Poems to remember - Day 8, medley

I know I had promised some longer poems, (for those of you who like longer poems). I had planned to feature poems on some more themes.I also needed to do a post totally devoted to haiga, if I were to do justice to all the beautiful haiga i have read this year. But being time-strapped as I am, these posts would have to wait probably till some time in next year. Today I bring you a few poems which definitely are among my best of 2011, but which I had missed somehow... and even then I'll be missing many more!

in ten summers
the convict's first visit
dragonfly

Johny Baranski





1 from a bridge
2 with a bullet
that kind of a family

Eve Luckring




Father's day
his wheel tracks
in the carpet

Michelle Schaefer






tree stumps
father never needed
poetry

Glenn Coats





towing
a rainbow
baby duck


Carlos Colon




today slips
into the room hungry
on tiny paws

angie werren

(this one as a haiga with a beautiful image on Tinywords, issue 11.2, 19th October, 2011)




rushing thoughts...
the speckled breast
of this thrush

Kirsten Kliff





the documents
all signed
winter rain

Roland Packer






crashing waves -
almost believing
it's forever

Svetlana Marisova







outside :
a war, inside:
a death,
and you want me
to choose...

Kirsten Kliff

Poems to remember - Day 7, memories

I've this memory -
riding my father's shoulders
into the ocean,
the poetry of things
before I could speak


Michael McClintock

I am not sure how to describe the theme of today's group of poems. Should it be 'memories', 'parents' or 'loss'? The above poem by Michael McClintock kind of captures the mood.

where my father fished...
I drop a line
into the sky


Gregory Hopkins






eggshells fragments
what I know of the mother
I've never known

Melissa Spur





far-off owl...
the phantom scent
of father's pipe

John Hawk




charcoal on my fingers
mother explains the plan
for her ashes

Aubrie Cox




soapsuds -
mother tells me how
she'd like to die


Margaret Dornaus





twilight
father asks
if I hear
the chimes

Glenn Coats





bathing in its own light
the moon
...those who are gone

Steven Carter

Poems to remember from 2011 - day 6, flowers and blossoms

"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks." ~Tennessee Williams

So shall we go picking the blossoms and flowers today? (Though I must admit to a personal preference for the wildflowers!)

abandoned building site wildflowers in progress

Melissa Allen




every spring
a little more alone
wild violets

Melissa Allen




old sage's desk...
just enough space
for violets

L.Costa




the old hurts
resurfacing -
bluebell sky


Sandra Simpson





night blooming jasmine
some prefer whiskey
to chamomile tea

Marian Olson





pear blossoms...
which one of these houses
was yours?

Laura Garrison




plum tree
only
when it blooms

Alegria Imperial





mellowing...
the slam dunk of blossoms
through the rusted hoop

Claire Everett





another biopsy -
plucking at the flowers
of my hospital gown

Cara Holman




snowdrops
or butterflies
every place
every season
is perfect

Christina Nguyen

I know I am missing many other lovely haiku here, especially because I'm yet to go through the latest issues of NFTG and AHG fully. This only skims the surface of my memory.

North star obscured...
wild honeysuckle somewhere
in the dark

Peggy Willis Lyles