Mourning Dove Dawn

poems tread where mere words tremble to venture

Oxford comma

(haiku)

relic
of an ordered, sensible
past


 
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What Is Poetry?

  • Forms of Poetry
  • What's In This Poetry Blog?

Precision Warriors: A Poet's Hall of Fame

  • Ancient Poem
  • Ode To Ancient Haiku Poet Matsuo Basho
  • Reflections On A Twitter Poet's Passing By Suicide
  • Tears Before Breakfast
  • Twitter Haiku Artist

Season Sushi

  • Spring: Anticipating Light
  • Summer: Summer's Sultry Songs
  • Autumn: Falling Hard For Fall
  • Winter: Hysteria In Hibernation

Nature Struck

  • Alarm Clock
  • Crows
  • Glistening, The
  • Hiking Companions
  • Late Summer Concert
  • Majesty
  • Party Poopers
  • Summer Stew

Haiku Collections

  • Fable-ous Haiku
  • Haiku Diarist
  • Haiku Gift Cards
  • Pi-ku

A Parent Gives

  • Can We Talk
  • Chemical Bondage
  • Grown-Up Games
  • Hope Against Hope
  • Local Headlines
  • My "MICA" Child
  • Open Arms
  • Patience
  • Prayer To Saint Jude
  • Tea For One
  • Truths
  • Visit, The
  • War On Drugs

Haibun (prose with haiku)

  • Amidst Desolate Cries Choose Joy Abundant

Image Poetry (poem/image)

  • Love Doodle
  • Profile

Haiga (haiku with image)

  • Big Flakes
  • Hospice
  • Puppy
  • Social Media

Committing Poetry

  • 101 Uses For Friendly Haiku
  • All In A Day's Work
  • Canvas
  • Caught By Poetry
  • Muse-ku
  • Not Yet
  • One Last Poem
  • Poem-Eater
  • Poems. Because
  • Shorthand
  • Taste
  • Time Wanderer
  • Vision
  • What Made You, Poet
  • Writer's Block

Shards of Discarded Soul Mates

  • 47 Obituaries
  • Best Friend
  • Heart Shards Over Ice
  • How To Have A Happy Spouse
  • Incinerator
  • Love Letters: "My Dearest John,"
  • Love Me Like A Panda
  • Lovers' Picnic Checklist
  • Magazine Quiz
  • Moon Over Basho's Garden
  • Smoldering Coals
  • Teen Magazine

Global Heartwarming

  • Educating Malala
  • Flower Child
  • Hope
  • Man Kind
  • Not On My Planet
  • Sleep
  • TV
  • Visionary
  • What Are We Fighting For?
  • What If?

Shorter Poems

  • Empty Nest
  • Man Kind
  • Using A Walker
  • Wedding Vows

Longer Poems

  • Both Ways
  • Educating Malala
  • Forgotten
  • I Woke Up Late This Morning
  • Immortal
  • Life Is Not a Dress Rehearsal
  • Nailed It
  • New Kid On The Writer's Block, The
  • Rocks In Place
  • Shared Decembers
  • Sleep
  • What If?
  • What Made You, Poet

Poem Pastiche (all poems, titles)

