Three Spring Haiku

      Three Spring Haiku
Warm Spring shower
naked in the wilderness
childhood wonder
            *
      Tails a-twitch--
      Spring squirrels scamper"
       Quick! Bell the cat!
                   *
                   Hot dry wind.
                   Mulberries  shimmy
                   Goslings feast

Knot by Knot 

block by block
color by color
knot by knot
vintage wool
is looped and knotted.

Now
fingering, savoring
the last little bit--
wandering, exploring
the wreckage of 52nd
looking for daddy's little dolly

that was the wonder--
the burden of you.

Now.

finished, yet unfinished
heart formed, yet unformed
too early, too late. . .

i unravel the last double
crochet

tie off the umbilical
no need to stay.
.
.inspired by +Bobby Wilson, Parakeet2

Sister Mary's Easter Recitation
and subsequent Resurrection

I
Under the twilight willow
my sister weeps--
abandoned there
without a mother's care

alone.

crumpled face
and ruffled hair
dappled sun lit
treescape of fears
and tears
II
now folded: a fetus–regressed
busy thumb and tongue
a wee baby's heart murmuring
another child unblessed.

Between a peek and a boo
she searches
no openings in ring-around-the-rosie
she all falls down,
and down.
and down.
no access in hopscotch or playing house;
no ropes to jump, and
and, so she searches,--quiet as a mouse
stumbles upon the rainbow's end -- alas,
no Finnegan-- no Finnegan to begin it all over again.

III
Deep echoes--a liturgy stirs
arms raised
tender healing voices
singing hosannas and praise.
ancient recitations now anew

options and challenges
stains on glass, service
choices clarify and by

open
-ing

Sister Mary mends:
Unfolding,
born again in pain
first a whispering, tentative soul,
then necessary flesh
and bone!

Smiling, Gleaming, Rejoicing
while
steadfast
sweet Jesus welcomes her home.

Inspired by +Mary Nicholson, Parakeet3

If Michelle Obama Taught Biology, it Would Look Like This

News Story: A new interactive one hour biology charges students up for learning. Based around organic gardening.
                                            ~
                                  Haiku
                       School bells ring--
                              gardeners scamper
                                       Hope renewed.
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Finding Your Buffalo: The Path to Happiness

A Naked Haiku

serene meditation
feeds my happy buffalo
illumination.
.
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Read the Article at HuffingtonPost