flowers, haiga, haiku, humor, photography, seasons

Last Song of Summer

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Flowers sing to bees,
who gather the last pollen.
A circle closes.


Some blogs I follow have excellent photos of bees and butterflies visiting zinnias and other flowers. The pollinators where I live usually move too fast for me.  (They seem to start each foraging trip with triple espressos.)  I just admire the local zinnias and their visitors as I walk slowly past them, without taking photos.  One day late in the 2026 zinnia season, my muse interrupted my walk when she whispered, “Pull your phone out.”  I complied while replying, “No post without a poem.”  She smirked and winked.

haiku, humor, politics

Calliope and Geology

The juxtaposition in my title is weird, but Calliope is unfazed.  After all, she is the ancient Greek muse of eloquence, epic poetry, and circus music.

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As American politics in 2016 illustrates, Calliope’s portfolio is not as weird as I would wish.  Neither is my title.

Stale Bread Can Wait
|My muse is stingy (when implored)
|or really bitchy (when ignored).
|If I want to sing of croutons
|(but her fancy turns to plutons),
|I have just one way to go:
|with the mighty magma flow.

As I discovered long ago when I tried to read an English translation of Goethe’s Faust, poetry in couplets tends to sound silly even when it is dead serious.  Now that I have had my little respite from blank verse in haiku form, maybe I should go back to solemn austerity.  Maybe.

What the World Needs
|More silliness from
|those who know they are silly;
|less from the others.

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