Shrouded Shore: The Many Musings of Thom Singleton

  Tuesday Haiku We have a sculpture It’s a family circle Holding each other You can almost hear… Drummer, guitarist, singer Pictures on our wall In everyone’s life A little rain must fall But everyday? Eight year old baseball If you can hit the ball It will get you on base Sour grapes, sweet apples No blame…I chose them both Isn’t that just like life? A pounding on the roof I awaken and get up Five AM rain storm Blonde woodwork, sloped roofline Our mid-century modern  Younger than I am The downpour has stopped It looks like an indoor day Finish our job at church My daily breakfast Apples, grapes, toast, and coffee It works for me Deer, coyote, hawk All in our yard, a meadow Not at the same time

  The Masterpieces of Summer Petunias play a silent tune, quiet but a riot of color. Bleeding hearts share their crimson wound, bleeding with beauty.  Cannon shoots a shot of brilliance with purple leaves and bursting blooms. Clover with its blossoms of white makes for a carpet that's quite a sight. Geraniums create a bed of red, redolent with flowers and verdant bowers. Clematis with its purple flowers could be called "climbatis" because its vine towers. Day lilies, so orange and so yellow, do nothing if they don’t make you feel quite mellow. Flowers are the masterpieces of summer, grow so beautiful they’re the meaning of “stunner.”

  Today’s Haiku Live edge furniture Is it alive? Not really Looks like how it grew It’s Horicon Marsh A misty picture of it Geese and ducks landing All in our backyard,,, Turkey, crane, deer, fox, coyote What can be next, bear? My breakfast today,,, Coffee, apple, vitamins The same everyday It’s beautiful out The flowers are brilliant Pat’s care for them shows It’s sunny today There’s morning light through the trees Thanks. Ol’ Solius Sun, rain, nutrients Good care provided by Pat The flowers can’t miss Our plants are lucky With such a good caregiver Pat cares for me, too! Unitarian,,, Everyone calls it “UU” …Universalist One final haiku Then it’s off to church, UU, Called a “fellowship”

  A Few Haiku Hummingbirds are here. Bring on the sugar water It keeps them humming What’s this life about? Living the past? The future? No, it’s each moment The pendulum swings  My clock - my life - is ticking Love every moment Singers sing love songs Artists love with paint and brush Poets love with words It was a good walk Ambled the Fox Riverway An egret watched us Clouds drift in the blue Canadians cross the lawn Flock of geese, that is The river flows fast Kayakers pull hard To stay in one place Loving is giving Just giving it away You’ll always have more An owl has sharp eyes He can outstare anyone He sure outstared me. We have a wood duck It’s a wood duck made of wood A wooden wood duck 

  He’s Up, He’s Down Sad face of a clown Or is it a frown? Just got put down From a girl in town But now he’s up She invited him to sup Of kindness, a cup He’s loving like a pup She’s attracted by his sound A singer of renown He’s no longer down Wearing a smile like a crown

  I’m the Earth, She’s the Sun Like the Earth around the Sun, a steady, round run She’s given me a whirl Not just my hon’, to me her love stuns She’s given me a whirl My heart she’s won, like her there’s none She’s given me a whirl Not one and done, for years I’ve spun She’s given me a whirl I love her a ton, she is a lot of fun She’s given me a whirl