I heard...(Traditional Haiku)
The birds sing in Spring
At first light of dawn
The last hoot of the night-owl.
There
The sun falls hard on my back
The crow caws
Caws again & again
The rays beat
Beat on my scalp
My feet pad the earth
The earth is mine
May I rest there
There 'neath that tree
May it bear fruit
Fruit
That nourishes generations
Again & again...
(Children's Haiku after Lewis Carol & 'Winnie the
Pooh') :
Within
I hear the squigg'ling
My tumkins squawks so
Frimsey is born thus in me.
One Summer Evening at the Block Party
As the small boys raced up & down the crowded sidewalks
You put my four year old patent leather feet on your shoes
And danced to the music of old Italian men
In the orchestra that
Serenaded the entire neighborhood
On our street closed off to the traffic
Under cast-off christmas lights.
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