She reaches for the A.C.
Midsummer madness
© 2021 Steph Abbott. All rights reserved.
Midsummer Madness
Category: Poetry
My juggled thoughts.
Wait, Before you Go (Again)
Wait, before you go
Savor friends and sip of stress
Become family
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About this post:
The GIF photo is from a cup of coffee I had with a friend this morning.
The illustration and haiku are from a post in 2014. See “Wait, Before You Go.” This content was also reblogged in 2017. See “Wait, Before You Go, #WritingBravely.
Today, have reblogged this haiku (again), because I am exhausted. Mondays can be stressful, yes? I appreciate your understanding.
Also, I found it to be conventient for today’s #NaBloPoMo18 prompt: “Imagine you and I have met for a cup of coffee (or a glass of wine). What would you tell me if we were having a cup of coffee?” courtesy of the Reticulated Redhead.
————–©2018 Stephanie Abbott. All rights reserved.
Roiling for a New Day
Roiling robustly
Her eye percolates and pops
Aromatically
© 2018 Steph Abbott. All rights reserved,
Cheers to you for a rich, robust, and smooth new year. I wrote this haiku after drinking a lovely cuppa joe that I brewed in my percolator this morning.
Wait, Before You Go, #WriteBravely
If we were having coffee, I might recite this haiku…
Wait, before you go
Savor friends and sip of stress
Become family
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© 2017 Steph Abbott. All rights reserved.
I created the image shown above for a post a few years ago. See “Wait, Before You Go.”
Today, I am reblogging content I created years ago, because I am sick and tired. Seriously, I am not feeling well, and it is getting late. I have to get up early tomorrow for work. And, I doubt my readers will notice the redundancy. I appreciate your understanding.
I am taking part in The Write Tribe Festival of Words #6. Day 7 of the Write Tribe Festival of Words #6 and today’s prompt is: Day 7 (11 Aug/Fri) – ‘If we were having coffee…….’
This is the last day of the festival and writing challenge. I may not post for a while, so in the meantime, heed my words…
Wait, before you go, write bravely.
#TGIF #writebravely #writetribe #festivalofwords
Spending the Day at Del Mar #WritingBravely
Ocean spray, Palomar air, preferred parking.
Thoroughbred club, Kentucky turf, gates open.
Pearl-snap shirts, weathered jeans, shit kickers.
Collared shirts, linen shorts, boat shoes.
Printed tees, cowboy boots, straw hats
Silk sheaths, feathered bonnets, scuffed pumps
Chestnuts, at the post, down the stretch, five and a half furlongs.
Claims race, blinkers on, filly stakes.
Parimutel, exacta box, pick 3.
Jockeys, trainers, owners.
Buy the race, in the money, he wagers.
With patience, yet lonely, she waits.
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Copyright 2017 Steph Abbott. All rights reserved.
I am taking part in The Write Tribe Festival of Words #6
Writing prompt: Share about a resource/s you have or use.
My Resource: Patience.
Writing challenge: Write Tribe Festival of Words. #WTFOW #writetribe #festivalofwords #writingbravely
Day Glow Slug
Nightly garden trail
To glisten before sunrise
Day glow slug to fry
I doodled this faux black velvet painting using Omnisketch last night. I wrote the haiku this morning. ©2017 Stephanie Abbott. All rights reserved.
A Bee to Full Moon
Beauty slows to find
Daisy’s bright blooms, petals cooled
Basking in Moon’s glow
I sketched this busy bee using Omnisketch, befor I wrote the haiku. ©2017 Stephanie Abbott. All rights reserved.
Nest Echoes
He branches upward
The world withstanding, she gasps
For life’s love to nest
I doodled this bedazzled tree using ArtRage while listening to CéU (CéU) and Echoes of Nature (Gregorian Garden), before I wrote the haiku. ©2017 Stephanie Abbott. All rights reserved.
I am a fish
Diving in the deep
I panic too late gasping
What about the sharks
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Wednesday, April 19, 2017. I recently felt like a flounder–stuck at the bottom and overwhelmed by the heavy seas. Today I realized my fins are not anchors. I am a fish. Tonight, I doodled the image using ArtRage, then I wrote the haiku while watching the reality TV show, “Survivor.” ©2017 Stephanie Abbott. All rights reserved.
Joan of Arc in Haiku
Pious, French, fighter
Tried for heresy, retried
Charred beauty to saint
Haiku and photos by a passing observer, Stephanie Abbott. Sculpture, plaque, and piety provided by the grace of others.
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Monday, April 17, 2017. Today, I snapped this picture of a painted statue of Saint Joan of Arc that stands in front of the St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lucky for me, today happens to be National Haiku Poetry Day. Tonight, I wrote this haiku in honor of the anniversary of her beautification (April 18, 1909 at Notre Dame de Paris by Pope Pius X).