  • 100th Birthday
  • 18th Birthday
  • 33rd Wedding Anniversary
  • Accident
  • Afterglow
  • Alarm Clock
  • Almost There
  • Ancient Poem
  • And Don't Come Back 'Til Next Year
  • Ant And Grasshopper
  • Artist's Eye Never Lies, The
  • As Yet, No Sign Of Spring
  • Attraction
  • Autumn Roll Call
  • Bad Haiku
  • Bathroom Horror Story
  • Birds Of A Feather
  • Birthday For One Who Has Everything
  • Blinders On
  • Blue Puzzle
  • Breakfast
  • Bright Side, The
  • Brilliant Smile
  • Burpee's, Packet Of Hope
  • Butterfly Catchers
  • Can We Talk
  • Cast
  • Cautious
  • Chess Mates
  • Christmas
  • Clean-Up Crew
  • Cold Winter
  • College Graduation
  • Come-As-You-Are Party
  • Comfort-Food Poem
  • Coming Out
  • Commuter Boredom Blues
  • Confidante
  • Courtship
  • Coverlet
  • Crows
  • Cycle
  • Dawn Debutante
  • Determination
  • Difficult Situation
  • Dinner
  • Divorce Negotiations
  • Down-Sizing
  • Dregs Of Winter, The
  • Driving Freak-Out
  • Eating Hemmingway's Dust
  • Empty Nest
  • Engagement
  • Exercise
  • Exigent Finesse
  • Existential Assistant
  • Falling Angels
  • Familiar Pen
  • Family Reunion
  • Fickle
  • First Birthday
  • First Hour, The
  • First Pregnancy
  • Flaky
  • Flash Mob
  • Flight
  • Flower Child
  • Flutter Tease
  • Fooled Me
  • Forgiveness
  • Fox And Grapes
  • Get Thee To Goshen!
  • Glistening, The
  • Growing Stronger
  • Grown-Up Games
  • Haiku For A January Morning
  • Haiku Over Easy
  • Haiku Selfie
  • Haiku Whisk Broom
  • Happy Not-My-Own-Religion Holiday
  • Haunted
  • Heart Quakes
  • Hearth
  • Heaven
  • Hidden, The
  • High-School Graduation
  • Hiking Companions
  • Hints
  • Holiday
  • Hope
  • Hospice
  • How To Have A Happy Spouse
  • Hurry It Up!
  • Icon
  • Intense
  • Intervention
  • Intimate Connections
  • It Keeps
  • Juicy Delight
  • Late Summer Concert
  • Late Winter Hike
  • Laugh Lines
  • Local Headlines
  • Logging Out
  • Loner
  • Long Engagement
  • Longest Month, The
  • Loss Of A Beloved Pet
  • Love Me Like A Bird
  • Love Me Like A Cat
  • Love Me Like A Dog
  • Love Me Like A God
  • Love Me Like A Horse
  • Love Me Like A Mirror
  • Love Me Like A Mom
  • Love Me Like A Rose
  • Magazine Quiz
  • Majesty
  • Match
  • Maybe Tomorrow
  • Midnight
  • Midnight Muncher
  • Migrating Sunbeam
  • Missing You
  • Mission
  • New Driver
  • Newborn
  • Newer Eyes
  • News Overload
  • Night Light
  • Noon
  • Not All Poems Have A Title
  • Not On My Planet
  • Ode To Ancient Haiku Poet Matsuo Basho
  • On The Sidelines
  • One Last Poem
  • Open Arms
  • Open First
  • Out Of Season
  • Over-The-Hill Birthday
  • Oxford Comma
  • Pacing In Place
  • Pamper Your Haiku
  • Party Invitation
  • Party Poopers
  • Patience
  • Patience, Patience
  • Pedestal
  • Pi Poem Party
  • Pi Poem Passionate
  • Pi Poem Pasture
  • Pi Poem Pick
  • Pi Poem Piquant
  • Pi Poem Pre-Teens
  • Pi Poem Pretend
  • Pi Poem Puzzles
  • Picture Window Sunbathing
  • Poetry Marketplace
  • Poetry Photoshoot
  • Popcorn
  • Posy
  • Reaching
  • Recipe For Haiku
  • Reconciliation
  • Reflections On A Twitter Poet's Passing By Suicide
  • Resolution
  • Retirement
  • Rite Of Passage Into Young Adulthood
  • Saying Goes . . . , The
  • Self-Orienteering
  • Separation
  • Shared Decembers
  • Shorthand
  • Sickness
  • Slacker
  • Sleepyheads
  • Slo-Mo
  • Smoldering Coals
  • Sniffing
  • Snow Angels
  • Snow Bound
  • Social Mirror
  • Speeding Ticket Explanation
  • Spring Love Dance
  • Spring Mirage
  • Spring Sunbeams
  • Sproing!
  • Stalker
  • Step Away From The Small Screen
  • Stern Haiku
  • Stoked
  • Stormy Harbor
  • Sudsy Shower
  • Sugar High Colors
  • Summer Stew
  • Summer's Airs
  • Summer's Echos
  • Summer's Frights
  • Summer's Heats
  • Summer's Invitation
  • Summer's Neons
  • Summer's Sun Understudy
  • Summer's Toys
  • Sunrise
  • Sunset
  • Sure Sign Of Spring
  • Sweets
  • Sympathy
  • Tag-Team Wrestling Play-By-Play
  • Taking Flight
  • Tales
  • Tea For One
  • Tearfalls
  • Tears Before Breakfast
  • Tearstream
  • Teen Magazine
  • Thank You To A Volunteer
  • Things I See Only After Perking Up
  • Ticket
  • Time Wanderer
  • Too Generous
  • Tortoise And Hare
  • Town Crier
  • Trip Inside
  • Truths
  • Tv
  • Twinkle In My Sky, The
  • Twitter Haiku Artist
  • Under One's Breath
  • Unwound
  • Unyielding Horizon
  • Vernal Dance Step
  • Vision (101 Uses For Friendly Haiku)
  • Vision (Haiku)
  • Visionary
  • Visit, The
  • Wary
  • Wedding
  • Wedding Vows
  • What Are We Fighting For?
  • What If
  • What Made You, Poet
  • When My Vagina Saved My Life
  • Winter Is Too Stingy With Its Sunlight
  • Winter Sloth
  • Winter Stampede
  • Winter Woods
  • Writer's Block
  • Writer's Ice Block
  • Writing My Obituary
  • Z, At Last

