Chester, New Jersey. Paul Goldfinger ©.
Morning shrubs bending
in December wind—-
the full moon sets
Leonard Cohen “Winter Lady.”
Archive for the ‘Poem by George Held’ Category
Haiku by George Held
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Haiku by George Held
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“In My Room” Photograph by Saul Leiter.
Your bra & panties
hanging on the door—
Do Not Disturb
Joao Gilberto “Outra Vez” (Tr: Another Time)
Haiku by George Held
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Haiku on Blogfinger, Poem by George Held, tagged Haiku by George Held on July 24, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Red belly woodpecker. Ft. Myers, Fla. Paul Goldfinger photo. Click image to enlarge. Poem special to Blogfinger.
Haiku by George Held:
Woodpecker pecks
on the tree across the street,
lost in the thick leaves
YO-YO MA “Silk Road” from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
haiku by George Held
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Photography by Paul Goldfinger, Photography: New York City Street Series, Poem by George Held, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged George Held Haiku on April 15, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The vacant mansion
next door dwarfing my cabin—-
my tulips stand tall
Laura Nyro and La Belle:
*Paul Goldfinger photograph West Village in New York City–early spring. 2013.
Haiku by George Held.
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, George Held, George Held on Blogfinger, Poem by George Held, tagged George Held Haiku on April 1, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Today sun
tomorrow rain and so on —
let the heart soar
JULIE RAFFERTY. from The Fantasticks
Lullaby of Birdland. Osprey. A poem by George Held…
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Poem by George Held, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged George Held Osprey, George Held poem on February 18, 2020| 3 Comments »
An osprey nest on a chimney near the Sanibel Island lighthouse. Florida. Paul Goldfinger photo. Feb. 2020 © Click image to enlarge the bird.
Osprey at the Tropicana Coop in Ft. Myers. 2018 © Paul Goldfinger photo.
Osprey
By George Held.
Osprey, you can see by the dawn’s
Early light
A fish ‘neath the finish of the bay
In your flight
As you circle and soar or you stall
Like a kite,
Ever ready to dive on your prey
When in sight;
Then you drop like a plummet until
You alight
On the brine with your talons outstretched
And they bite
Into scales of that silvery bass, lifting it clear
Of the bight
Of the bay with your ten-horse wings to retake
The sun’s light
And you land on your platform to tend to your nestling’s
End of night
Hunger, tearing the bass with your terrible beak
Into bite-
Sized gobbets for your fledgling to gorge on, its break-
Fast birthright
As your scion, O Osprey, you long-winged king
Of the heights.
This poem is from George Held’s first collection, Winged (1995.)
K.D. LANG
“Skylark.”
George Held haikus aweigh..
Posted in Poem by George Held, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged George Held poet on January 31, 2020| Leave a Comment »
By Paul Goldfinger, Editor@Blogfinger.net
George Held has published another haiku, this time in the Red Eft Review (see their quote in the sentence below.)
“George Held is a prolific writer of haiku and has published them in Red Eft Review, the Aurorean, Blogfinger.net, bear creek haiku, and elsewhere. His latest book is Second Sight (Poets Wear Prada, 2019).”
We thank George for including us in his list of places where his poems roost. (George loves birds.)
Blogfinger is reproducing that Red Eft Review haiku below.
And speaking of shoes (Poets Wear Prada), here is a Blogfinger link to a very recent post of ours about shoes.
And now, ladies and germs, we bring you a haiku by George Held…uh, not so fast! That post will be found if you travel south of here.
Meanwhile, this boy, George, is recognized for what he said, because his words help guide those on journeys:
“Something the Boy Said.” by Sting from his album Ten Summoner’s Tales:
When we set out on this journey
There were no doubts in our minds
We set our eyes to the distance
We would find what we would find
We took courage from our numbers
What we sought we did not fear
Sometimes we’d glimpse a shadow falling
The shadow would disappear
But our thoughts kept returning
To something the boy said…
Haiku by George Held
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Poem by George Held, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged George Held Haiku, George Held poet, Osprey on Sanibel on January 23, 2020| 2 Comments »
Osprey pair feeding young on Sanibel Island. Ding Darling Wildlife Refuge. Paul Goldfinger photo.
Even on Sanibel
hearing the osprey call—-
I miss Sanibel
Wild Tones Bird Calls (Osprey)
SMASHING PUMPKINS: “My Blue Heaven.”
George Held reading one of his poems.
Haiku by George Held:
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Poem by George Held, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged Haiku by George Held, Ocean Grove in winter on August 10, 2019| Leave a Comment »
OG Beach—-in March. Paul Goldfinger photo ©
By George Held:
Even in Ocean Grove—-
Savoring the Atlantic—-
I miss Ocean Grove
BOB DYLAN:
Haiku by George Held:
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Poem by George Held, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged Haiku by George Held on July 13, 2019| Leave a Comment »
Ocean Grove beach. August 2018. Paul Goldfinger © Blogfinger.net Haiku special to Blogfinger by the author.
Sunshine and sun warmth —
another sparkling summer
on the Jersey shore
STUFFY SCHMITT:
Haiku by George Held
Posted in Blogfinger Presents, Poem by George Held, Poetry on Blogfinger, tagged Haiku by George Held, Poet George Held on Blogfinger on March 16, 2018| 4 Comments »
Image taken “before the last storm.” Photographer Gladys Henderson. 2018.
The tip of a yellow
crocus pushing through the snow—
spring fever
DICK HAYMES sings “It Might As Well Be Spring.”