Category: Autumn

• Autumn Birds LIght Morning Sunrise

  The Day Opens Up
  Like Sunrise Beneath the Wings
  Of a Sandhill Crane

  September 30, 2015
• Autumn Cats Morning Sky Travel

  An Autumn Morning
  Sky Suggests Travel, But Cats
  Wind Around My Legs

  September 26, 2015
• Autumn Clouds LIght Morning

  An Autumn Morning
  Courts the Clouds With a Brushing
  Touch of Lightest Gold

  September 17, 2015
• Autumn Clouds LIght Morning Summer Sun Tri-ku

  Orange Sun Rising
  Through a Floating Summer Haze
  High Clouds Whisper Fall

  Something Beginning
  Or Ending Or Maybe Both
  But Always Longing

  And Only Blues on
  The Radio, or That’s Just
  All I Care to Hear

  September 2, 2015
• Autumn Fog Morning Summer

  One Summer Morning
  Fog at the Tree Line, The Earth
  Breathing, Thinking, “Fall”

  August 26, 2015
• Autumn History Trees

  
  After the Leaves Fall
  Bare Trees Remain, A kind of
  Standing History
  

  November 11, 2014
• Autumn Food Garden Snow Trees

  
  Fall Seemed Late This Year
  But Still, Harvest’s In, Leaves Raked
  Before the First Snow
  

  November 1, 2014
• Autumn Snow Trees

  
  First Snow and Last Leaves
  Rattle on Nearly Bare Limbs
  Above Frozen Lawns
  

  October 31, 2014
• Autumn Trees Tri-ku

  
  Yesterday’s Maples
  Were Infused Top to Bottom
  In Every Color

  Today’s Lawns Hold Half
  That Bounty in Pools Like an
  Impressionist’s Dream

  Tomorrow’s Landscape
  Distills all that Hued Movement
  Into Black and White
  

  October 16, 2014
• Autumn Birds Fog Trees

  
  Morning Mist, No Breeze,
  The Sound of a Leaf Falling,
  Cries of Unseen Geese
  

  September 23, 2014
• Autumn Clouds Summer

  
  Just After Summer
  Before We Knew it was Fall
  Horse Tail Clouds and Fog
  

  September 15, 2014
• Autumn Clouds

  
  A Few Rose Hued Clouds
  Mirrored by a Scattering
  Of Frost on Red Roofs
  

  October 23, 2013
• Autumn Clouds Grass Sunrise Trees

  
  Sunrise Drips Autumn
  Down From Clouds To Treetops and
  Across Frosted Lawns
  

  October 22, 2013
• Autumn Love Rural

  
  Sunshine Breaking Through
  At Day’s End Casts Flannel Light
  On Umber Fields
  

  October 21, 2013
• Autumn LIght Trees

  
  First Light and Golden
  Shadows in Tree Tops, Above
  Rising Mist and Frost
  

  October 14, 2013
• Autumn Love Trees Wind

  
  Of This Golden Day
  I’ll Recall the Painted Leaves
  The Silk Breeze and You
  

  October 11, 2013
• Autumn Night Sky Spiritual Tri-ku

  Summer Labors End
  The Sublime He Sets aside
  Godly World Making
  
  And the Divine They
  Seeing That it Is Good They
  Sigh a Divine Breeze
  
  And Sing Her Delight
  In Blue Skies and Brightest Leaves,
  Cool Nights and Warm Days
  

  October 5, 2013
• Autumn Trees

  
  All of a Sudden
  Locust Trees Shouting Fall in
  Yellow Confetti
  

  October 1, 2013
• Autumn Haiku’d Photographs Music Spiritual

  
  Rough Cutting Art Mats
  The Knife’s Rasping Call Scores My
  Heart Like Monks Chanting
  

  November 29, 2012
• Autumn History Home sunlight

  
  A November Sun
  Paints My Street the Color of
  Faded History
  

  November 21, 2012
• Autumn Clouds Sunrise Trees

  
  Against the Rising
  Sun, Bare Tree Limbs Beneath Clouds
  Hammered in Gold-leaf

  November 3, 2012
• Autumn

  
  Autumn’s Drama Makes
  It hard to Hold That It’s Just
  The Passage of Time
  

  October 19, 2012
• Autumn Death History Wind

  
  Past Peak, Crumbled Leaves
  Blow Across Brown Grass Mirroring
  All We’ve Lost or Held.
  

