parting my breath / so cold (haiku)
. while parting my breath how heavy the trunks seem on a winter’s night (1) * so cold – Continue reading →
View Articlefirst seed catalog (haiku / haiga)
◊ Linked to Carpe Diem #655: First Calligraphy (Kakizome). (For what it’s worth, I think “first seed catalog” should be Continue reading →
View Articlein the thicket (haiku)
◊ in the thicket what do chipmunks dream while vacationing? ◊ Linked to Carpe Diem #659: Yabu-iri (Servant’s Day). Yabu-iri Continue reading →
View Articlebrown chrysanthemums (haiku)
brown chrysanthemums encased in winter’s first ice – my tears can’t free them ◊ Linked to Carpe Diem Little Creatures Continue reading →
View Articledistant wind chime (haiku)
◊ distant wind chime – dividing this winter night into halves ◊ ◊ There is a wind chime down the Continue reading →
View Articlesplintered thorn (haiku)
splintered thorn – even the rose must bow to winter ◊ Linked to the Just for Fun Poetry Challenge at Continue reading →
View Articlesomewhere (tanka)
* somewhere under the ice shelf – echoes . winter’s curtain is closing – what a performance! * ◊ Continue reading →
View Articleice-bound meadow (haiga)
◊ ice-bound meadow – ribby deer flank to flank to flank ◊ ◊ Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Meadow ←◊→ Tagged: Continue reading →
View Articleovernight (tanka – haiga)
◊ overnight spring’s purple spears bristle . winter wheezes and slinks away ◊ Carpe Diem Haiku Kai: Magnolias A tanka Continue reading →
View Articlehow soft underfoot (haiku)
◊ Linked to Carpe Diem #691: Witch Hazel. This is a small bush or tree that lives in damp forest Continue reading →
View Articlewinter begs of spring (haiga)
◊ ◊ For Heeding Haiku with HA: Spring ◊ ◊ Winter begs of Spring: just one more poem! … and Continue reading →
View Articletut-tut / it’s spring (haiga)
◊ ◊ ◊ Linked to Carpe Diem #695, where “Fashionista” was our prompt. The first haiku seems to be the Continue reading →
View Articlein apology (haiga)
◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ Yes, Willie Nelson is one of my guilty pleasures. No, Mother Nature doesn’t apologize for nuthin’. Continue reading →
View Articleragged edges
ragged edges around my green heart – i am summer grass perched at autumn’s edge measuring the sun Continue reading →
View Articlegray to white
gray to white these winter fields – my Rosebud slips away in opium dreams Carpe Diem Fields Continue reading →
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