June 1

Haunting frosty air

Skirling of distant bagpipes

Dance the Highland Fling

May 31

French roast in mug

Biscotti in cookie jar

I don't miss Starbucks

May 30

Traffic needs straight roads

Straight lines are not natural

We domesticate

May 29

His face has known wind

Old cowboy, tall boots and spurs

Sits in Dairy Queen

May 28

On a bombed out road

I'm constantly shifting gears

Riding out the storms

May 27

Young ewes with twin lambs

Spotted sow with nine piglets

Springtime on the farm

May 26

When the mouth opens

Our speech reveals who we are

To those who can hear

May 25

A few crowd around

Clarinet singing the blues

Tuba underneath

May 24

Roses amid thorns

Muscadines hanging from tree

In sweet summertime

May 23

Clouds drifting above

Light moves 'cross bamboo shadows

Water pot is full

May 22

Blond two-year old girl

In yellow cowboy boots

She was a dancer

May 21

Strawberry shortcake

Is dessert something deserved

At the end of meals?

May 19

Gardens must be worked

Weeds are plants in the wrong place

Can people be weeds?

May 18

He is tall and slim

Cowboy boots with green tops

Shame he's not handsome

May 17

Dusky dark at noon

Thunder rolling from the west

Maybe seeds will sprout

May 16

Under a green sky

A blue horse came walking by

Storm is blowing up

May 15

Circumstance gives shape

Genetics sets boundaries

Still we have choice

May 14

Morals are like art

Both must draw the line somewhere

Where have they both gone?

May 13

At worship they hear

Mockingbird on church steeple

Singing hymns of praise

May 12

Traffic rushes by

Mockingbird nest in the vines

Ignore each other

May 11

Ugly on the ground

Magnificent in the sky

Buzzards clean road kill

May 10

Small blue damselfly

Alights on buffalo grass

Beautiful silence

May 9

Bluegrass festival

Rooster crowing out of tune

And banjo off-key

May 8

Old shoes are the best

I like old age most of all

Old shirts and old hats

May 7

Robin in the birdbath

Shower sparkling in the sun

Cows knee deep in pond

May 6

Old bus sits on blocks

Interior filled with junk

Once it carried life

May 5

Green bark sticker tree

Palo Verde blooms golden

Never gets thirsty

May 4

Thorny barrier

Wild roses and blackberries

We'll walk around them

May 3

Eating clementine

Warm day; Walmart parking lot

Reading P. D. James

May 2

He is a quiddler

Never gets anything done

Some say he's lazy

May 1

On wild mountainside

Fiddling in a minor key

Old man with white hair