My Poetry: Small Wonders

New Release – June 2023

Small Wonders on a digital device
Book Cover: Butterfly on a purple bell flower
Text: Small Wonders, Reflective Poems, Kaye Lynne Booth

Whether chasing moles in the garden or fantasizing about the life of a cat, Kaye Booth’s poems find playfulness, humor, levity, and often beauty. Small Wonders is a delightful compendium of poetic forms—from pantoums to Shadormas. Each poem is an invitation to see the world with new eyes.

—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, author of All the Honey and Hush

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The Poems

Painting of two nude dancers wearing only tights. She is sitting in his arm and they both are throwing off their harliquin masks with their free arms. The words of the poem Intimacy and the Harliquin Dance painted on the background surrounding them.

Painting: Intimacy, by Mitch Barrett

Poetry: Intimacy and the Harlequin Dance

by Kaye Lynne Booth

Displayed in 2010 at Kaleidoscope Gallery

in Battle Sea Park, London

Intimacy and the Harlequin Dance

We dance through the masquerade of life

Disguised to fit the music

Of so many different melodies

That at times, we forget which tune

Holds the heartstrings of who we really are.

Then one day, we find the perfect dance partner.

But to attain the perfect rhythm

We must open ourselves up and reveal our souls.

Intimacy requires that we relinquish the mask

To expose the genuine self that lies beneath.

After all the years of dancing to false tunes

Will we be able to keep time

To the genuine dance and the original rhyme?

Or shall we don the mask once more and continue to

Keep time to the false melody of the Harlequin dance?

To Be A Cat

A large white tiger lying on grass with dialog bubble: “Purr-fect Poetry” in background. Small Wonders on digital device in foreground. Text: Small Wonders and the first two stanzas of “To Be A Cat”.

A Prayer For Guidance

First published in Dusk & Dawn Magazine 1996

Aspen Tree

(Minimalist Poem)

First published in Colorado Life Magazine (September/October 2016)

An aspen tree with yellow and green leaves of early fall in background with the words to "Aspen Tree" in the foreground.
Text: Aspen Tree by Kaye Lynne Booth - Dark eyes staring out of white bark, Scantily clad by quivering green leaves, Turning waxy yellow in fall,Stark and exposed in winter

Looking up into a cloudy sky through the branches of an aspen tree, leaves tinted pink by the sun in background with Small Wonders on a digtal device, the words Small Wonders and a text box with the words to “Aspen Tree” in foreground.

Yucca! Yucca! Yucca!

First published in Manifest West #5: Serenity and Severity, Literary Anthology by Western Press Books (2016).

They spatter the open mountain meadows

Like snow white spears reaching up

Above the tall grasses

Worshiping the sun.

Soft white flower spikes

Contrasting razor sharp spines.

The porcupines of the plant world.

Waiting, waiting for autumn winds

To dry their flower stalks into husks

That whisper the rattle of their name

Bird Watching – Acrostic Poem

A blue heron and a digital copy of Small Wonders on a rock with pine trees in the background. Text: Small Wonders and the words to “Bird Watching”.

Sun and Shade

First published in Colorado Life Magazine (July/August 2018)

Wildflowers spray bright

Splashes of colors

In a sea of brilliant greens.

At the pump, my arm pistons the handle

Up and down until it

Spews forth its cool, fresh water.

A bouquet of butterflies

In orange, yellow and blue fill the air

With their brilliantly fluttering petals.

A woodpecker appears

From an unseen hole

And takes flight.

At the bridge, the river’s roar

Fills the air, moisture glistening from

The delicate strands of an intricate spider’s web.

The sweet coolness of

The shade is refreshing to

My sweat-drenched skin.

Here the sun is only seen in patches

That the canopy of trees

Allow to penetrate these depths.

Rocks are carpeted

With grays, browns and oranges of rough lichens

And greens of soft mosses.

I recline in the

Soft, cool grass

Listening to the distant water.

A spider dropping from a tree

On its silky thin thread startles me,

Reminding me that it’s time to go.

Haiga Poem

Bright yellow sunflower against a wooden fence in background with Small Wonders on a digital device in the foreground. Text: Small Wonders and the words to the Haiga poem.

Tanka Poem

Koi fish swining in a pond with a bushy overhang in background with Small Wonders on a digital device in foreground. Text: Small Wonders and words of Tanka poem.