  October 15, 2012
• Autumn Rain Summer

  
  The Autumn Rains Fall
  With a Sound like Sighing and
  The End of Summer
  

  October 13, 2012
• Autumn Trees

  
  It was a Week of
  Leaves, Blazing, Falling, Scattered
  Beneath Mourning Trees
  

  October 5, 2012
• Autumn Trees

  
  Outside My Window
  Trees Celebrate the Season
  And Time’s Progression
  

  October 1, 2012
• Autumn Family Food Memories

  
  With Fall’s First Apples
  I Think of My Dad, a Fine
  Country Professor
  

  September 8, 2012
• Autumn Morning Trees

  
  Before the Leaves Turn
  Fall Calls in the Sunlight Seen
  Through a Morning Mist
  

  August 20, 2012
• Autumn Music Sky

  
  At last the maples
  Join the chorus of colors
  On a blue sky stage
  

  November 13, 2011
• Autumn Rural winter

  
  Just Harvested Fields
  Look Brushed, Curried and Ready
  For Winter Stable
  

  November 1, 2011
• Autumn Clouds Spiritual Trees Wind

  
  High Clouds, Leaves and Wind
  A Good Day For Writing Prayers
  On Burning Papers
  

  October 20, 2011
• Animals Autumn Haiku’d Photographs Water

  
  A Buffalo’s Gaze,
  Warming the Morning River
  As Autumn Comes On
  

  October 17, 2011
• Autumn Family Memories Spiritual

  
  Every Autumn I
  Sent Mom a bright leaf. Now She
  Rises On Their Hues
  

  October 15, 2011
• Autumn Spiritual

  
  Fall’s Sudden Color
  Answers the Unasked Questions
  Of Summer’s Languor
  

  September 30, 2011
• Autumn Clouds

  
  On July’s Last Day
  Fall’s High Horse Tail Clouds Stream South
  Like an Advanced Guard
  

  July 31, 2011
• Autumn Haiku’d Photographs Memories Summer

  
  A Pale Autumn Sun,
  Frosted Summer Memories
  On the Forest Floor
  

  November 29, 2010
• Autumn Friends Haiku’d Photographs Home

  
  College Ball, Home Game
  Celebrate Who We Are and
  Who We Might Become
  

  November 27, 2010
• Autumn Haiku’d Photographs Trees

  
  Japanese Maple
  Crimson Offering on Autumn’s
  Brief Golden Alter
  

  November 16, 2010
• Autumn Clouds Distance Water

  
  Autumn’s Symmetries
  With Local Skies Reflecting
  The Far Horizons
  

  November 14, 2010
• Autumn Sunrise Trees Water

  
  Frost on Grass and Leaves
  A Pond’s Mist Quietly Cleaved
  By Morning Rowboat
  

  October 23, 2010
• Autumn Death Family Night Trees

  Doris Glick 1923-2010

  
  An Autumn Sunset
  Shines Like Flames in the Tree Tops
  Above Fallen Leaves
  

  October 17, 2010
• Autumn Music Wind

  
  An Autumn Evening
  The breeze whispers lullabies
  Through the changing leaves
  

  September 4, 2010
• Autumn Clouds Sun

  
  Apricot horsetail
  Clouds sweep in this September’s
  First glorious sunset
  

  September 1, 2010
• Autumn Memories With Juliette Crane

  
  
  Memory colored
  Like ancient precious metals
  Reflects off the leaves
  

  January 22, 2010
• Autumn Moon Night Trees

  
  Paper white full moon
  Shadows me, veiled in wood smoke
  And leafless tree limbs
  

  December 1, 2009
• Autumn Birds Sky

  
  Late fall’s full palate
  Cardinals, jays, crows, red tailed hawks,
  Cold and clear, blue skies
  

  November 27, 2009
• Autumn Birds Moon Night With Juliette Crane

  
  Autumn moon reaching
  Crescent arms past Owl’s song to
  Solitary star
  

  November 23, 2009
• Autumn Rural Snow

  
  Golden fields fading
  To beige, patiently waiting
  For the first snow fall
  

  November 15, 2009
• Autumn Moon Night Trees

  
  Linen moon rising.
  Dead leaves beneath bare tree limbs,
  Spider web shadows
  

  November 7, 2009
• Autumn Motorcycle Trees

  
  Fallen leaves rising,
  Red, orange, yellow, like flames
  From beneath my wheels
  

  November 5, 2009