After writing two poems for this week’s Ronovan Writes Haiku Weekly Poetry Challenge (see my Quilted Poetry post of Monday, 6 July 2020: Stargazing), I found myself wanting to write a few more and continue the fun.
as evening’s lights dim
the mind drifts from thoughts to dreams
restless ripples goneafloat on night’s calm waters
cradled in sea lullabies
Copyright © 2020-07-08, by Lizl Bennefeld.

flowers in sunlight
the Painted Ladies curtsy…
settle in for tea
Copyright © 2020-07-08, by Lizl Bennefeld.
time almost never
matches with the goals at hand…
hurry? more rewrites?would that time were elastic
or my planning more precise
Copyright © 2020-07-07, by Lizl Bennefeld.
No photographs for now but some Painted Lady butterflies from my archives, since we had two or three summers of a larger-than-usual population of them, here in the Red River Valley.
The Scampers, yesterday and today, had some stomach irritations, which ran into distress, coddling, and temporarily, short rations. All is now quiet. The Scampers are asleep.