Order, Alphabetical (all poems, first lines)

  • A Child's Precious Smiles
  • A Mourning Dove Dawn
  • A New Poet Or Two, A New Pair Of Books
  • A Single Bird Calls
  • A Tiny Haiku
  • After I Read Your Obituary
  • After-Shakes Constant
  • All Shaken Awake
  • Ant Fills His Pantry
  • Ant Works To Find Food.
  • Are Those Butterflies?
  • Are We There Yet?
  • Artist's Vision Lost
  • As My Son Undergoes Treatment
  • As You Celebrate
  • As You Find Your Path
  • AshiAkira
  • At The Outer Limits
  • Autumn Leaves Dancing
  • Autumn's Winds Swirl Leaves
  • Badminton, Frisbee,
  • Basho's Frog's Pond Splash
  • Bathe My Soul In Joy
  • Believe In Our God
  • Black Crow On Hot Roof
  • Booze Has Lost Its Kick
  • Bread, Milk, Eggs, Water
  • Campfire Songs
  • Carrot Nose
  • Celebrate
  • Certainty
  • Choke On Weak Coffee?
  • Cleaning Out My Heart
  • Colored Puffs On Hills
  • Congratulations!
  • Counting Syllables
  • Cradle My Teacup
  • Crickets Chirp At Dusk
  • Crows In Poetry?
  • Daffodils Abed
  • Dainty Blue Eggshell
  • Daisies In The Snow
  • Dawn Draws Out My Muse.
  • Dawn: Mourning Dove's Coos
  • Dazzling Haiku Star!
  • Elsie
  • Ex-es Play No Part
  • Exercise Calls Me
  • February Skies
  • Feed Haiku With Love
  • Fighting Addiction
  • Fireflies, Flashlights, Stars,
  • Following Winter Solstice
  • Forget GPS
  • Forgive My Boldness!
  • Frog ~ ~ ~ Pond ~ ~ ~ Splash
  • Fully-Dressed Novels
  • Get Your Haiku On
  • Ghost Stories At Camp
  • Glossary: "Poem" "Haiku" "Senryu"
  • Grapes Too High To Reach?
  • Grasses Grow And Grow
  • Great Accomplishment!
  • Grit Your Teeth And Smile
  • Haiku Believe You
  • Haiku Describes It, (Vision - 101 Uses For Friendly Haiku)
  • Haiku Describes It, (Vision - Haiku)
  • Haiku Fire Me Up!
  • Haiku Poetry
  • Haiku! Perfect For
  • Happy Morning News
  • Hare Napped During Race;
  • Having A Baby
  • Having A Great Pet
  • Having Really Looked,
  • Heard You're Expecting
  • Heed The Cicada
  • Holding On, 'Til Spring
  • How Sweet This Salad!
  • How To Keep Smiling
  • I Hate My Treadmill
  • I Must Have Written
  • I Read, A Pilot
  • I'm Not A Poet Yet
  • I've Seen Many Horrors
  • If "Joy" Were A Gift
  • If I Am Awakened Before Dawn
  • If You Once Ever
  • If You Think You're Weird
  • Impatient For Spring
  • In Far-Off Japan
  • In February
  • In My Next Life (Both Ways)
  • In My Next Life (Profile)
  • Innocent Haiku
  • It's Been A Long Day
  • Just Before Midnight,
  • Just Had My Coffee
  • Just Want To Tell You
  • Key Lime Pie
  • Last Summer's Music
  • Late-Night Snacking Muse...
  • Leaves Do Not Plummet
  • Leftover Haiku
  • Leisure Awaits You
  • Life Just Isn't Fair
  • Live In Harmony
  • Look Out, New Driver!
  • Losing Pieces
  • Love Me Like A Bird
