MAGPIE TALES: LES FENETRES

Cinquains are fun: the syllables run in this order per 5 lines--2, 4, 6, 8, 2. I used to day-dream in classes about when I'd be able to wear my French looking open-toe sling backs after a long winter. I wish I owned a pair of shoes like the above from Magpie Tales.

LES FENETRES

Windows

I look out of

while I sit in English

Class wondering how long before

I can

wear sling

backs, how flirty

these windows look, filling

with green buds and snazzy birds blitz-

ing by!

MAGPIE TALES: DEMETER'S DAFFODIL

Now is the season when the goddess Demeter welcomes her daughter Kore (or Persephone) back from the Underworld, her joy at the reunion kindling Spring for the world. Here she finds in the first daffodil her beloved daughter's presence.

DEMETER'S DAFFODIL

(for Willow at Magpie Tales)

To dip

into your corolla

carefully one wintry

finger and touch

to my throat

what I hear begin tuning

up downwind,

the little frogs

chorusing cullowhee

cullowhee, Cherokee

shivaree down by

the rain-swollen Tuckasee-

gee, what sweeter

scent than the attar

of you ever

after come back

to me, Golden

Girl!

My laughing daughter!

The SOUND OF GREEN

(Green as seen through a scrim of still-leafless Sweet Shrub)

In response to my appeal for poems that sound like "green," (on my Laureate's Lasso blogI received only one! Where are you, spring-crazed poets? You are supposed to be out smelling the first green, inhaling the sunshine, listening to the tree frogs and letting your imagination fill up to the brim! Send me some poems!

Thank you, Diane. This is a lovely poem, and as I told you in my comments, I particularly like "The days stretch, the nights shrink." I wish I knew more about you. Your students are fortunate to have you as their teacher.

Diane, Teacher said...

As I stood on my porch at sunset today, I could hear the "sound of green".

Tree frogs sing
Crickets cheep
Pink fingers of sunshine stream along the horizon
The days stretch, the nights shrink
Nature’s music reveals
Spring is here!