Sedoka

 

Favorite Things

 

Fourth of July, 2025

 

After the Workmen Leave

 

They Aren't All Gone. Yet.

 

Chant of the June Garden

 

Chant of the June Garden

Boneset
hummingbird
Bowman’s Root
bee

zinnia sprout
hollyhocks
Cardinal Flower
weeds

coral bells
baby dill
fennel fronds
tree

clematis
foxglove
primrose
me

(c) Mary Lee Hahn, 2025

We Do Not Care

 

Letter to an Awkward Sixteen Year-Old Dragging Main

 

A golden shovel using a line from Elizabeth Bishop’s “Letter to NY” 

Hello!

 

Fuel

Counter

 In typography, the small space inside letters is called a counter.

A Count. Account. Counter.

I’m
mapping
all the words
for what I’ll say
twenty years from now.
I consider their shapes,
their volume, their urgency,
even the nearly hidden space
in each letter, known as the counter.

(c)Mary Lee Hahn, draft 2025

Trauma

 

Wind Power

 

Bioenergy

 

Identity

 

Pollution

 

Historically

 

Definition

 

DEI

 

Equity

 

Barrier

 

Autism

 

Accessible

 

Victim: BRING ABREGO GARCIA HOME

 

Measles

 

Activism

 

Minority

 

Belong

 

Female

 

Promote

 

Identity

 

Elderly

 

Hate

 

Gay

 

Pronouns

 

Community

 

Activism

 

Biases

 

This poem is a Shadorma, a Spanish 6-line syllabic poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllable lines respectively. So today's poem, "Biases," is a Shadorm-acrostic!

Transgender

 

Climate Crisis

 

Diversity

 

Clark Kent Writes Back

 

It’s time again for the Poetry Sisters’ Challenge! Here’s the scoop, via Tanita’s blog: “We’re writing back to four Lucille Clifton poems, in her notes to clark kent series: “if i should;” “further note to clark;” “final note to clark;” and “note passed to superman.” We’ll be ‘in conversation’ with Ms. Lucille’s poems – talking to them, talking back to them, or talking about them, whether that’s all of them, or any of them, either in form or in substance.”

I think these responses work without reading Lucille’s poems, but just in case, take a minute to read what she said to Clark before you read what Clark wrote back.