Haiku for every day of April 2023

Haiku for every day of April 2023

 April 1

Marg’ret loves this day

But are any foolers left?

Grandma Dot was one

 

April 2

Anytime, … where – in

The great eternal movie

We say YES with joy

 

April 3

Hundred year old day

Jack, Aly and now Miles

Canes, crutches and beards

 

April 4

Zoom meeting with friends

Share stories of Holy Week

Glad to pray today

 

April 5

Chess club! Miles can

Play his friends and older kids

Yeah! He wins some games

 

April 6

Andi’s birthday day

All six of us together

First party this week

 

April 7

Sleepover – the boys

Watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Till they got too scared (?)

 

April 8

They slept in the tent

Till 5:30 – what the heck?

Breakfast before dawn

 

April 9

Easter story of

The second fire – Jesus

Loves Peter back home (John 21)

 

April 10

Some days are like this

Jasper won’t let go of Mom

Cries for a long time

 

April 11

Diabetic eyes

Look good. My newly cleaned teeth?

Zero cavities

 

April 12

Jasper and Grandpa

Drive to dump, eating sugar

And keeping secrets

 

April 13

Game night at Ices

Marg taught them all to play Spoons

Ray’s Hawaiian nuts

 

April 14 (really Sat 15th)

Casey – Taco Bell

Here in Tyler submarine

Mom, Dad, Skunk, Badger (book by Amy Timberlake)

 

April 15

Little Rock deluge

Freeways – safe until they aren’t

Endless – grip the wheel!

 

April 16

Woke to Joplin dawn

Sunshine for the last leg home

No hail marks on car 

 

April 17

Monday at 7

Rons for oil, rear brake pads

By Sam and Cujo (Sam’s dog)

 

April 18

So many good friends

People need You, this I know

Let us pray, trust, rest

 

April 19

Our freezer’s dying?

Plus the furnace needs some work

Marc’s been our hero

 

April 20

Jim, Mary, Amy …

Take Jack, Aly for their drives

Mimosa, Macy

 

April 21

What doesn’t Jack know?

Scholastic Bowl – so much fun

Watch the good brains run

 

April 22

Sailing through Ozarks

Missouri’s tabernacle

Those lakes, hills, green trees

 

April 23

Siloam Springs blue skies

Heart and hands, Christ above all

Lizzie’s college life

 

April 24

Dr. Deem called me

Aortal valve stenosis

Severe – so what’s next?

 

April 25

Furnace blower fixed

Freezer officially dead,

New lawn mower

 

April 26

Jasper has questions:

What is an outing, Grandpa?

T J Maxx! For toys!

 

April 27

In our lives there are

Many doctors, they choose life

We must choose life too

 

April 28

Liu, Deem, Mustafa,

Chang … read tests, give us the news

Help us if they can

 

April 29

Wedding bells ringing

George and Anne and all their friends

Come to send them off!

 

April 30

we end this month with

coughs, Lasix … waiting not just

for Spring, but our health

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