wresting worms from dirt
wriggling prize caught, robins flee
escape into trees
Photo by Steve Lau
Tag Archives: haiku
#208 – practice
young sparrows practice
garden fence to azalea
testing young weak wings
photo be Kathryn Hedges
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#207 – beauty
late summer garden
morning glory’s first bright bloom
reflecting blue sky
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#206 – Perseid meteor shower
waiting in pitch dark
Perseid meteor show
humbled by mere stars
2010 Perseid Meteor show courtesy of NASA/JPL
http://news.yahoo.com/perseid-meteor-shower-light-show-peaks-tonight-120401283.html
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#205 – outside
outside in darkness
hear only bugs, frogs, highway
camera just sees black
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#204- tranquil, famous haiku
There is something about haiku classics that is incredibly placid that I struggle to replicate. I think it is essential in our knock down warp speed world to step back and appreciate the small things and to be observant. This is what haiku does for me – I hope you enjoy the following
Women planting rice
ugly every bit about them
but their ancient song
– Raizan
For a lovely bowl
Let us arrange these flowers…
Since there is no rice
– Basho
Deep in dark forest
A woodcutter’s dull axe talking…
And a woodcutter
– Buson
#202 -path
shuffling bare feet tread
back and forth to the ocean
a path worn in the sand
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#201 – anigh
sun blazes all day
August breezes halt heat wave
cool fall is anigh
Filed under haiku, micropoetry, poetry
#200 stygian night
thunder storms move close
Stygian night sky opened
at home safe indoors
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