Category: Morning

• Birds Earth Grass Morning Prairie Rain Sunrise

  An Early Summer
  Dawn After a Rainy Night
  Sun and Mist Rising
  
  Birds Trill and Frogs Sing
  Twined with Incense of Moist Earth,
  New Prairie Grasses
  
  Yes, This Day Begins
  Blessed with Sensual Gifts Wrapped in
  Floating Mystery
  

  June 5, 2025
• Morning Rural

  Still Prairie Mornings
  Restore Me From the Illness
  That is Time and Space

  March 29, 2024
• Morning Snow Sun Wind winter

  In the Morning Sun Drifts Marking Last Night’s Winds Like Footprints in the Snow

  February 4, 2023
• Fog Haiku’d Photographs landscape Morning Sunrise With Michele Gast

  
  The Valleys Slumber
  While Hilltops Rise Above
  To Greet the Morning

  August 9, 2021
• Color Earth LIght Morning Rain Spring Sun

  
  

  Standing on a Hill
  A Sunny Spring Morning After
  A Nighttime Rainfall
  
  To the Horizon
  All is Blue and Green and Light
  Clear Edges, New Growth
  
  Drawn in Memory
  In History Yet to Be
  With Hope and Longing

  May 8, 2021
• Mist Morning Rural Shadow

  
  This Summer Morning
  Mist Floats In Shadows on the
  Corn, Whispering Fall

  August 1, 2018
• Earth Morning Sky Spring

  
  A Morning Mist Floats
  Among the Trees A Sacred
  Text of Earth and Sky

  April 20, 2018
• Clouds Morning winter

  
  This Winter Morning
  The Sun Rises Through Pale Clouds
  A Gentle Promise

  March 7, 2018
• Clouds Morning Sky Sunrise winter

  
  And Just Before Dawn
  Palest Coral, Soft Blue Grey
  Frozen in the Sky

  January 11, 2018
• Autumn Fog Moon Morning Sun

  
  A Rising Sun Shines
  Through the Mist Like a Full Moon
  This Cool Fall Morning

  September 14, 2017
• LIght Morning sunlight winter

  
  A Winter’s Pleasure
  Sun Flares Burn Like Torches in
  Frozen Morning Skies

  January 7, 2017
• Autumn Morning Sunrise Trees Wind

  
  The Hour Before Dawn,
  Cool Breezes Announce Fall in
  Leaves I Cannot See

  September 26, 2016
• Autumn Birds Moon Morning Summer

  
  When Did Summer End?
  One Cool Morning? One Full Moon?
  When the Swallows Left?

  September 12, 2016
• Autumn dreams Fog Morning

  
  At this time of Year,
  Latest August, Just Before
  Dawn, The Mist Rises

  You Can Almost See
  Color Above the Marshes,
  In the Trees, The Sky

  You Can Almost See,
  As the Earth Cools, The Colors
  Of our Rising Dreams

  August 29, 2016
• Autumn Clouds Morning Summer Trees Wind

  
  And Just When You Thought
  Nothing Would Ever Change A
  Mid-August Morning
   
  An August Morning
  Of Cooling Breezes, High Clouds,
  Hints of Rolling Time.
   
