Summer's Song (Day 225)

Dry, sharp grasses bend.

Summer whispers, familiar heaven waits.

Stolid ponds gaze skyward.

Tiny blue-bellies do pushups on warm rocks.

Banal toads sigh among singing frogs.

(c) by Hannah Six

The Dog & I (Day 224)

You see, the dog 

        & I took 

                a walk 

        this evening 

Our neighborhood 

        came out 

                to greet 

       her—all of her 

favorite friends 

& she just 

        smiled & smiled

                with that 

        particularly canine 

breed of joy

At that moment

        a thought fluttered 

                 down & alit 

        on my shoulder: 

This 

is feeling 

like Everything is 

going to 

be 

all right 

(c) 2017, by Hannah Six

Photo: Lucky, by H. Six

Two Haiku, Two Senryu (Day 124)

Photo: Marabuchi

Birds versus squirrels 

Locked in eternal battle 

Sharing the same tree

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Rabbit stretches tall

Craning his neck to nibble

Sweet, young poppy leaves

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Friday: hot humid

Saturday: sweater weather

Mid-Atlantic May

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Chic woman with scarf

Insouciantly knotted

matches her flowers

(c) 2017, by Hannah Six