Day 8: H is for Habit

Kite

Kite catches the wind,
unavoidable habit
to go up, aloft.

Day 7: G is for Ground

Sub-Atomic Dance

Our molecules
know the drill: come-bind, unbound.
Flame, water, air, ground.

Day 6: F is for Felt

To My First Friend

Do you remember
how it felt to hold my hand?
Yes. Of course you do.

Day 5: E is for Exponent

Exponent

Rise to the power
of the value by your side.
You will get bigger.

Day 4: D is for Draw

Connect the Dots

Draw a line from moon
to sea and back to the place
where our two hearts meet.

Lisa Vihos

Day 3: C is for Case

Question

Let your journey start
today, in this wild, spring rain.
What is in your case?

Dictionary Hike

I got turned onto the idea of doing a "distionary hike" by a new friend, Amy Ludwig Vanderwater. Check out her fabulous blog, The Poem Farm. Each day during National Poetry Month, Amy is letting her finger fall on a word in the dictionary, and she is then creating a poem that must include that word. She has begun at A and will work her way to Z as each day goes by. Hence the "dictionary hike" concept. I caught the bug and have determined that whatever word she picks each day, I will use the same word in a haiku. After 26 days, between us we will have 52 poems. (Mine will generally be way shorter!)

We have thus far completed A and B. My first two haiku appear together here. To see Amy's poems, go here. I am very much looking forward to C tomorrow. Visit each day and see what we have created. Hey, that starts with C. Cool. Oh, so does that. Ciao...oy, this is contagious! Signing off now before I am covered in C-words...

April 1
Day 1: A is for Ancient

The ancient soul aches
for one more undoing or
doing of the heart.


April 2
Day 2: B is for Bluegrass

Mystery

Bluegrass, green-sky. Why?
Why not? I wonder as my
day turns up-under.