Haiku salute to our veterans...

The topic for the Haiku Challenge at Sparrow's is:

*********** HONORING OUR MILITARY ***********

Remember, the prize is a deluxe care package from
AnySoldier and goes to one of our own serving in harm's way.

The deadline for all submissions is 10 pm Wednesday.

photo snatched from All Atwitter.

too soon for the moon...

Wandered the beach very late afternoon,
wanting to see the moon rise.
While waiting for that, studied the rest
and composed and poeticized.














Wind frothed the breakers, square-danced
with the gulls. Candy clouds punctuated
the sky. Not a glimpse of a glimmer of
lunar peculiar jiggled the night swath
descending. A shrug and a slump then
turned course westward, resigned to a
glitterless eve.













Moon face smiled, "You could have seen
the moon but you gave up too soon. I'll be
back in December but will you remember?"

Code blue (wake me when it's over)...

for a long time
I stopped.
flat disappeared.
and when you
are not
there is nowhere
to go.
so you stay
where you're not
and never wake up.
'til a day comes
that jars you
and the wounds
start to bleed.
then you get up
and walk
through the door
into daylight
and you see that
the road to salvation
is waiting
right where it's ever been the whole time
that you thought
you were not.


blue skies
smilin' at me
nothin' but
blue skies
do I see.


if I were
any happier
I'd have to
wear a bib.

still bloomin' in the South...

Even though we don't get a riot of leaf color
in the Fall, it isn't a bad deal that we have
flowers and sunshine nine months out of twelve.

VOTING UPDATE: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly haiku...

UPDATE: VOTE for the best before 11 pm Thursday!

So much can be said about this week's topic for
Sparrow's Haiku Challenge:

______________ POLITICS _____________

Put forth your own pith no later than 10 pm Wednesday.
___________


blah. blah. blah. Really?
You don't say. blah. blah. blah. blah.
blah. oops, sorry. blah.

Say please...

We, you and I,
along with them,
will never, possibly sometime,
cautiously once in a while
SCREAM hesitatingly while
requesting not quite boldly
but softer than a whisper...
love me, dammit.

Wisdom from the ages...

h/t Texas Ghostrider

In case you missed the first announcement...

The on-line shop I've been talking about
for months is up, working and open for business.

The Pondering....... store.

Please go browse. I'm proud of what's there so far.
If you have questions or suggestions, leave them in
comments here or send me an email.

Many thanks to Berry and Mick and rsm (serving in A'stan)
and Mark and That Dude and Sparrow and Blaez and
HoosierBoy and CarteachO and Freddie and Big Dick
for linking to the Pondering....... store on their blogs.
I'd appreciate a mention and/or a link from anyone
in the 'sphere.

I have a permanent link at the top of my sidebar.
Click on the photo and it will take you to the store.

I just looked at my butt...

in the bathroom mirror.
holy shit.

I'm towing my own U-Haul trailer back there.

TIME TO VOTE: Drawn to Haiku...

The topic for this week's Haiku Challenge at Allatwitter is:

_________________ ATTRACTION _______________

UPDATE: VOTING is Thursday 'til 11 pm.

Magnets' plus/minus
ends attract not same but the
opposite of ends.

You're there and I'm here.
Still, there is a pull between
us from far away.

it's like the fly on
the flypaper. that's me on
you, just hangin' 'round.