#73- usurper

spent spring roses fade

honeysuckle bursts on scene

fragrant usurper

photo by Mary Rizzo

photo by Mary Rizzo

29 Comments

Filed under haiku, poetry

#72 -bosses

a cog in the wheel

meant to feel less than myself

autonomy lost

photo by Nedra Isenberg

9 Comments

Filed under haiku

#71 ~Thoughts about freedom and job loss

Dreamt about a bird

Moving from small cage to big

I think I’m the bird

Photo by Robin Montgomery

12 Comments

Filed under haiku

#70 – bombers

high diving osprey

five o’clock witching hour

submerge for fat fish

Photo by Margaret Scaglione

Leave a comment

Filed under haiku, micropoetry, poetry

#69~roses

benign rambler

simple beauty turned ugly

invasive climber

Leave a comment

Filed under haiku, micropoetry, poetry

#68- famous summer haiku

The night was hot

Stripped to the waist the snail

Enjoyed the moonlight

Issa

Summer~night insects

Falling burnt and dead …upon

My poem’s paper

Shiki

1 Comment

Filed under famous, haiku, micropoetry, poetry

#1~ My Beau Beau boy

young tenderhearted

Beau, give us kisses on eyes

cutey pie Beau Beau

my 7 year old’s first published haiku

2 Comments

Filed under haiku

#67~terrorist

slithering garter snake

hides in the honeysuckle

suburban terror

photo by Judy Hagemann

10 Comments

Filed under haiku, poetry

#66~freedom

like a fragrant bloom

freedom wafts across June air

summer is coming

Leave a comment

Filed under haiku

#65 ~attack

screaming mother bird

sees me as the enemy

protecting baby

flightless fledgling hops in yard

mother dive bombs near my head

Leave a comment

Filed under tanka