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Summer Haiku in West Chicago

December 12, 2020 By General Content

A bee alighted
Fiercely exchanging pollen;
On petal flower

- Judith Horsley

 

Monarch fly and float
Life giving milkweed provides
Food, growth, existence!

- Judith Horsley

 

Moon Desires the Sun
Always rushed by night's despair;
Fears being held there.

- Judith Horsley 

 

Taking the Metra
Window watching at nature
Eastbound to city

- Steve Leuer 

 

Everyone is home
Quarantined togetherness
Peace, quiet, needed

- Steve Leuer 

 

The lake is calming
Gentle waves against sea wall
Rippling waves of peace

- Steve Leuer 

 

America free
To speak, to have faith, to vote
Democracy now

- Steven Durso 

 

I walk in the woods
Listening to birds singing
Nature is peaceful

- Steven Durso 

 

The red-tailed hawk soars
Keen-eyed and stealth-like hunters
Small rodents, watch out!

- Steven Durso 

 

Monarch Butterflies
Land on Milkweed to lay eggs
Metamorphosis

- Anna Leuer 

 

Peace is within us
Accepting our differences
Every life matters

- Anna Leuer 

 

Coyotes near us
Help maintain ecosystems
Trying to survive

- Anna Leuer 

 

You took my spring
a way I'll never forget
all I want fall back

- Anni Holm 

 

A silent moment
we come together to kneel
ALL black lives matter

- Anni Holm 

 

Envision a life
So radically transformed
by outpouring love

- Anni Holm 

 

Face behind cloth mask
Are you friend, neighbor, stranger?
I smaile with my eyes

- Becky Hall 

 

First spring, now summer
We learn new ways of living
Apart -- together

- Becky Hall 

 

A forbidden fruit
Conversation with others
Fills my cup with joy

- Becky Hall 

 

Social distancing
A key to West Chicago
Practice and enjoy

- Anonymous 

 

Gardens planted new
Neighbors reseed connections
Springing buds of hope

- Stephanie Ross 

 

Laughter's joyous bells
Herald summer's hopeful cry
Recover! Rejoice!

- Stephanie Ross 

 

hot sunshine rises
over plumed flowers of us
meeting in our town

- Margaret Beaird 

 

friending in light space
the trees whisper softly on
when will we hear them?

- Margaret Beaird 

 

our party begins
outside in the cricket air --
mariachi sounds

- Margaret Beaird 

 

A haiku contains
Seventeen syllables please
Never less nor more

- Buddy Plumlee 

 

Public restrooms smell
Like disinfectant and soap
After good cleaning

- Buddy Plumlee 

 

Love, respect, be kind
A formula for healing
uniting us all

- Buddy Plumlee 

 

Spring! Spring! I love spring!
Flowers! Rain! No stinging Bees!
Spring! Spring! I love spring!

- Lorelai Genevieve Marr 

 

Beaches are pretty!
Seashells! Sand castles! Ocean!
Beaches are pretty!

- Lorelai Genevieve Marr 

 

Books, Movies, Outside!
Things to do in quarantine!
Games with family!

- Lorelai Genevieve Marr 

 

The oak tree is strong
And yet it is very weak
unless roots are good

- Marjorie Gustafson 

 

Like a butterfly
The pages of my novel
Flutter in the wind

- Marjorie Gustafson 

 

Don't have to be a
Pioneer to go to park
But you will have fun

- Marjorie Gustafson 

 

La marisposa
Volando libre
El dolor de cambiar
Vale la pena

- Amie Correa 

 

Social Distancing
Always stay 6 feet apart
Goodbye Pandemic

- K. Mason 

 

A precious life lost
Your death will not be in vain
Rest in Peace George Floyd

- K. Mason 

 

COVID Pandemic
The world was at a standstill
Social Distancing

- K. Mason 

 

A city of strength
A community of hope
West Chicago, shines

- Salmeen Amir 

 

This city of love
Beautiful people around
West Chicago, shines

- Salmeen Amir 

 

Here for each other
Find the embrace in our hearts
Forward together!

- Heidi Kuharich 

 

The seed is waiting
Possibilities unknown
Miracles in bloom

- Heidi Kuharich 

 

For flowers to grow
They must endure the spring storms
By finding their roots

- Ricky Plumlee 

 

Beware old peaches
For beneath their sweet ripe flesh
Lies a bitter core

- Ricky Plumlee 

 

Black Crow, Coyote
Bald Eagle, and White Bison
Roam America

- Ricky Plumlee 

 

My life became bright
The sun was my only light
Dazzling through the night

- Sarah Plumlee 

 

Life is a mountain
The journey leads to the peak
The peak is the end

- Benjie Plumlee 

 

The Junction was first
Then Turner to pay respect
Now known as WeGo

- Sarah Phalen 

 

Prince Crossing the farm
Mushrooms grew workers toiled
Families found home

- Sarah Phalen 

 

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