Before we begin, consider: Why Do You Love the Poem?

family reunion

the broken chord
of a wind chime

the lonely
call of a loon–
nothing answers#haikuchallenge

— 𝙻𝚊𝚏𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 🐇 (@juliusorlovsky) July 30, 2022

Or how strangers still say “bless you”

when someone sneezes, a leftover

from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying.

I watch the morning drifting past the window wearing soft-colored pajamas with cloudy feet and uncombed leaves rubbing sleep from the skies while squirrels stretch and songbirds clear their throats suddenly a woodpecker taps the baton and we wait…#sweetweird

— 𝙻𝚊𝚏𝚌𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚘 🐇 (@juliusorlovsky) August 1, 2022

his old guitar

fending off
the blues

the fly gets stuck on abstract #haiku

— ant ant ant ant ant (@ariariariariari) July 16, 2022

harvest moon

migrant kids eat the bread

tossed to the crows

First, fires, then floods and rain. And after the rain, flies and mosquitoes! the bobcat said.
And fireflies, said the fox-girl.#vss365 #flies

— Voima Oy (@voimaoy) July 20, 2022

Fifty cents more an hour would get me

a house in the country

…

10,000 more a year would get me

in debt for the house in the country

Finally, Variations on a Passage in Edward Abbey is a new #goals poem for me. Blending curiosity, knowledge, teaching, and poetry into one form. How many words would this take a textbook author to communicate?