Haiku & Poem by Judy Liggett- the friend that called and read them to me on the phone

In spring,
 how can one be sad

After feasting on cherry blossoms

     and mockingbird song?

Bird Song

Every evening

Driving  home from work

I roll across a high ridge

Where suddenly the sky

Expands to panoramic.

In the bitterly cold winter evenings,

The sun glowed like a furnace on the horizon.

Every evening the sky was a canvas

Of radiating sumi and pink calligraphic clouds

In art's freest expression of spirit.

Now in the spring

Driving home from work

I  open my eyes suddenly

To expanses of blue and the sun

Shines like a gold medallion

High up over the horizon.

This evening

A raven flew over my car:

A flat, black silhouette

Of spread wing feathers

Painted across panoramic blue.

While walking,

I saw its twin:

A white seagull

Arched under a faint, translucent moon.

 Haiku and Poem by Judy Liggett