Morning Glories glow
Smiling duet shines brightly
Soon fade as seeds drop
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
Haiku
Sediments
Today I worked on a lawnmower that would not run for a neighbor in our development. Some of you will recognize this as the carburetor bowl. As you can see it has dirt and sediments is mixed in with the gas. When the gas gets sucked through the carburetor to the cylinder those sediments clog up the jets and keep the gas from flowing, stalling out engine. Once the carburetor was cleaned and the gas tank drained, I added new gas and the engine started right up.
Summer lawns grow fast
Sediments keep mower stalled
Clean carb lets it run
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Distractions in life
Often stall relationships
Clean out sediments
Photo: Dwight L. Roth
Chasing Windmills
Slowly floating down the canal at Kinderdjik, we looked up amazed at the giant windmills. We were told that people lived in the windmills and there was a waiting list for those who wanted to live in one. It was a beautiful, serene site, the bank lined with reeds and ducks floating nearby.
About half-way down the row of Windmills, I looked up, surprised to see a young girl perched on small shelf peaking over the big steel wheel that turned the windmill into the wind. She seemed to find it interesting to watch all the tourists come and go wondering why they were so captivated by what she simply considered to be home.
As we approached, her mother, behind the reeds, was hanging their clothes on a line to dry. This is a much simpler life than most of us live. It is a wonderful place to come of age.
Looking up I see
Girls’ shy eyes peering at us
Wash dries in sunshine
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
Merril’s Monday prompt for d’Verse is Looking Up. Join us at: https://dversepoets.com
Hard Situations
I saw this plant coming up out of my concrete sidewalk this week. The temperatures have been in the 90s F but this “weed” is growing, blooming and thriving in the hardest of situations. We must be more like weeds; tenacious, resilient, and strong in the hard times of our life!
Sometimes
We must grow and bloom
in hard situations
Photo: Dwight L. Roth
Summer Harvest (haiku)
Summer’s Gold shining
Goldfinch finding lunchtime meal
One seed at a time
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
Geometric Strength
Triangles form curved
arches spanning New River
Solid steel rainbow
Cars hum on asphalt
Tractor trailors test its strength
Fractals of steel rust
Winding steps go down
Stairway to “Almost Heaven…”
“West Virginia”
Photos of New River Bridge: Dwight L. Roth
Today at d’Verse, Lisa asked us to reflect on fractals and how they could be used in poetry. They are small replicas within reflecting a larger whole. The New River Bridge crosses the New River Gorge in West Virginia. I drove across it and then stopped and took some photos. It is most impressive to see. The way the steel is put together… small triangles creating and arch which creates large triangles on each side of the bridge… is amazing. I wrote in Haiku creating poetic fractals of the larger whole poem. Hopefully my understanding of this is correct.
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Summer Butterflies
I just could not help myself today, when I saw these beautiful butterflies on my Zinnias. I kept shooting and shooting. and they stayed around flitting from flower to flower, poetry in motion! With my 200mm zoom, I was able to focus all the way in on them. These are some of the most beautiful butterflies I have seen!
Beauty flits lightly
from yellow to red buffet
Basking in sunshine
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
“… Wonderfully Made”
Perfectly designed
Fragile wings strong and agile
A blue-eyed beauty
NASA couldn’t design one…
Not for a billion dollars
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
Petals or Crown (Haiku)
Nectar found
in your crown of life’s wisdom
Not in petals lost
Bees and Hummingbirds know this…
for wisdom is more precious than rubies, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
~Bible Gateway
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
Hummingbird Feeding
I planted a Purple Hyacinth outside my kitchen window, and it is now blooming. The beautiful purple blooms have attracted the hummingbirds. i have seen them a few times as I come and go in the Kitchen. This evening a female hummingbird was flitting about among the blossoms gathering nectar. I got my camera and thought I might get a shot or two, but she stayed and kept posing for my photos. I was very excited to get these beautiful shots to share with you. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Purple flower bloom
Inviting my hummingbird
Temperature soaring
Photos: Dwight L. Roth
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