
Crow in Bowen Island, BC
a cat eats weed flowers
my dog sits on the bird bath
mom spreads a picnic basket
for baby’s feeding bottles
three crows swoop in
on my bag of popcorn,
a weed flower sticks
to my dress
baby drools
on her blue bib the sky turns
golden, i gather the crumbs
under the blooming junipers
i pull up a heather, a
squirrel flies over my head
on a twig chippers chatter—
my heather turns blue
baby picks a dandelion
the sun slides down, over skies
a swarm of snowbirds
fly home
Posted with other fun poems by and for children for Friday Poetically with Brian at One Stop Poetry. Check us out!
June 10, 2011
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dawn
settles on her barefeet
a starling craving to
flex wings
the ground quivers
from her tender steps unease
spreads
among wet stones
she wiggles
off her restless sighs
to undo her veil of wind
her hair loosens
strands of singing
rise over the heartbeat
of sparrows
she becomes a pair of wings
shirred skirt
the feathers she preens
to a sheen that stuns
a hesitant sun
the day flexes
on her limbs a thrumming
wakens the tender
lilies she stalked in her dreams
she steps into
her gaping red shoes
the brooding crows
scatter
a ruckus spreads
among the dandelions
the seagulls catch in fevered
pitch
she walks
parting the congregation
in blindness deaf
to the grumbling
over the rise
among the pines she raises
her arms an arc
to the sky
a swallow
skimming the meadow
where heads limp in the breeze
but balloons from her wedding
the gulls shriek
it pierces her flight
she careens
down the hill snags
a thread of her dream
first a thump
of the wearied balloon
that pumped her wings
next her toes
like a bird poised to fly
in a fall
(c) by Alegria Imperial 2011

Photo prompt by Lauren Randolph
For One Shoot Sunday at One Shot Poetry, winner of the 2011 Shorty Award for the Arts. Come check us out and share your art and poetry–it’s what we do her, share and nurture each other.
April 10, 2011
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free verse, poetry, Uncategorized | alegria imperial, balloons, barefeet, bride, crows, Daily life, Daily wage, dandelions, dawn, grumbling, heartbeat, jornales, one shoot Sunday, one shot poetry, seagulls, sparrows, spreads, starlings, swallow, wiggles, wings |
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1. Prompt #24 flower
squabbling crows
scream into my thoughts–
at dawn how you left
hollow imprints of sleep
scented dreams of jasmine blooms
2. prompt #25–zoo
sunny day at Zoo
lioness searches for my eyes
behind my black shades–
the way we hold our hearts
as we speak of fears and wants
3. prompt #26–drum
the drum beat of rain
on window pane imprints tears
a flood breaking hearts
in loneliness gray rain sneaks
into wells to fill the dryness
Tanka drafts I should call these because I’m certain that when I read them tomorrow, they will sound bad. These came as spontaneously as the haiku I’ve been posting on the NaHaiWriMo wall. There’s an energy that takes over at the site like a hand that holds my wrist as I pause or pose to let the first word dance on the screen. It’s the presence of so many other haiku writers– whose names I recognize from the Shiki kukai and haiku journals even some haijin–that I think itself serves as the prompt and the word, a prop. The experience, though I hopped in only on Day 19, has been exhilarating.
February 26, 2011
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haiku, poetry, tanka | alegria imperial, blooms, crows, Daily wage, dryness, eyes, fears, flower, gray, haiku, hearts, hollow, imprints, jasmine, jornales, lioness, loneliness, NaHaiWriMo, National Haiku Writing Month, prompt, rain, shades, sleep, tanka, tears, Thoughts, wants, zoo |
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1.
day after Christmas–
crows waddling to bus stop
no one awaits
2.
on frosted peaks
somehow
a glow in the winter sky
December 30, 2010
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haiku, poetry, Uncategorized | alegria imperial, Christmas, crows, Daily life, Daily wage, frosted, glow, haiku, jornales, peaks, winter sky |
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