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Bent birches bowing / bearing the brunt beneath / back-breaking burden. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
08 Mar

Bent birches bowing / bearing the brunt beneath / back-breaking burden.

Variations in a key of “B” alliterations: Twoku: Bent birches bowing / beneath back-breaking burden / of burgeoning snow. Threeku: Bent birches bowing / beneath back-breaking burden / bombogenesis. I…
2018/03/08 at 12:04 pm Leave a comment
14 Sep

Cicada buzzing / in circadian rhythm / his urgent swan song.

Twoku: Night’s lonely singer / September’s last cicada / his buzz-saw love song. — The Haikook —
2017/09/14 at 3:59 pm Leave a comment
Not to be outdone / the other side of the yard / is now in full bloom. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
11 Jun

Not to be outdone / the other side of the yard / is now in full bloom.

— the Haikook —
2017/06/11 at 4:46 pm Leave a comment
14 May

One day’s not enough / to celebrate all they’ve done / but it’s a good start.

Happy Mothers’ Day!! — the Haikook — Save
2017/05/14 at 6:35 pm Leave a comment
When he had the blues / he found solace in painting / now his palette's changed. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
13 May

When he had the blues / he found solace in painting / now his palette’s changed.

— the Haikook — Save
2017/05/13 at 10:58 am Leave a comment
Three dusty brushes / left by the happy artist / without need to paint. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
11 May

Three dusty brushes / left by the happy artist / without need to paint.

— the Haikook — Save
2017/05/11 at 6:16 pm Leave a comment
His soul looking down / saw the shell it left behind / finally empty. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
29 Jul

His soul looking down / saw the shell it left behind / finally empty.

My ex-father-in-law, my children’s other grandfather, has died. More accurately, the person, the man, the father, and grandfather we knew and loved, departed some time ago, and the shell he…
2016/07/29 at 5:22 pm Leave a comment
Plants wait for planting / watering can sits idle / in a cold Spring rain. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
06 May

Plants wait for planting / watering can sits idle / cold Spring rain falling.

2016/05/06 at 6:18 pm Leave a comment
NYT - Kabul Afghanistan - 4/19/2016
19 Apr

Unfortunately / so much death, that our heartbreak / is now commonplace.

I wrote this “extra” haiku (senryu, actually) among many written and posted when the last big terrorist mass murder was committed by ISIS. Today, sadly, there was a mass murder…
2016/04/19 at 10:41 am Leave a comment
Hatred, zealotry / provide new places daily / to send all our grief. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
27 Mar

Hatred, zealotry / provide new places daily / to send all our grief.

Today, we grieve for the victims of hate in Lahore, Pakistan. SOURCE: from the NYT article posted on 3/27/2016 at 12:31pm EDT. PHOTO CREDIT: Arif Ali/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
2016/03/27 at 1:49 pm Leave a comment
The morning paper / unread as eyelids protest / returning to sleep. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
27 Mar

The morning paper / unread as eyelids protest / returning to sleep.

2016/03/27 at 10:40 am Leave a comment
Mockingbird's author / the little Finch, died today / Watchman first and last. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
19 Feb

Tortured mockingbird / sang that one great song we loved / more than all others.

Twoku: Scout, the little Finch / your mockingbird has been killed / we still hear its song. Threeku: Mocking bird / Scout, the little Finch / died today.  (3-5-3) Fourku:…
2016/02/19 at 12:44 pm Leave a comment