Best Strider Poems
Dancing on water,
With swirls of blissful motion;
Aquatic ballet.
Drop of dew falling
On pond renders ripple rings
That radiate out
Bobbing a water strider
Rocking strider up and down
Strider like spider
Listens with six feet floating
For surface to shake.
Like spider waits web to quake
To ring alarm vibration.
Spider and strider
Listening for shakes with feet,
One in air rattled,
One on pond surface rippled,
Both wearing their dancing shoes.
the water strider
skims the creek - constant coaxing
concentric circles
6/23/2022
Summer Nature Themed Haiku
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
Used HMS 5/7/5
Dream strider: Walking statue dream
Will you whisper to me what it all means?
Angel: crying streams...
And fluttered dreams...
Dream strider: walking statue dream
Show me the way to the living stream
Angel: upon the horizon...
Look to the east
Great star arising
Dream strider: walking statue dream
Grant me my bread, my soul desperately feens
Angel: fear not the beast...
The Lord is the feast
Dream strider: walking statue dream
Your wisdom forever beams
Angel: while the wicked fall,
Desperately climbing..
A legend continues to unfold
His very presence burns..
Silencing the cold
Dream strider: walking statue dream
I have heard, and I do believe
Angel: revolution of a man
Dividing the lands...
Long dead...is Babylon's plan
Dream strider: Phantom post endearment
My dear who I long to see...
Yet deep down, I know it's just a dream...
Anonymous spirit: what do you mean?
What is just a dream?
Dream strider: phantom post endearment
You know my words, yes
My fondness for you I must confess
Anonymous spirit: speak plainly
It's meaning is shrouded, and quiet rainy
Dream strider: phantom post endearment
My heart is hidden, buried in blocks of cement
Through my strides, I do vent
Anonymous spirit: you poor dear
Your pain, I feel it near
Dream strider: phantom post endearment
Your face is hidden but it's essence leaves a print
Mine also hidden, my soul ignites like Flint
Anonymous spirit: you speak oddly,
But i do enjoy your poetic body
Dream strider: phantom post endearment
Speaking in hymns...
Knowing you'll listen, maybe read between the lines
Anonymous spirit: I can hear you, u know
'see what?' (she questions, her head hangs low)
Dream strider: phantom post endearment
What dreams may come, my love-born
I dream stride, then transform
Anonymous spirit: what is this you speak of?
Are you truly in love?
Dream strider: phantom post endearment
I'm aching for you, can you hear it?
I'm caught, helpless in your caressing fit
Anonymous spirit: no,..you can't be...
You've never even seen me!
Dream strider: phantom post endearment
My dear,
Longing for you burns...
Then Sears
Anonymous spirit: (she sighs) then disappears..
Deep down she feels it.. the way it Sears....
Dream strider: phantom post endearment
Hymn- crossed love
Might not be... no. Maybe no other
Anonymous spirit: she glances back then whispers..
Could this be love?
My dove?