So new she's translucent; exploring blueberries— infant snail photograph with text of haiku as in post
Here's an old favorite of mine ...
I wished to be small
in a world ripe with sweetness—
snail
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art sriluka
brown-striped & lustrous, inquisitive upon fern fronds you ascend— snail photograph
even here, beneath chill rains
we dwell in potencies of green—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Alabastra
red-eyed & pale green, they swim in blue— frogs photograph
even the blue heart of winter
cannot refuse
spring’s delicate green joys
🐸🌿
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #frog
#art Wil Mijer
#resist
asleep in her sprouted moss-bed, grey as morning —snail photograph
this winter rain allows us sleep
close-curled, contented—
snail
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Nele
#resist
snowflake flowers blooming through autumn leaf-fall, play host to — snail painting
let us dance spring imminent,
whether snowflakes blossom
for us or fall — snail
❄️🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #AfterIssa #snail
#micropoem
#art Snail on Spring Snowflakes (Leucojum vernum): Jan Siwmir
#resist
Snail climbs a spider's fragile web into an unknown blue sky photograph
fragile, inescapable
nets of hope & fear ally us—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem #AfterIssa #snail
#art Krunoslav Večenaj
#smallpoemsunday
#resist
on a trunk of white birch green-shelled Snail contemplative photograph
on snowy birch
your kindly green recalls to me
a certainty of spring—snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #AfterIssa #snail
#micropoem
#art C/A Evanno
#resist
snail advances up a curled green tendril behind, a blurred red blossom photograph
never the straight path
yet still we struggle upward—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Bayu Sanjaya
#resist
black frog marked in midnight blues explores a sunrise- yellow blossom photograph
though cloaked in darkness, still
we seek the world's brilliance—
frog
☀️
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #frog
#art Jon Fuller
#resist
a bright yellow leaf a small green frog entranced with blue butterfly's arrival photograph
we cleave to precarious certainties
yet elusive graces still astound us—
frog
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #frog
#art Wil Mijer
#resist
leaf-stem her bulwark, ivy leaf her shelter; even a small red-eyed green frog avoids a hard rain's fall photograph
even the bravest rover
may betimes require shelter—
frog
🌬🌱
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #frog
#art Kutub Uddin
#resist
snail in her translucent brown house, mosses her shelter rain her music photograph
snail, snail
outside your door
wind is wuthering
small rains persistent
yet indecisive
let us curl quietly together
into a small sleep
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Vadim Trunov
#resist
snail traverses blue-sky puddle, faithfully followed by 2 smaller— snails photograph
family is often difficult— nonetheless,
we search out blue skies together— snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Huta Zabiowolska
#resist
intrepid, armored in her striped house, Snail stretches to investigate clear bubble three times the size of her small existence photograph
assuredly this curious world
confounds & yet sustains us—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem #AfterIssa #snail
#art Vyacheslav Mishchenko
#resist
oops, forgot
#AfterIssa
two opposing snails two opposed twigs between them a drop falls into water below: one snail looks up at the drop rebounding the other looks down at the splash arising one moment, breath-held in ordinary time photograph
how remarkable the occasional
result of ordinary occurrences—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Vadim Trunov
#resist
snail approaches a supine striped flower over black stone pediment below an extravagant bouquet painting: Still Life of Flowers (with Snail) by Jan Davidsz de Heem
snail approaches a supine striped flower over black stone pediment painting: detail of Still Life of Flowers (with Snail) by Jan Davidsz de Heem
from a vantage of cold stone
is our joy still attainable
snail?
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem #AfterIssa #snail
#art Jan Davidsz de Heem
#resist
two snails, one larger meet in rain on a curved green stem, & kiss photograph
how tenderly love lightens
the burdens we carry daily—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Vadim Trunov
#WorldKindnessDay
#resist
two snails, one larger meet in rain on a curved green stem, & kiss photograph
how tenderly love lightens
the burdens we carry daily—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Vadim Trunov
#WorldKindnessDay
#resist
mossy ground, one snail perched atop a small mushroom observes another riding a seed parasol down currents of sunlight photograph
how gently love floats away
our troubles in this world —
snail
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Kristie Urbanski
#WorldKindnessDay
#resist
traveling down one branch clearly separated from its counterpart, green Snail unexpectedly meets a joining place: two become one larger, sturdier more trustworthy? photograph
two paths so clearly separate
may yet lead to one way forward—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Miguel Catalan
#resist
brown snail clings to the tip of a frond's branchlet: it droops under her tiny weight photograph
dare we hope it may avail us
to hold to fragile certainties,
snail?
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Heyfiki
#resist
alert brown snail perched on slender brown mushroom mossy bed beneath: her safety cushion photograph
how purposeful & balanced
your ascent toward discovery—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Agorastos Papatsanis
the web of days spirals
us inward, to the turning
of the year — snail
🐌🕸
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Jan Siwimir
#resist
two snails peer down over the sharp edges of iris leaf-blades photograph
a long way down
to find a sleeping place—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Vyacheslav Mishchenko
#resist
rainy night: brown snail reaches for a single raindrop perched calmly on a slender grass stem bridge photograph
how exuberant these nights
of our rainy season—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Vadim Trunov
#resist
brown snail investigates yellow-orange leaf autumnal glow-up photograph
though the undertow of gravity
drags toward adversity,
we cling to beauty— snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Sophie Pan
#resist
Escargatoire: snail nursery or grouping brown snails inhabiting strong green jointed stems horsetail rushes spotlit against black photograph
Escargatoire*
what minimalist murmurs
must calm your conclaves —
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Maia Valenzuela
*snail nursery/grouping of snails
#resist
brown snail sleeps on a mossed log— rainforest autumn photograph
in chill green weather
how pleasant to remain at home—
snail
🐌
#poem L.C. Goodwin
#haiku #micropoem
#AfterIssa #snail
#art Marc Schroth
#resist
