Senryu 12-17-2018

pink shiny blossoms
Mama’s Christmas Cactus blooms 
through these many years

© Freeda Baker Nichols

SURPRISE

a spider–

a magic surprise

clothed in red

© 2016 Freeda Baker Nichols

A Moo from the Hill

a cow is a cow
unless she is a whiteface–
a moo from the hill

© 2015 Freeda Baker Nichols

Birds of Different Feathers

downy woodpecker
and a little house wren
breakfast together
© Freeda Baker Nichols

King of the Pasture

king of the pasture
the big, red bull watches for
would-be trespassers

© 2015  Freeda Baker Nichols

 

 

Reblogging “Looking for Leftovers.” :)

Reblogging this to “show” the blue jay at the feeder.

mystery bird
waits on limb of a maple
Blue Jay at feeder
© Freeda Baker Nichols

Looking for Leftovers

mystery bird
waits on limbs of a maple
Blue Jay at feeder
© Freeda Baker Nichols

Rainy Weather

rain in the Ozarks
a cardinal and his mate
with no umbrella

© 2015 Freeda Baker Nichols

How Still the Homeplace

curls of blue smoke
once made its way through these bricks–
image in my mind

© Freeda Baker Nichols

 

 

Broken Rules in Poetry

apple of her eye
the fruit rolled far from the tree
behind iron bars
© Freeda Baker Nichols