Welcome to Poetry Friday! Ruth is hosting HERE. Thank you, Ruth for hosting.
We are at the end of National Poetry Month and I am sharing more of the haiku I have written each day and posted a first draft on Facebook. It has been a challenge, though a fun one. I’ve wracked my brain some mornings to find an interesting connection in each of these photos that might inspire a short poem.
The PROGRESSIVE POEM has taken interesting and evocative twists and turns. On 4/26 check out the newest lines by Karin Fisher-Golton Here .
SPECTRUM 1, 1953, ELLSWORTH KELLY
Juxtaposed color--
Is the first and last yellow
the same or different?
COIT TOWER IN SAN FRANCISCO
Tourist attraction.
Inside, murals depict hard times--
The Great Depression
IT'S BEEN DONE BEFORE
Charlie Chaplin shows:
working from home and childcare
is easily done.
PRINT OF SNOWFLAKE BENTLEY'S LIFE'S WORK
He photographed snow,
each flake a tiny sculpture--
Quick! Before it melts!
Magritte's Masterpiece
L.A. Museum,
an icon of modern art--
No smoking allowed!
SUNDIAL
A goose in April
shows us with some certainty
that noon approaches
Happy National Poetry Month! Thank you, Ruth, for hosting.
It’s great that you’ve continued to capture such varied objects, Janice, & I’m sure it’s a challenge, too! I love the Chaplin, so long ago, so current! Happy Poetry Month!
You’ve written ekphrastic haiku! I don’t think I ever thought to put the two forms–both of which I am quite fond of–together. Your poems show they are a perfect match.
Janice: Nice challenge you have chosen! I loved the Charlie Chaplin, and also the sundial. I had to look carefully to get that one, and.. you nailed it! Thanks for sharing.
What a super fun variety of haiku. I especially love that goose one. 🙂
Goosey sundial for the win!
I agree with those who love the goose. I had to look at it again to see what I overlooked the first time.
Janice, what joy your photos and haiku bring to me today. I loved reading them and smiled throughout. I think you can create a beauty with any photo! I love Snowflake Bentley, and the Caldecott medal winning book about him. “each flake a tiny sculpture–” The geese as a sundial is so clever too.
Images of COIT Tower bring me home, Janice. I grew up not far from that area. I love the noon goose!
Love the fun and variety here, Janice!
Oh, those are fun, Janice! Thank you for sharing your haiku with us. I wrote one a day last year, which was great practice.
These are wonderful Janice, love the present time connection in the Charlie Chaplin haiku and your keen observation question in Ellsworth Kelly, thanks for all!