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NPR asked listeners to send in haiku poems they wrote about summer. Here's what I sent in and a link to the poems NPR published. Such fun!


My Mosquito
 
His translucent gut
swells with my blood. My insides
now outside with wings.


https://www.npr.org/2019/07/01/736289920/beach-adventures-and-falling-in-love-summer-in-a-haiku

This poem began with three words supplied by 3Elements Literary Review as a challenge to poets. The words: Metronome, Slip. Gaslight. Each stanza also is in haiku form.

After You Left
 
She mothers your son,
the metronome of his needs --
Breast, swaddle. Swaddle
 
breast. Until she can’t.  
She tucks towels beneath his
door. The oven valve
 
in her palm hisses.
She kneels, bows, exhales, her white
slip bared. Once gaslight
 
fuel for street lamps,
now tinder for another
fury raw, unbound. 

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Selected works on-line

Motherhood poems
http://www.literarymama.com/poetry/archives/2016/09/an-army-of-one.html

Child-rearing poems:
http://www.versewisconsin.org/Issue112/poems/keller.html

Power poems:
http://www.booksbywomen.org/whenwomenwaken/author/lhttp://www.literarymama.com/poetry/archives/2016/09/an-army-of-one.htmlorakeller/

Obsession poems:
http://lanternjournal.org/2013/03/please-stand-back/

A snake poem and more:
http://original-writer.com/gettingpoetrypublished56lora.html

The Beauty of Life:
http://www.halfwaydownthestairs.net/index.php?action=view&id=411

A fishing poem:
http://www.thenewpoet.com/2013/05/the-new-poet-5.html

Story poems:
http://www.blastfurnacepress.com/2012/11/blast-furnace-volume-2-issue-3.html

Poems about callings:
http://www.med-lit.vcu.edu/MLM2.2.pdf