A Year in Haiku

October 15, 2012

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

Autumn, Death, History, Wind
October 13, 2012

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

Autumn, Rain, Summer
October 5, 2012

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

Autumn, Trees
October 1, 2012

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

Autumn, Trees
September 22, 2012

Among the Redwoods
The Sunshine Dapples Across
Time’s Melting Boundaries

History, Sun, Trees
September 20, 2012

Watching the Tide Turn.
Estuaries Drain, Then Fill.
I Feel the Moon’s Tug.

Distance, Moon, Water
September 18, 2012

Stumps Line the Hillsides
Like Tombstones of the Ancient Trees
We Refuse to Mourn.

Death, Memories, Trees
September 11, 2012

Before or Beyond
Random Measure or Words, Your
Blue-Green Eyes Caught Mine

dreams, Spiritual, With Juliette Crane
September 8, 2012

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

Autumn, Family, Food, Memories
August 20, 2012

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

Autumn, Morning, Trees
August 8, 2012

Swallows Leap and Dive
Plunging Through the Cut Grass Scent
Behind the Mower

Birds, Summer
March 15, 2012

Under your blue gaze,
All our words, all our language
Begins a slow fade

Animals, With Juliette Crane
March 15, 2012

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

Clouds, Moon, Morning, Spring
February 29, 2012

Wind and Sunshine Scours
Trailing Clouds from Blue Sky and
Winter from our Hearts

Clouds, Sky, sunlight, winter
February 23, 2012

Let Others Count in
Years. I Prefer Bouquets of
Ageless Memories.

Birthdays, Family, Friends, Haiku’d Photographs, History, Memories
February 15, 2012

Ladder in the Hall,
Secular Hymns, Thoughts Climbing
Beyond the Attic

Home, Music, Spiritual
February 11, 2012

A Warming Winter
Day Hints at Spring as Crow Rises
To Hawk Crying War

Birds, Sky, Spring, winter
January 6, 2012

Winter Sunrise Tops
Frosted Rooftops, Wraps Bare Tree
Limbs in Warmth and Light

Sunrise, Trees, winter
January 3, 2012

Frozen Lake Echoes
Winter Sunrise and Calling
Crows On the Wing

Birds, Morning, Water, winter
January 1, 2012

Earlie Cat Asleep
On my legs as I’m reading,
A New Year’s blessing.

Cats, Haiku’d Photographs, Spiritual
December 1, 2011

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

Morning, Sunrise, winter
November 13, 2011

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

Autumn, Music, Sky
November 1, 2011

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

Autumn, Rural, winter
October 20, 2011

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

Autumn, Clouds, Spiritual, Trees, Wind
October 17, 2011

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

Animals, Autumn, Haiku’d Photographs, Water
October 16, 2011

Along the Sidewalk
Waiting, No Expectations,
The Wisdom of Trees

Haiku’d Photographs, Trees
October 15, 2011

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

Autumn, Family, Memories, Spiritual
October 3, 2011

Why am I Here, Now?
To Hold Myself Hard in the
Path of Traveling Grace.

History, Spiritual
September 30, 2011

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

Autumn, Spiritual
August 31, 2011

This Loss Drenched Summer
Still Holds Flickering Hope, If
We Choose to Notice

Cats, Death, dreams, Haiku’d Photographs, Memories, Summer
August 28, 2011

Never Again Will
We Have Our First Summer Of
Baseball, You And I.

Love, Memories, Summer
August 19, 2011

At This Summer’s End,
I’m Feeling a Teenager’s
Wistful Ennui

Summer
August 2, 2011

Her Owl’s Wings Stir the
Magic in Summer Nights and
Our Slumbering Hearts

See the story of the making of “Take Flight” on Juliette Crane’s blog

Birds, Night, With Juliette Crane
July 31, 2011

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

Autumn, Clouds
July 23, 2011

Memories Rise on
A Ripe Avocado’s Scent.
Florida, Lunch, and Mom

Family, Food, Haiku’d Photographs, Memories, Summer
June 24, 2011

Take off. Then Snapshots
Of Home Through the Clouds, The Present
Receding to Past

Clouds, Distance, History, Memories
June 21, 2011

Blessed by Holy Light
Each Anniversary An
Eternal New Bloom

Flowers, Haiku’d Photographs, Love, Memories
June 4, 2011

I hear the voices
On a summer’s evening
Of those who’ve left us

Death, Friends, Memories, Music
May 24, 2011

Winter Remembered
White Crab Apple Blossoms Drift
Across the Sidewalk

Flowers, Memories, Snow, Spring, winter
May 12, 2011

Farmsteads Scattered Like
Promises Across Plowed Fields
To Blurred Horizons

Distance, Rural
May 3, 2011

How the Best Justice
Recalls Sorrow, a Balance
Regained but not Love

Death, History, Memories
April 17, 2011

Davi Dohm 1975-2011

A Death in Springtime
Un-summoned and Whispering
Too Soon… Too soon…

Chasing Comets with Davi – 2013

Death, Friends, Memories
April 15, 2011

Each spring, year on year,
We’re surprised and delighted
By every new bloom

Animals, Flowers, Spring, With Juliette Crane
April 13, 2011

What Is It About
Wind Riffling Open Water
That Suggests Essence

Spring, Water, Wind
April 2, 2011

Knowing Better, But
Still Wanting Open Water
In Early April

Spring, Water
March 30, 2011

In Full Lizard Mode,
Soaking up the Sun on a
Bench in the Garden

Animals, Garden, Spring, Sun
March 28, 2011

Brown Grass Peeks Through Snow
Bare Tree Limbs Etch Deep Blue Sky
Early Spring’s First Signs

Sky, Snow, Spring, Trees
March 24, 2011

I Heard Winter’s End
In the Night’s Passing Sigh of
Tires on Rain Slicked Roads

Night, Rain, Roads, winter
March 17, 2011

Knife Knock Knock Knocking
Cutting Board, Bananas Sliced to
Full Moons for Pancakes

Food, Moon
March 10, 2011

Even in Latest
Winter, Weary is Hard to
Hold In Black and White.

winter