crowded, clustered
climbing an iron archway
tiny cottage roses
Copyright 2017 Brenda Davis Harsham
Category Archives: Poetry
Strawberry Moment
dusty road
farmstand strawberries
spring in my step
Notes: This was written in honor of Suzanne’s new haiku prompt site, On the Road. Continue reading
Silver Song
Will drops a berry in a stream.
It rolls and bounces along.
He thinks a dappled fish nibbles,
until he hears a silver song. Continue reading
Happy Father’s Day!
Happy Father’s Day! Continue reading
Ballooning
Like balloons, thoughts float,
spiraling up like hope,
like faith, like love.
If you let them.
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Moonlight Gloss
Moonlight glosses
dark waters.
Its silver light
beckons across
cold, silent space,
soothing us in our
troubled sleep. Continue reading
Room to Bloom
Like a flower, just opened,
hiding secrets
in my heart,
I have room to bloom,
to stretch and expand
into sunshine, Continue reading
Truth not Lies
June 4, 2017, I marched for Truth
among throngs of thousands.
For truth is more than a word.
Truth is right from wrong.
Truth is refuge and solace for
Americans, tall and small. Continue reading
Of Truth and Tyranny
Poppies for
remembrance.
Fallen soldiers.
Fallen journalists.
Blood spilled in fields.
We cannot sleep. Continue reading
The Art of Opposites
Audacity, reverence;
focus, dreaminess;
stone, flowers;
focus, dreaminess;
stone, flowers;
frozen fire, burning ice;
reticence, expletive;
truth, proof, belief;
reticence, expletive;
truth, proof, belief;
Happy Memorial Day
But now they lie low,
While over them the swallows skim,
And all is hushed at Shiloh.
And all is hushed at Shiloh.
— Herman Melville, from his moving civil war poem, Shiloh: A Requiem (April, 1862)
Orange News Stings
politics divide
but can’t be set aside
when the powerful
tell us we are powerless
then we must stand together
raise our voices
clamor to be heard
truth is more than a word
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