woodpecker’s tattoo
in leafless December woods
echoes same silence
Grandfather once here knew
Tag Archives: haiku
Haiku #52 Stopping
up against a wall
discovering stopping
as next way forward
Haibun #1
On arriving at our new property the first time alone after purchase, after parking the car we look up to see on the hillside across from ours in the narrow valley are two lines of congregants all dressed in white and chanting. Apparently this ritual takes place every Sunday. At first we were disappointed; laterContinue reading “Haibun #1”
India!
The British Raj
The Taj Mahal
Who is ruling whom?
Pandemia Haiku #41-51
when most of us are gone
who will be left
to read these haiku?!
Flu Haikus #29-34
picture perfect day
doesn’t fool me at all:
flu again!
Haiku #32 Amber Kingdom
amber winged glory
monarch in kingdom of colour
pointedly gazing
The Spirits live on…
ancestor shaman-brujo-bards
still casting spells
as sky-dancing cloud dragons
Ekphrastics via Gabriel Rosenstock
I speak
in wordless living language
read my vowels and consonants….
Haiku 5-7-5 Exercise
We come and we go
Stopping and starting like thieves
Caught by their mothers