Monday, 3 February 2025

Ten Haiku Poems by Lara Dolphin

 






10 Haiku


frost shimmers then melts

into gleaming pocket pools

watering the earth



we giggle and talk

picnicking under the trees

no longer strangers



golden-glow wattle

bursting forth to set alight

the sunken garden



oh, Picasso moth—

night hides Mondrian delight

on a canvas white



careful what you wish–

for a dragonfly may stitch

your hopes to the sky



Mexican larva

growing curled inside a seed

watch how you can jump



In every season

what keeps you from the darkness

keeps you from yourself



Toxic Lenten rose 

brutiful cup of poison

purple means repent



cremated remains

sprinkled over rose bushes

have found their way home



birds in scarlet oaks  

herald longer days singing

things won’t fall apart








Lara Dolphin - A native of Pennsylvania, Lara Dolphin is an attorney, nurse, wife and mom of four amazing kids. Her chapbooks include In Search Of The Wondrous Whole (Alien Buddha Press), Chronicle Of Lost Moments (Dancing Girl Press), and At Last a Valley (Blue Jade Press).  

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