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Category Archives: Poetry
Doorway to Spring
Glimpses of green
newly seen,
make my heart sing,
ah, spring. Continue reading
Yorktown Sunset
Yorktown Beach is bespelled
by a paint-palette sky.
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Moons
Moon jellies drift,
pulsing and aglow,
in between
water and air.
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A Great Nephew and a Great Aunt, Guests-Brenda Harsham and Son, Kyle
Penny Parker Klostermann has published a poem by me, and an illustration by my son, Kyle. If you’ve been curious about what my kids look like, you can see a couple here. 🙂 Happy Earth Day and Happy Poetry Friday!
Ants may rule the hill, but they don’t rule here! Art by Landon (Click to Enlarge)
Happy National Poetry Month!
Hello, Great Readers of our series! Just In case you haven’t visited before, let me tell you a little about A Great Nephew and A Great Aunt. My great nephew, Landon (a sixth-grader) and I (his great aunt) collaborate. I write a poem which he illustrates. We started this collaboration in the fall of 2014 and have had so much fun with it that we decided to invite others along. Landon and I will continue to have a new episode on the second Friday of each month. The other Fridays are filling up quickly with guests.
I have created a page on my website to view all the episodes of A Great Nephew and a Great Aunt. Click HERE to visit the page and enjoy past episodes.
Today it’s my pleasure to share a creative collaboration from…
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Pause
A moment to test the air,
pause and consider,
plan where to go next.
Is that a text? Dang!
Email skirmish,
phone rings, text again.
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Fierce Glow
Wishes Big and Small
A Peak at the Bay
One last effort to
find the shore
before the
Chesapeake Bay Bridge,
we turn toward
Cape Charles.
Two miles. What will we find?
A longer trip, for one.
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Turning Circles
heart-shaped spots,
sun spots
flit, flutter and dance
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Lune a Lark
butterfly spreads wings
a lark sings
oh, the joy spring brings
Copyright 2016 Brenda Davis Harsham
Note: This is my first attempt at a lune, and I was in a rhyming mood. A lune is a haiku variant with syllable count of 5-3-5 instead of the usual 7-5-7. Morgan wrote a magical one. I know I saw one a few weeks ago on Poetry Friday, but then I lost track of who’d written it. If it was you, let me know, and I’d be happy to link up.
Thanks to Michelle Heidenrich Barnes, a prolific poet and champion of poetry, at Today’s Little Ditty for hosting Poetry Friday.
The butterfly is a Tiger-Striped Longwing (Heliconius ismehius). The photo was taken at the Boston Museum of Science’s Butterfly Garden.
Scilla Song
You should sing the blues,
but your music’s too sweet,
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Friendly Fairy Tales 