Three Poems by Joan Leotta: "Monet's Hens", "Light on the Seine" and "Haiku on the Same Theme"

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.

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.

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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.

Light on the Seine

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 

Sunlight played on river
Seine’s ripples as Monet
revealed their secrets 

Joan Leotta