Tag Archives: mountains

2026, Haiku, Ohio River Valley Literature, Poet's Life, poetry, spring, tanka, the no-scape

slowly, mysteries remembered

two haiku and a tanka

13.

morning thunderstorms
and cold rain; open windows
hot coffee brewing

3.28.26


14.

I need these days
quiet, among family, the dogs
to rest, remember

3.29.26

[a tanka the day before visiting Rose Ridge]

a short trip east
to the mountains, ancient rocks
on which are written
earth’s histories erased
slowly, mysteries remembered

[Day book 2026// Spring 3.27-29.26]

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Mick Parsons
Mick Parsons
@rivercitymick

Poet. Essayist. Fictioner. Steamboat fireman. Bit of a grackle.

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2025, Autumn, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

Autumn 2025: 12,13,17-19


12.

reflections of clouds on the river’s skin:
rippled islands of lost tribes
or an angry bull, turning to charge?


13.

storms rumble in, singing of the season
a transitional symphony

make certain to count the buckets
in common time

17.


and then there’s a day, soppy with autumn rain
lovely and tired and still
not wanting the night to wash it away

18.

autumn in Appalachia
shades of green dappled with
oranges, reds, yellow
caressed by morning fog

19.

too soon a return, too soon
the call of sacred machines
the forgetting river
salvation is an erasure
the ashes sealing Pompeii

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everyday words, Ohio River Valley Literature, poetry

no. 3

in the mountains
that possibility of rain scent
smells nothing like a candle
or zombie laundry crystals

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