Spring blossoms beckon
Pollinator photobomb
Antennae signaled
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#cherry #blossom
Twilight ambitions
The fruits of summer’s labor
Sweetening pleasures
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#apple #blossoms
Summer Advances
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Phoetic February: Missing You
February 14th was changed forever for Indigenous communities 28 years ago. While we still share in acknowledging and celebrating love, we also use the day to recognize and memorialize our mothers, daughters, sisters, cousins, aunties and grandmothers lost to us inexplicably and/or violently.
We memorialize them in a march through town and city streets to remind all of those still missing and that despite calls for justice and formal inquiries, we have yet to receive any for those murdered. It’s a national disgrace that, as Indigenous women, we remain the most vulnerable demographic in all colonized countries.
A million smiles
Crossed our hearts before goodbyes
Home longingly waits
My cousin, Roberta Marie Ferguson, age 19 yrs, missing since August 24, 1988
RL
Phoetic February: Wooden Larceny
Remember that time
You trimmed the thickened branches
A hostage was claimed
Little game of tit for tat
Forgotten loss; willow’s gain
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#haiku #tanka
Phoetic February: Sunday Moody Sundays
It’s been about a month’s worth of thoughtful weekly beginnings. Something in the air… change, newness, the call of Spring? I don’t know. I do know each one gave me something personal; something not quite typical…
Heralding Hues
Waning assurance?
Maybe merely fine-tuning
Imminent promise
#haiku #rainbows
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Moonstruck
Reverent howling
Eerie, the Blood Wolf Moon Eve
Neighbourhood braced
#haiku #lunareclipse
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Sunday Softly
Sunday night refuge
Musical libations soothe
Under homemade stars
#haiku #pubdreams
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Singing Our Lives With His Words
Song flows like whiskey
Tenderly trickling around
Fading memories
#haiku #musicalpoets
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Let’s Call it, “Phoetry”
Blossoming Love
Showering her gifts
To all who pay her homage
Sweet, pink abundance
#cherryblossom #windshield
Warrior
She was still and sang
Calmly embracing her peace
As the hawks circled
#mourningdove
Hiding in Plain Sight
Luminous greetings
Luna peeking through sunlight
Furtively winking
Deal Me In 
Unexpected chance
Risk takers found floating bets
Gambled on water
#riverboat #tres’ #Nashville
Haiku Toiletries
Bathroom selfie dare
First (and last) effort complete
Note: need longer arms
#flash #fun
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She Sings Me Peace
So this sweet little miss visited me the other day…
Subtle little friends
Warming the gloomiest days
Love’s slyest bounties
Haiku
She sang me his blues
One flying monkey, fallen
Washed out on new shores
Vindication realized
The music of peace fills me
Haiku/Tanka
RL
North Pole, South Pole, Same Dream
Christmas wish lists filed
Reverse climate changes now
Santa needs a home
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Haiku
Photo: Stanley Park, Christmas Lights Display 2017
Minute Misery; Haiku
Forlorn longing sighs
Spring’s promises to Summer
Pivot toward dark
Weak, last ditch appeals to Sun
Spring promised; prolong our youth
RL
Haiku/Tanka
Inspiration & Photo credit: Autumn Alps by Le Drake Noir
Turning Corners …and Tossing Blanket Excuses
Street Art, say hello to my little Haiku…
Chortles for healing
Yes, another truth cliché’
Eyes wide open; cured
Pain’s scales fully cleared
Nothing’s like smiling with you
Cleansing fiends away
Proffered disclaimer
“Stimuli response creature”
His faults “in stasis”
Ah, ha ha, behold
How sweet to laughably view…
Saps teach ogres words
Sadly, pulled below
Into sulphurous kisses
Temporary bath
Fool’s paradises
Repelled for solid grounding
Upscaled to real life
Elevated me
New knowledge; true tenderness
Freedom completed
An exercise in summer re-discovery. A former summer’s draft of haikus met up with a friend’s last summer street art photography. Great fun matching up those thoughts to these illustrations of chance.
Outside of that, I’m guessing at this point in the year, many of us are in a need of some seasonal change. I’m definitely hungry for more sunny experiences in sunny destinations. I’ll bet you are too. Let’s get at ‘er, mon anges et amies!
RL
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