Posted in Nature, Nature vs. Man, Poetry, poetry month, Trees, Uncategorized, tagged Poetry on April 5, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Thank you black crow
For your company this morn.
Are you Poe’s raven
Calling Nevermore?
Thank you majestic oak
For the symphony above
Hi C’s, low C’s
A chorus of chirps, baton free.
Oh, sparrows, sparrows
Wait, wait, you can’t go
Seven on a telephone line,
Complete your haiku ere you go.
Such was my walk this Friday morn,
Around the silent mall
With nature’s best
For companionship.
Posted in Haiku, Morikami Museum FL, Nature, Nature vs. Man, Uncategorized, tagged Morikami Museum, Nature Vs Human on August 20, 2019| 4 Comments »
The sound of my shoes
Breaks the silence of the fog.
Forgive my entrance.
The trees move slowly
Against the cold morning skies…
Or is it the fog?
The sound of geta…
A Samurai’s swinging sword..
A silence, broken.
Haiku inspired by photo: frances kakugawa
Posted in My Rants About Something, Nature, Nature vs. Man, Trees, Uncategorized, Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer, tagged Center for Humans and Nature, Sacramento Poetry Center, Save our trees on February 10, 2019| 2 Comments »
I took this photo during a walk around the neighborhood. That eye spoke to me …
Tree
I see you.
Put that saw away.
You will not use my sisters and brothers
To fill your bank account
With Real Estate towers.
I see you.
Put that saw down.
Look up at my glory,
Home to hundreds of life
More than you can accommodate
In your blue-printed home of destruction.
See me.
Before it is too late.
Frances Kakugawa 2-5-19
Posted in Going Green, Monsanto, Nature, Nature vs. Man, the 21st farmer, Uncategorized, tagged Monsanto on January 3, 2019| 6 Comments »
Dear 21st Century Farmer,
Each time you place a seed into your soil,
What do you think about?
Do you think of fast cash
To replace your brain
For a larger, more digitized tractor?
Insect eradication for abundant crops?
Vocabulary rested on faster, more, faster, more
Or do faces of your grandchildren, their grandchildren
Play among the images in your head?
The inheritors of your soil.
Each time you place a seed into your soil,
Do you get down on your back,
Look up at white clouds dancing, dancing –
Pesticides free, gathering raindrops
For Earth’s purification?
Each time you place a seed into your soil,
Can you take a fistful of soil –
Taste the taste of soil
As they were before you were courted
By “Big 6” pesticide and GMO corporations –
BASF, Bayer, Dupong, Dow Chemical Co. Monsanto, Syngenta ?
Oh, farmer of the 21st century,
Are you indignant of these questions?
Let me hear then, your “How dare you.”
How dare you
Question the integrity of my soul.
How dare you
Before my grandchildren
And their future children.
I am not a farmer for sale.
Frances H Kakugawa
Frances H Kakugawa.
Posted in Climate change, My Books, Nature, Nature vs. Man, Uncategorized, Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer, tagged Stop the Bulldozer, Wordsworth on December 21, 2018| 1 Comment »
How do you like my Holiday tree with so many golden balls…a natural and real tree. To all you readers who, after reading my Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer! book, began to use trees whose roots are still in rich healthy soil, thank you for keeping our planet green. To you, too, who have stopped cutting down trees. Wait, there’s more. See my bulldozer poem under my tree.
The Bulldozer
there was place I sat and dreamed
to music played in my concert grove
branches rubbed against branches
coconuts dropped to the ground…
vines snaked and squeaked their way
seeking the hot noon sun.
frilly fronds danced the wind
lacy limbs brushed their leaves…
sparrows, mynahs spattered notes
low c’s, high c’s and in-between.
a place for cellos, violins
trombones, tubas, crashing brass…
flutes, piccolos, clarinets ,too
a symphony of purest sound.
up and down the scale
notes played every key…
in this place I called my grove
until the monster came.
he gobbled up notes
oh, what a hungry beast…
he ate and ate, grunted and groaned
until there was nothing left
nothing at all.
from: Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer!
Posted in morning glory, Nature, Nature vs. Man, Peace, Uncategorized, tagged morning glory on June 26, 2018| 2 Comments »
I am but a morning glory
A fleeting face at Dawn.
In the midst of Chaos,
For one breathless moment,
I bring Joy! Joy!
Posted in Nature vs. Man, Poetry, Uncategorized, war and peace on May 21, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Be Still, Be Still
What will poets do
Without the first bloom of Spring
Waltzing in the wind?
What will children do
Without slimy green frogs
Slipping through fingers?
What will Basho have seen
Without the leap of the frog
Splash! Then stillness again.
What will you do
Without the sound of stillness
In the morning dew?
What will you do?
frances kakugawa
Posted in Hawaii's Volcanoes, Kapoho: Memoir of a Modern Pompeii, Nature vs. Man, Uncategorized, tagged Hawaii Volcanoes on May 14, 2018| 2 Comments »
The Sea Meeting Pele*
He explodes
Into a million
Molecules
As her fiery tongue
Laps into
His undulating loins,
Sizzling and burning
Every ecstasy.
frances kakugawa
* Hawaiian legendary Goddess of Fire
Posted in Nature, Nature vs. Man, Poetry, poetry month, Uncategorized, Wordsworth! Stop the Bulldozer, tagged Poetry, Saving Earth on April 12, 2017| 4 Comments »
To Homo Sapiens
I am your forest.
The sound of your ax
Silences my voice.
I am your…
I am…
I…
…
*****
I am Salmon.
I am Black Rhino.
I am Honey Bee.
Soon to be fossilized
Into your earth. Unless
You learn to hear
Hummingbird wings.
frances
Posted in Nature, Nature vs. Man, Uncategorized on June 16, 2016| 2 Comments »
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