Weed Therapy

sunday afternoon
weeding the front bed by hand
moving back to calm

first day of summer time -
playground slide
...a silver waterfall

Walking in the French Quarter - 3/27/2008

I took a couple of master classes this past Thursday as part of the Tennessee Williams Festival.

I had to walk several blocks to my car to go back to work, but it was a beautiful spring day!

Royal and St. Louis St.
classical notes spring
from upright piano

Royal and Toulouse
blues music
happy band

lunch in alley
baliadas
warm beans and tortillas

windy again -
crow raises
a ragged wing

how do they know?

sprouting
in the cool dark place
- the spuds

REVELRY

Spring revelry
on the Ganga's bank
my lone home


--R.K.SINGH

March snow -
white flowers
in the forsythia

***

neige de mars -
des fleurs blanches
dans le forsythia

WHAT GOES AROUND (a haibun)

The retirement community where I live is uniquely affordable for those of us less privileged. Still nothing can be or is wasted. A thrift shop on the grounds does a brisk business in items no longer needed by community residents. Its profits support the classes and cultural events offered by the Residents Association. Two residents trade a small refrigerator and a full-size one, the small one ultimately a gift to me. I purchase a microwave from another resident. Tonight, I carry a fan back to my room bought from yet another resident, thinking not only is necessity the mother of invention, but of conservation and caring.

the fan
goes round and round
my heart warms

Spring announcer

Black and white squares
flapping over ploughed field
Lapwing – another Spring announcer.


Sort / hvide firkanter
flaksende over pløjemarken
Viben – endnu en forårsbebuder

New Life

the ground is warming-
beautiful weeds in the yard
my fingers itching

Thru the Window

first watch-

stars hang in the forsythia

Easter weekend - pile-up on the autobahn!

Yellow helicopters
arriving at the crash scene
- not angry wasps

Day-glo doctors
working in the snow
with needles and stretchers

TV crew
with long cables -
cameras pointing everywhere

busy sparrow:
a long thread of grass
to weave around her

At the Bridal Department of the Consignment Store

future bride runs outside
not scared of prices
but of morning sickness

snow shower
on Knokke's dike -
where is the sea ?

***

averse de neige
sur la digue de Knokke -
où est passée la mer ?

blue skies
wisps of clouds
true artist - God

Moonligt Night

trying to catch sleep
seeing the moon travel
over the daffodils

Winter Bamboo

Bush of Bamboo
stands elegant
even with snow

spring by the calendar

more snow coming,
post equinox sun –
spray of orange peel

spring sunset
leaves me for the first time
in warm air
and loud crickets-
thinking of our first kiss

spring surfing-
looking for cool new plants
and flower boxes

MARIGOLDS

Expand smile
marigolds yellow petals -
the spring sun

--R.K.SINGH

nuance

behind the nodding
trembling daffodils
the yellow bush
the wild forsythia

spring cleaning

brings back memories

of spring cleaning

early commute-
enjoying the moon
while driving to work