Joan Leotta is a poet, playwright, author and story performer who lives in Calabash , NC. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry and Prose Postcards, North Carolina's Pinesong, Whispers, Visual Verse, and the Ekphrastic review. Her newest blog entries reveal what editors of short story magazines want writers to know at www.joanleotta.wordpress.com. Her chapbook, Languid Lusciousness with Lemon, was described in the December 2017 issue of Indiana Voice Journal.
Monet’s Hens
Light on the Seine
Sunlight played on river
Seine’s ripples as Monet
revealed their secrets
Joan Leotta
You can download a mini-chapbook of her poems at:
https://www.origamipoems.com/files/Books%20/2016/Joan_Leotta_-_Dancing_Under_The_Moon_2016R.pdf.
https://www.origamipoems.com/files/Books%20/2016/Joan_Leotta_-_Dancing_Under_The_Moon_2016R.pdf.
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Monet’s Hens
Pecking about the paint box garden
Rosy red hens stand out among the
Whites and yellows,
Hide themselves amid the
Sturdy reds, violets,
Waiting for Monet to open the
gate to follow him across the road
to the water garden where they
can feast upon new varieties
of six-legged prey, clucking
among themselves over
waterlily beauty as they strut
across the green Japanese bridge—
until Monet chases them back
to their house-side coop.
Sun's rays playing,
on Seine’s surface
delighted Monet’s eye,
unlocked the power of his brush,
to decipher, share light’s secrets.
Haiku on same theme
delighted Monet’s eye,
unlocked the power of his brush,
to decipher, share light’s secrets.
Haiku on same theme
Sunlight played on river
Seine’s ripples as Monet
revealed their secrets
Joan Leotta