  Rolling Time and Distance,
  Of Journey and Return, Of
  Effort and of Rest

  August 8, 2016
• Clouds Fog LIght Morning Tri-ku

  
  Molten Sunrise Clouds
  Flowing Inexorably
  North Above the Mist

  Street Signs Shining
  Like Beacons for Navigating
  Ambiguous Shores

  Calling Out to Us
  To Journey, To Set Out, Not
  Knowing Where we Go

  July 12, 2016
• Birds Morning Music Trees

  
  Birches Silvering
  Their Leaves in a Morning Breeze
  With a Robin’s Song

  July 10, 2016
• Morning Wind

  
  This Quiet Morning
  I Hear the Earth Breathing in
  The Sighs of Dried Leaves

  February 26, 2016
• Clouds Memories Morning Sky Sunrise

  
  Smokey Coral Clouds
  Laddered Across Turquoise Skies
  At Memory’s Edge

  January 13, 2016
• Autumn dreams Family History Home Love Memories Morning

  Five A.M. Baking,
  Bread and Rolls, Like my Father
  When I Was a Boy

  The House is Asleep,
  Now as Then, The Dreams Scented
  With Warm Cinnamon

  The Kitchen is Ruled
  By Wooden Spoons and Wire Wisks
  And Long Memory

  November 26, 2015
• Autumn Family LIght Love Morning Sunrise

  At the End of That
  Long, Softly Lit Hallway, A
  Tall Westward Window

  Dawn, Painted Across
  The Skies and Trees and Fields
  In Blues and Coral

  Our Worlds, Separate
  Yet Together, Start Again
  And I Breathe Deeply

  November 25, 2015
• Love Morning

  This Morning, Every
  Day, All the Time, Like a Pulse,
  Life in Thoughts of You

  November 17, 2015
• Autumn Clouds dreams Home Love Morning Sky

  There’s Venus Rising
  Above Our Neighbor’s Roofline
  Just Before the Dawn

  And Clouds Outlined in
  Colors too Passionate to
  Be Called Apricot

  And You Still Abed
  And Me, Driving East, Dreaming
  Of Home and Day’s End

  November 12, 2015
• Autumn Fog History Memories Morning

  Boston and All That
  History, Mine and Others,
  Condenses to Fog

  November 10, 2015
• Autumn Morning Rural Sunrise

  Sunrise on the Frost
  Ignores Modern Cynics to
  Paint the Fields Golden

  October 14, 2015
• Autumn Birds LIght Morning Sunrise

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

  September 30, 2015
• Love Memories Morning

  This Monday Morning
  My Car, Your Sandy Footprint
  And I am Content

  September 28, 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
• dreams Flowers Morning Rain Spring

  Late May, Sleeping In
  To the Dappled Sound of Rain
  And Flowers Growing
  

  May 17, 2015
• Clouds Fog Morning Snow winter

  
  Another Winter’s Dawn
  Drawn in Symphonies of Gray
  And Played in Silence
  

  January 3, 2015
• Fog History Morning Snow Spiritual Trees Tri-ku

  A Morning Fog Floats,
  Quiet as a Silent Prayer,
  Into the Tree Tops

  A Fog That Softens
  All Sight and Sound and Maybe
  All We Think We Know

  Snowflakes Drifting Down,
  Gently as Forgiveness, to
  Shroud Every Sharp Edge.

  November 26, 2014
• Architecture Morning Sky Spring Sunrise winter

  
  A Frozen Sunrise
  Whispers Springtime in Pastel
  Light on Roofs and Sky
  

  February 22, 2014
• Cats Morning

  
  I Have a Valet.
  He Attends Me Each Morning
  He’s a Big Red Cat.
  

  October 15, 2013
• Architecture Food LIght Morning Spiritual Tri-ku

  
  The Short Order Cook,
  On Break, Sits by a Window,
  Stares, Rubbing His Jaw

  Morning Sunlight Falls
  In A Single Bright Shaft and
  His Stained Chef’s Whites Glow

  A Small Sacrament
  As If This Light Had Escaped
  From Some Cathedral

  August 23, 2013
• Morning sunlight Trees

  
  Pulling Back the Drapes
  I Found the Sunlight Shattering
  Against All the Leaves
  

  August 9, 2013
• Morning Night Rain Wind

  
  A Night’s Rain and Wind
  Polishes the Shadows Cast
  By Morning Sunshine
  

  June 15, 2013
• Architecture Morning sunlight

  
  Where the Curtains End
  The Geometry of Light
  Shows a Building’s Edge
  

  June 11, 2013
• Birds Frustrations Morning Snow Sun winter

  
  January Thaw
  Fog Mutes Calling Birds, Pale Sun
  I’m Left Wanting More
  

  January 9, 2013
• Autumn Morning Trees

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

  August 20, 2012
• Clouds Moon Morning Spring

  
  I’m trying to read
  A half moon and horizon
  Fogged in Apricot
  

  March 15, 2012
• Birds Morning Water winter

  
  Frozen Lake Echoes
  Winter Sunrise and Calling
  Crows On the Wing
  

  January 3, 2012
• Morning Sunrise winter

  
  Winter’s First Sunrise
  Across the Frosted Rooftops
  Brushed with Apricot
  

  December 1, 2011
• Morning Sunrise winter

  
  Frozen to the Bone
  Sunrise Still Paints House Fronts in
  Warmest Apricot
  

  December 14, 2010
• Flowers Morning sunlight

  
  
  Worshipping sunlight
  On luminous green blossoms
  Two blocks from my house
  

  September 12, 2010
• Animals Morning

  
  Squirrels skittering
  The day awake in the trees
  Outside my window
  

  August 1, 2010
• Birds Morning Spring

  
  Alfalfa first cut
  Perfumes the late spring morning
  Redwing blackbird trills
  

  May 20, 2010
• Clouds Morning Spring Storms

  
  All Spring’s colors mute
  Beneath a grey morning sky
  of the coming storm
  

  April 30, 2010