http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/Attempting the Sonnet - neither Donne, nor Shakespeare or Petrarch. Then there are easier things to do in poetry--for me!hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/543072WHEN THE CHERRY BLOSOOMS HAVE GONE look below, closer to the ground a five-pointed star is your's cherry blossoms may have gone others litter the ground nay, remind us of past and future Glory! Creation is full of generosity http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2315/2440561676_2556f42ed1.jpg?v=0http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/542543POEM: Nazis may not all have tired of killing; some did The butchers in Rwanda did not all feel sordid, ready to retch out their hate mixed with their insides; and tonight in America, two leaders may cast off knives The hatemongers in South Africa did not win Not every white joined the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/542125HAIKU/SENRYU pollen and eagles take flight with Biblical force fears and joys of spring HAIKU farmers trap gophers... ready to sow corn; fruit trees smile - and weedwhackers! http://ecochildsplay.com/files/2008/03/blueberries-1.jpghttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/541767Memorial Day 2008 I In breathless spring when it's hot or very warm we feel only love, loss, and some profit in May: Someone knows where the flowers have gone II I will not exaggerate, suffice it now to state you have given all: wafer and wine on sacred plate for American Freedom, defined by...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/541395POEM: My novel in Poetry form I A theme that seeks truth of our condition Of course, from my perspective, in fiction But I do think man is the serpent in Eden Had he defended Eve! In projecting blame man and his ilk have perpetuated sin. II My theme goes further: without changing gender My hero,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/541044http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/sb10064938c-001.jpg?v=1&c=CFW&k=2&d=945615F327018FDE6ECF2AC03DA4E4E0C8CEFD8943FE7C95C7631F868A8C7D54 HAIKU #1 church leaders speak out - we discriminate: God's men... Wright not wrong twice. POEM: IS WRIGHT WRONG? he speaks, claims he will minister after November...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/540571POEM: LOOKING without SEEING when April clouds and showers pelt and flow buds, birds and weeds quickly grow do you see the sun glowing on the horizon? when life's ingratitudes snowball all one's reputation with friends and siblings fall do you see at all, the peach blossoms you own? after...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/539820have nested in my balcony, but there have been some casualties. The mourning doves, the common smooth light brown, beady eyed, friends, return to my plant pot every year. So, here is my poem and haiku (in reverse order): HAIKU Mom and Pa Finch nest raise four new purple finches Sparrow... I fail...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/535997http://www.carrollvalley.org/OurViewCarrollValley/spring.jpg HAIKU #1 when magnolia burst spring cannot retreat; hope skips to ev'ry color HAIKU #2 mondo grass and teas add weight to the sun we escape winterhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/YPunday28/535372GOD MADE WOMEN FOR PEACE AND LOVE On the radio, a faltering female voice pleading for racial peace and dignity reminding me of what I adore in friends - right here, at least a trio, Holy Trinity I know I must get over my Mom's passing Hovering around my half century mark Why should I saddle...