Some haiku, yes, but first a celebration in free verse because we have...
Cholla in Bloom
As I look up, I see you
With gray head and wrinkled arms,
Wearing a crown of scarlet and coral
To celebrate the high days of summer.
And as I look down the hill,
I see you again:
Slight and silver,
With a boisterous flock of flowers
Like vermilion doves
Sheltering from the sun.
And now for some haiku. Its brief form seems to suit these warming weeks very well.
Birds are chattering,
yet the cloudless sky creates
enormous silence
This haiku was written before the poem that begins this post. I simply wasn’t finished with the imagery. I decided to feature both, despite the redundancy of vision and words.
Watch the gray cholla
wearing a vermilion crown
for high summer days
Doves land on the wire,
fly off with clamoring wings:
below them, the sun
Magic of midnight:
looking up to see whether
stars fall through trees
Birds chattering into enormous silence, doves flying higher than the sun ... and that cholla!
Glorious springtime celebrations.
I always like looking up the plants you write about. So much beauty where you are from!