A Year in Haiku

March 9, 2013

Bright White, Late Winter
Drifts Rise on the Fog to Frost
All the Trees’ Branches

Snow, Trees, winter
March 9, 2013

Snow Drifts Breaking Blue
Over the Cliff’s Edge As If
Distilled From Pure Sky

Sky, Snow, winter
March 8, 2013

Winter Winds Painted
In the Drifts Trailing Fence Posts
Along the Covered Fields

Rural, Wind, winter
March 8, 2013

Winter Sun Seen Through
An Eagle’s Spread Tail Feathers
Snow Carried Aloft

Birds, Sun, winter
March 7, 2013

Sanded Country Roads,
Like Lost Paths in Leafless Woods,
Revealed by the Snow

Roads, Rural, Snow, Trees, winter
February 13, 2013

Sunrise Softens Night’s
Geometry Into My
Neighborhood Skyline

Home, Sky, Sunrise
February 4, 2013

Winter’s the Season
When Sky Holds All the Colors
Above White and Brown

Clouds, Sky, Snow, winter
January 21, 2013

Great Uncle Harry’s History

Watching Farms and Fields,
Forests and Sky Passing By
Whispering Meaning

Death, Distance, Family, History, Home, Memories, Rural
January 13, 2013

Lt. Col. Paul J. Finken and Family

Thankful For Soldiers
And All Who Do Their Duty
Uniformed Or Not.

History, Spiritual, Work
January 9, 2013

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

Birds, Frustrations, Morning, Snow, Sun, winter
December 23, 2012

The Art of Making
Breakfast Before She’s Awake
A Whispering Wisk

Food, Home, Love
December 21, 2012

Bare Tree Limbs, Fresh Snow
And Apricot Sunrise Paint
Old Lace on Blue Skies

History, Memories, Sky, Snow, Sunrise, Trees, winter
December 9, 2012

Just Before Sunrise
The Season’s First Real Snow Sounds
Like Nature’s Heartbeat

Snow, Sunrise, winter
November 29, 2012

To Three Cats, Three plates
Chime Supper On the Tile Floor
And They Come Running

Cats, Food, Music
November 29, 2012

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

Autumn, Haiku’d Photographs, Music, Spiritual
November 21, 2012

A November Sun
Paints My Street the Color of
Faded History

Autumn, History, Home, sunlight
November 3, 2012

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

Autumn, Clouds, Sunrise, Trees
October 19, 2012

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

Autumn
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