Quarters rub shoulders. Plastic ice cream bucket swings in homeless man’s hand. –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
Poem-a-Day: #28
By Laura
Tagged With: haiku, Laura's poems, National Poetry Month 2012 (haiku a day), poems
Small Reads for Brighters Days
By Laura
Quarters rub shoulders. Plastic ice cream bucket swings in homeless man’s hand. –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
By Laura
Gutter ball dinner Potato chips weigh heavy– Greasy bowling ball –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved Not a thing of beauty, is it? Dinner last night did not turn out well, and I ended up eating some noodles and a bunch of potato chips. Ugh. Now my stomach is not feeling very happy. On a […]
By Laura
each darkling drop– even distant curling current– fuels ocean’s tides? –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved There is so much poetry deliciousness going on right now, and I’m missing most of it. That makes me partly sad, but it also gives me such a feeling of abundance, that there’s all this great poetry available–so much […]
By Laura
black ink jumps off page somersaults, bounces, leaps high– royalty statement! –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved I just got my April royalty statement, and attached was the first royalty check I’ve ever gotten. It’s not a big check, mind you. A week of working at Target would pay more. But it means some people […]
By Laura
papery waves roll, dip and swell on forest floor– curling storms of birch –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved I love birch trees, and the North Shore, where we spent the weekend, is full of them. Birch bark on the ground inspired this haiku. Also, I have a guest post today at Emily Kristin Anderson’s […]
By Laura
fence-top weathervanes flash metallic sunbeams– line dance to breeze-beat –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved Randy and I went up to the North Shore (of Lake Superior) this weekend, and it was wonderful! A lot of people sell arts, crafts, homemade sausages/jerkies, etc. One house’s post-and-rail fence was topped with a whole row of weathervanes […]
By Laura
Birch bark learns to curl, yearns to sparkle like fireworks– crackles in campfire –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved
By Laura
sun climbs all morning perches at sky-top: burns, sweats– declines rest of day –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved Happy Poetry Friday! Two pieces of news: 1) I’m on Your Daily Poem today! Do you know YourDailyPoem.com? I love it, and I was so thrilled when they took my poem “Unwrapped.”? 2) Mentors for Rent […]
By Laura
Wake up your poetry brains with 15 Words or Less (guidelines here)! Photo by Paolo Costa Baldi. License: GFDL/CC-BY-SA 3.0 I love this panoramic view of the Colosseum. It makes me think of: 1.?Gladiators, of course 2. Lions 3. The lens of a microscope Here’s my poem first draft, in haiku to adhere to my […]
By Laura
on riser’s top row first-grader flashes?white smile sun lights up the gym –Laura Purdie Salas, all rights reserved —————————————————- That one is for my beautiful niece, Lily, whose first-grade music show last night was fantastic! Poem in Your Pocket Day is next Thursday, April 26. What poem will you be carrying around? You have a […]