Garden Work Grany's energy and mood burst with the spring arrival, she'd put on a hat with the rainbow buttons sewed on it, grab the hoe and begins to work on her garden. When the green sprouts begin to emerge, she's getting ready for the days to spray pesticide; the image of little caterpillars eating her little darlings; her lips curl. She'd buy the best one and spray it over her babies. But wait; she pauses, thinking about the ground water pollution: pesticide and household cleaning agents can pollute our ground water sources. so, they must be used and disposed properly. That ain't my problem. She smiles. As the article: use the pesticide as instructed; don't pour the cleaning stuffs with water on the lawn or ground, and so on. Looking at her green garden, she ponders, what can be done more? Many things. For now, she'd tend the new greens; help them grow more. Garden Work is one of my three poems published in the Weekly Avocet--#497.
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Winter Haiku/senryu
little bird and the budding leaves listen to each other urgent message from Nature the whistling windows in the wee hour lone buck in the moonlight war invasion never a humanitarian purpose crying children in hunger and cold ©Byung A. Fallgren
faulty nature
Faulty nature
Sometimes even a good souls
break the rules,
and hope to find a spring
from an unlikely source.
photo by Kaya Kotzen–kkwisdomwoman@gmail.com
Mind
Old minds are like old horses, you must exercise them
if you wish to keep them in working order.
–John Quincy Adams
prairie evening charm
like an obedient dog
waiting for his master
an old mailbox
waits for
its owner
Who hasn’t been inspired, one time or another, by countryside evening?
Even dingy, roadside prairie offers some poetic charm. Driving by the
countryside one evening, I was attracted by this weathered mailbox
whispered to me, “How’s it going, lady?” And I said, “Not too bad,
dude. Tomorrow will be better.” The last word lifted my somber mood,
and I found myself humming the rest way home.
–Byung A. Fallgren
a good loser
You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a
good loser? Practice.
–Ernest Hemingway
a quote/Holmes
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the part of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
Act
It is not enough to become compassionate–you
must act.
—the Dalai Lama
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Nature/quote
Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. —Gretel Ehrlich
posted by Byung A. Fallgren
Courage
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear,
not absence of fear. –Mark Twain
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Byung A. Fallgren 