  • Love Me Like A Cat
  • Love Me Like A Dog
  • Love Me Like A God
  • Love Me Like A Horse
  • Love Me Like A Mirror
  • Love Me Like A Mom
  • Love Me Like A Rose
  • Loves Me Like A Dog
  • Made For Each Other
  • Many-Colored Lawns
  • March Has A Choke-Hold!
  • Marching On The Trail
  • Married To A Man
  • Mathematics
  • Meaningless Haiku
  • Morning's Bright Sunshine
  • Mourning Dove Dawn
  • My Day Today Was Ruined
  • My Dear, Dear, Sweet Friend
  • My Experiences
  • My Favorite Poet
  • My First Kiss
  • My Haiku Calls Me,
  • No Matter My Wishes
  • No Pen, For Capture,
  • Not A Bit Of Green
  • Not A Day Goes By
  • Not All Poems Rhyme
  • Ocean Waves Beckon
  • Oh, Beautiful Fir!
  • One Hundred Years Young
  • Orange Flames Flicker
  • Our Favorite Poem (In Our Heads)
  • Pausing At Lunchtime
  • Pawing Through The Snow
  • Perched On Neighbor's Roof
  • Poet,
  • Preparing My Brain
  • Quiz: "What Is True Love?"
  • Real Sunshine At Last
  • Remembering You
  • Rent From Your Bosom
  • Roadkill Distraction
  • Say "Mother, May I?"
  • Searching For Flowers,
  • Seeing The Swans
  • Sensible Oatmeal
  • Set My Heart On Fire
  • Sharing This Moment
  • Shoveling My Driveway
  • Sitting In The Dark
  • Skipping Stones
  • Slothful Winter Sun
  • Snow Banks Between Us!
  • Snow Lounges On Deck
  • Snowstorm In Window
  • Snowstorm's Flurries Swirl
  • So Very Sorry
  • Soaking In My Son
  • Sorry You Are Ill
  • Spring A Month Away
  • Startled By Puppy
  • Stumbling In Darkness
  • Suddenly, Haiku
  • Summer Sounds Linger
  • Summer's Sounds Linger
  • Summer's Sun Warms Me,
  • Sun-Bathing Beauties
  • Suspect Still At Large
  • Sweet Chemistry Wins:
  • TV Civil Wars
  • Taking Time To Watch
  • Thank God Things Do Change
  • The Best Things In Life
  • The Corners Of Humanity
  • The Melting Snow Piles
  • The Prodigal Son
  • The Tiny Coral
  • There Are Worse Ways
  • They're Great A Short Time
  • Tiny Companion
  • To Survive Winter
  • Today You're Grown Up
  • Together As One
  • Too Cold For Haiku
  • Too Much Honesty
  • Trying My Patience
  • Under Snow's Surface
  • Vietnam Conflict
  • War Is Always Fought
  • We Appreciate
  • We Wish
  • We're All In This Heat
  • What Are You Wearing?
  • What If The Best Tasting Foods
  • What Made You, Poet?
  • When All Decide They Cannot Eat
  • Who Cares How You Start
  • Wild Jackals Rip
  • Winter Haiku
  • Wishing You Great Strength
  • Write Haiku Daily
  • Writing My Haiku
  • Yen For Fresh Peaches
  • You Are Invited!
  • You Are Not Alone
  • You Know You're Having A Good Day As A Writer Of Poetry
  • You Live Far Away
  • You Still Surprise Me
  • You Told Me Your Boss
  • You're Eighteen Years Old

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