spent spring roses fade
honeysuckle bursts on scene
fragrant usurper

photo by Mary Rizzo
spent spring roses fade
honeysuckle bursts on scene
fragrant usurper

photo by Mary Rizzo
a cog in the wheel
meant to feel less than myself
autonomy lost

photo by Nedra Isenberg
Filed under haiku
Filed under haiku
high diving osprey
five o’clock witching hour
submerge for fat fish

Photo by Margaret Scaglione
Filed under haiku, micropoetry, poetry
Filed under haiku, micropoetry, poetry
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
Filed under famous, haiku, micropoetry, poetry
young tenderhearted
Beau, give us kisses on eyes
cutey pie Beau Beau
my 7 year old’s first published haiku
Filed under haiku
slithering garter snake
hides in the honeysuckle
suburban terror

photo by Judy Hagemann
screaming mother bird
sees me as the enemy
protecting baby
flightless fledgling hops in yard
mother dive bombs near my head
Filed under tanka