Cute Little Biological Markers - poor attempts at Senryu

 

Lawrence Hall

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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's Journal of Life, Literature and Love

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Cute Little Biological Markers

 

For our Emily

Who set a thoughtful challenge

To define the term

 

The lives of our frogs

Biological markers

Tell us of toxins

 

If frogs have clean air

And fresh clean water and bugs

We will have clean frogs

 

Healthy little frogs

To celebrate our health too

They give us great joy!

Romantic Arctic Frogs - poem

Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com

Romantic Arctic Frogs

Are frogs cold-blooded? Or merely stupid?
A freeze tonight – and they’re playing Cupid!

The Frogs of January

Lawrence Hall
Mhall46184@aol.com

The Frogs of January

Have the frogs of January lost their minds?
This is the season of reptilian sleep,
To leave the winter’s frozen world behind
And keep their dormant lives in storage deep

This balmy dusk is not a time for song;
This temporary warmth is but a cruel tease;
Frogs won’t sing through this winter dusk for long:
The soft winds whisper of a coming freeze.