Driftwood Phoenix

driftwood swam

Laid
bare,
barren,
broken down,
but pieces form art.
Driftwood rises above its end
forming a bird of legend with magical power,
spinning ashes to art, renewing the forlorn and forgotten, even transcending.

Copyright 2016 Brenda Davis Harsham

Notes: This is a Fibonacci Poem (0r “fib” for short). Each succeeding line is equal in syllable length to the total syllables in the preceding two lines, or: one, one, two, three, five, eight, thirteen, twenty-one, thirty-four, etc. I’ve written two other fibs, Star Fairy and Fairy Ball.

This poem will be my weekly Poetry Friday tiddly-wink of word play. Thanks Violet Nesdoly for hosting and posting that moving photo and poem about forest fires. My heart goes out to the people of Fort McMurray, Canada. And to the wildlife equally homeless. May everyone have a safe and magical weekend. Warmly, Brenda

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Cherry Blossoms

Thickly petaled cherry blooms

roses of springtime
wide ball skirts for fairies
who dance on clouds

Copyright 2016 Brenda Davis Harsham

Note: Happy Mother’s Day! I hope your day was full of warmth and love. 🙂

Cultivar

Yellow tulips with pointy petals

Six-pointed stars
cup sunshine,
burning white at
their pointy tips. Continue reading

Teachers Shine

tree with fairy lights

More numerous than
stars in the sky,
and burning just
as brightly,
our teachers help us
learn to shine,
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Dandelions Delight

Two Dandelions

Calling all bees,
if you please,
come get yellow
to your knees. Continue reading

Yorktown Sunset

Sunset at Yorktown Beach

Yorktown Beach is bespelled
by a paint-palette sky.
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Moons

Moon jelly fish Aurelia Aurita

Moon jellies drift,
pulsing and aglow,
in between
water and air.
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Pause

Fritillary butterfly with black stripes and white spots

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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Wishes Big and Small

via Listen — Adventures and Musings of an Arch Druidess

A Peak at the Bay

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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

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heart-shaped spots,
sun spots
flit, flutter and dance
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Lune a Lark

 

Tiger Striped Longwing Heliconius ismenius

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.

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The butterfly is a Tiger-Striped Longwing (Heliconius ismehius). The photo was taken at the Boston Museum of Science’s Butterfly Garden.