Guiding Purpose Of Lightning Bugs: ImproVerse Haiku
don’t guide anyone, but then/
learned their real purpose.
When planting gardens, / you shouldn’t confuse okra/ pods with Orca pods.
Solo sycamore leaves catch the hot afternoon breeze and spin in joyous pinwheels on Independence Day, as if to say: “Welcome home, boy. We’re glad you’ve come. Don’t Roam. Stay.”
I emersed me in/ woods, hoping to stop dying./ I must bathe more oft.
This evening, just before the sun set, I walked around the edge of my driveway, taking photos of tree in my yard (specifically on the edge of my property). I was stunned by the bio-diversity of this small plot of land. within the distance I can throw a baseball (which isn’t very far), I have…
I sit deep in my deciduous and cedar woods, shaded, sweltering in the hot afternoon Georgia heat. The still air, like an open oven, stifles me. I must escape. But just as I start to rise, a cool breeze starts from the creek bottom below, racing across the newly-mown fields. Wind rushes like a cresting…
I’m cross-posting these poems in my CyranoWriter.com creative writing blog.