Messages to Lelia: Haiku, Short Poems, and Longer Poems
A book of haiku and other poems by a noted Mid-South poet based in Memphis, Tennessee. His poetry springs from wide-ranging experience connected with his family history and with local Southern cultures in Mississippi and West Tennessee. His poetry sparkles with life, deep-rooted as it is in the soil of the Mid-South.
“Billy Reed is a salty saint, sprinkling light on dark paths in a laser-speared poetry that invites us all to dance, laugh, and pray. It will bless you if you let it.” -John Kilzer, Ph.D.
Messages to Lelia: Haiku, Short Poems, and Longer Poems
A book of haiku and other poems by a noted Mid-South poet based in Memphis, Tennessee. His poetry springs from wide-ranging experience connected with his family history and with local Southern cultures in Mississippi and West Tennessee. His poetry sparkles with life, deep-rooted as it is in the soil of the Mid-South.
“Billy Reed is a salty saint, sprinkling light on dark paths in a laser-speared poetry that invites us all to dance, laugh, and pray. It will bless you if you let it.” -John Kilzer, Ph.D.
Haiku & Short Poems
Long Poems
About Billy Reed
Some thoughts of thanks…
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I walk the woods with daddy, holding baskets of fallen figs; gathered from the ground.
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Thanks also for a thin tanned lady; and small girls who seek to ascend her garden’s gate. for a brown faced boy soon to travel alone
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Thanks again for breeze stirred ginkgo leaves adrift in silence to the sunlit sidewalk; and for a yellow lawn. for twin cousins
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Thanks also for familiar faces, for boys continually resembling uncle rex; who these seventy three years has remained in France;
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Thanks also for children sounds singing in laughter somewhere unseen. for an injured neighbor able to listen
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I walk the woods with daddy, holding baskets of fallen figs; gathered from the ground.
-
Thanks also for a thin tanned lady; and small girls who seek to ascend her garden’s gate. for a brown faced boy soon to travel alone
-
Thanks again for breeze stirred ginkgo leaves adrift in silence to the sunlit sidewalk; and for a yellow lawn. for twin cousins
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Thanks also for familiar faces, for boys continually resembling uncle rex; who these seventy three years has remained in France;
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Thanks also for children sounds singing in laughter somewhere unseen. for an injured neighbor able to listen
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