tilted parasol we sip our summer cocktail two straws in one glass Kim M. Russell, 2nd June 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1694 summer cocktails This month’s Haiku Kai is all about summer love, and today the theme is ‘summer cocktails’.
Day: July 2, 2019
Song of the Ornery Oak
I am an old oak bowed by years, knee-deep in my fractured limbs, leafless, bare of bark and splintered, destroyed by lightning in a storm. I am an old oak fraught with scars, and here you are with saw and axe already stained with another tree’s sap – I’ve anchored my roots to thwart your […]
Two Hearts – a tanka suite
walking together in a meadow of yellow buttery cowslips filled with the humming of bees honey-sweet as a first kiss a crown of petals daisy-chained by our fingers dusty with pollen trails on the summer breeze snags in overhanging leaves knee-deep in grasses on the edge of the meadow our fingertips touch with an exchange […]
