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06 May

Certain chords, notes, tones / in concert with each other / release our feelings.

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2021/05/06 at 7:26 pm Leave a comment
Bee’s bumbling ballet / buzzing, bumping blossoms with / beautiful purpose. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
02 May

Bee’s bumbling ballet / buzzing, bumping blossoms with / beautiful purpose.

Twoku: Aerial ballet / a bumbling, buzzing, bumping / dance with each blossom. // haikumages
2021/05/02 at 9:39 pm Leave a comment
The old mill's windows / overlook the waterfall / that once moved millstones. // haiku - micropoetry
10 Jan

The old mill’s windows / overlook the waterfall / which once moved millstones.

Here’s the full prose-text I wrote about these images, which I then distilled down to 17 syllables: “Windows of the old mill-turned-inn, overlooking the waterfall and rushing stream (small river?)…
2021/01/10 at 5:42 pm Leave a comment
In a time of masks / our eyes start speaking before / our muffled voices. // haikumages - haiku - micropoetry
31 Dec

In a time of masks / eyes begin speaking before / our muffled voices.

Twoku: In a time of masks / our eyes start to speak before / our muffled mouths do. Threeku: With voices muffled / our eyes communicate first / in a…
2020/12/31 at 9:25 am Leave a comment
Live long and prosper / the Vulcan greeting makes sense / touching not required. // haikumages - haiku - micropoetry
30 Dec

Live long and prosper / the Vulcan greeting makes sense / touching not required.

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2020/12/30 at 8:23 am Leave a comment
The winter blossoms / unexpected tumbleweeds / gather in our yard. // haikumages - haiku - poem
29 Dec

The winter blossoms / unexpected tumbleweeds / gather in the yard.

Twoku: Hydrangea blossoms / unexpected tumbleweeds / blow in from next door. // haikumages
2020/12/29 at 2:56 pm Leave a comment
Impossibly cool / person’s street-worn, storied shoes / in need of repair. // haiku - micropoetry - senryu
26 Jul

Storied shoes of an / impossibly cool person / in need of repair.

These epic platform shoes of a loved one have worked hard, walked well, and wandered far, performed, protected, and protested, before and during the pandemic. Now they need a little…
2020/07/26 at 5:12 pm Leave a comment
Namaste away! / I see the light within you / from a safe distance. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
23 Apr

Namaste away! / I see the light within you / from a safe distance.

Twoku: Pandemic greeting / namaste right where you are! / No more handshaking. Threeku: Personal spacing / namaste away from me! / Pandemic greeting. Fourku: Namaste away! / Respect the…
2020/04/23 at 12:31 pm Leave a comment
Telephoto lens / pandemic photographers / social distancing. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
25 Mar

Telephoto lens / pandemic photographers / social distancing.

Twoku: Telephoto lens / enjoying from a distance / social compliance. Threeku: Telephoto lens / the perfect tool enabling / social distancing. Stay safe, sane, happy, and healthy out there!…
2020/03/25 at 1:50 pm Leave a comment
17 Mar

Viral reminder / my calendar is empty / no events today.

So, the world is in quarantine — self-imposed, or otherwise — with everyone struggling to work-from-home, many at half or no-pay. Or they are trying to work and shop safely…
2020/03/17 at 1:08 pm Leave a comment
Heavy falling snow / a soft white noise percussion / on trees, ground and things. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
18 Jan

Heavy falling snow / a soft white noise percussion / on trees, grass and ground.

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2020/01/18 at 11:21 pm Leave a comment
Sun glowing, diffused / peering through gathering clouds / before the snowstorm. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
18 Jan

Sun glowing, diffused / peering through gathering clouds / before the snowstorm.

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2020/01/18 at 10:59 pm Leave a comment
Unfavored by fate / the recalcitrant raccoon / who walked the wrong way. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
25 Oct

Unfavored by fate / the recalcitrant raccoon / who walked the wrong way.

Twoku: Not favored by fate / the recalcitrant raccoon / walking the wrong way. — the Haikook —
2019/10/25 at 1:31 pm Leave a comment
Two old cameras / lovingly manufactured / the same year I was. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
12 Oct

Two old cameras / lovingly manufactured / the same year I was.

Twoku: Cameras / manufacture date / same as mine. (3-5-3) Um…and that year of manufacture would be 1961. — the Haikook —
2019/10/12 at 4:38 pm Leave a comment
25 Sep

The autumn spiders / setting traps for smaller prey / entangle humans.

Twoku: The autumn spider / set a trap for smaller prey / but caught a human. — the Haikook —
2019/09/25 at 8:22 pm Leave a comment
02 Sep

A dead friend’s birthday / my phone keeps reminding me / ghost in the machine.

Twoku: Ghosts in the machine / my phone keeps reminding me / birthdays of the dead. Threeku: Despite all my deletions / ghosts in machine remind me / of dead…
2019/09/02 at 9:49 pm Leave a comment
In garden and life / I've learned we must be weeding / continually. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
15 Jul

In garden and life / we must be pruning, weeding / continually.

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2018/07/15 at 11:35 pm 3 Comments
A perimeter stain / where some thing was painted pink / then quickly removed. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
14 Jun

A perimeter stain / where something was painted pink / then quickly removed.

— the Haikook —
2018/06/14 at 6:16 pm Leave a comment