Poets Salon: Spring Is Coming

POETS SALON

– 03/22/23

Hosted by Kathabela Wilson

Year of the Rabbit
she hops to Pasadena
flowers in her shoe

~ Kathabela

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Spring is coming. Watercolor by kris moon kondo

Sharon Hawley

big moon
falls asleep
before dawn
after guiding
a skier to her car

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deep snow on aspen mountain

too loose for snowshoes
but not for the trees
soon i’ll be home for spring

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Descending into spring. Watercolor by kris moon kondo

Patricia Smith

my heated jeep

descends
the mountain
into spring

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picnic on the ice

two chairs
link arms
waiting for spring

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Laughing Mountain, Sumi and Watercolor by kris moon kondo

kris moon kondo

the mountains laugh

the river gurgles
we all giggle
when grandkids visit

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Spring is Coming: Notes and Credits

Sharon Hawley of Pasadena is an adventurer to places where most folks don’t go.

Patricia Smith lives down the hall from Spring, in Pasadena and is a reader at the Huntington Library.

kris moon kondo is a poet and artist who has lived for over forty years in the small village of Kanagawa, in Japan. She has made many visits to the US, joining haiku conferences and visiting Poets on Site in Pasadena.

Suggest your own theme. or write Kathabela for a theme suggestion. We publish every two weeks. Send short poems, free verse, haiku, senryu, tanka, cherita, haibun, tanka prose, short prose poems, etc., or your own unique approach, to Kathabela by text message or (click here to email her directly). We can feature your work again after five months. Multiple Submissions can be saved to appear later:

1. Send a short bio, with comments on your theme.
2. Send photos or artwork by you, or friends.
3. Put your poems directly in the email.
4. No attachments except photos.

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