More Pictures to Ponder (JM)

 

A Sad State (JM)

 

If this forest was logged

would this small stream be protected? 

Sadly, right now, no it would not.

Come Sabbath (JM)

 

Saint Patrick's, Our little Orthodox community on the coast 

Accompaniment (WC)

  

(Wendy Cabell, April 17, 2024 feast day of Our Lady of Miracles (above), Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, and Blessed Mariana of Jesus. Image from here.)

Accompaniment

(a few senryu)

1.

evening argument 

with Joseph, heart’s balloon deflates 

greets dawn’s sunrise

2.

“I’m part bear”, he says

“and part human”, I remind 

he ambles to man cave

3.

for inner sweetness

he drops honey in his tea

sticky

hands

leave

trail...

*From prompt: Write in the form of a senryu, similar to haiku but with focus on the wit and irony of human foibles rather than a focus on nature; can do traditional 5-7-5 syllable structure, or follow modern trend of flexible syllable count. From Lynn Skapyak Harlin’s Senryu workshop (Hope at Hand’s Jax Poetry Festival), April 17, 2024.