It was their birthday the other day. This fell off a shelf while I was cleaning my room.
Found Senryu – Memories
Two Haiku & One Senryu – November 29, 2020
The winter palette
Blue jay feathers – holly leaves
Red winter berries
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Now the trees slumber
Songbirds follow the warm sun
Quiet left behind.
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A whispered farewell
Trusted to the western wind
And our twin-faced moon.
One Senryu & Two Haiku- September 11, 2019
Some missing pieces
So then can you call it love?
Like a Sappho poem.
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Late summer crickets
The houseplant’s tendrils creeping
Towards florescent light.
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The moon not quite full
Warm for early September
Two stray cats yowling.
Three Haiku – May 19, 2019
On the path ahead
A bluejay’s missing feather
Shimmers with sunlight.
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Here the twisted roots
Furrow the face of the hill
Bare to wind and rain.
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Holly, who was queen
All through the leafless winter
Languishes in shade.
Three Haiku – May 2, 2019
After the rainfall
The sidewalk decorated
With soft pink petals
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Rain on the rooftop
Inside, the sound of laughter
Echoes off the walls.
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Dandelion seeds
They have wishes of their own
Earth, sun, and water.
Two Haiku & One Senryu – April 18, 2019 “Wind”
Sound of dull saw teeth
Gentle wind on the ridgeline
Twilight approaching
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How the ravens croak
How the evening winds whisper
Kindle the fire.
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You are the soft wind
That moves my limbs shakes my leaves
Your gentle power.
Two Haiku & One Senryu, April 12, 2019
Blossoms, but no leaves
Coats against the morning chill
Spring is still so young.
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Trees stirring awake
Birds sing of their homecoming
A little dog’s grin.
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My soul felt so old
Until it found its playmate
We laugh like children.
Three Haiku – March 21, 2019 (Thaw)
Hyacinth perfume
The purple flowers blooming
Spring intoxicates.
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The first tulip shoots
Rise from yesterday’s bare earth
Greeted by birdsong
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When will the trees bud
And the robins return home?
Can you feel the thaw?
Three Haiku- February 17, 2019
These grassy sand dunes
Seem a fine vacation home
Visiting owl.
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Melancholy woods?
There is no such thing, old friend
You brought it with you.
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Lovers carve their names
Into the elephant skin
Of this old beech tree.
Three Haiku- January 22, 2019
A storm approaches
Birds cry out to each other
A riot of song.
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Corner of my eye
Enormous Raven in flight
Brilliant black feathers.
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I think of autumn
When we can walk together
Under painted leaves.
Three Haiku – January 2, 2019
A beaver’s teeth marks
This tree will not stand for long
Windy mountain top.
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Squirrel on wires
A few morning snowflakes fall
Sound of scratching claws.
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Tree robbed of branches
To make room for power lines
Our priorities.
Three Haiku – December 28, 2018.
The sounds of cold rain
And my feet on damp soil
All else is quiet.
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“Holly tree!” I cry
How glad I am that you grow
While the others sleep.
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Music of the streams
This new rainfall spills their banks
They feed the salt marsh.
Three Haiku – November 23, 2018
Found you in a dream
You’re still no good at goodbyes
Dawn – Alone again.
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Beggar’s empty cup
Walking through stop light traffic
Thin and ragged gloves.
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Miss our little talks
When you could spare a moment
My heart leapt for joy.
Three Haiku – November 15, 2018 (A Snowfall)
The fresh fallen snow
Ice laden tree limbs glitter
and groan at the weight
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Wind howls – sirens scream
Shovels scraping on sidewalks
Sounds at the window
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The moon is hiding
Behind a shawl of storm clouds
Who could blame her though?
Three Haiku – October 14, 2018
No poem so pretty
As a yellow maple leaf
Fluttering to earth.
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Will you come to tea?
The kettle overboils
Hear the shrieking steam.
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Chattering of birds
Dispels these dark thoughts for now
Hazard a smile.
Three Haiku – October 8, 2018
No cries of sea birds
Steel, concrete, and car exhaust
New Jersey marshlands.
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Food loses savor
And my ribs begin to show
This anxiety.
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Mist shrouded tree trunks
Wet leaves glisten – fungi sprout
Early autumn damp.
Three Haiku- September 30th, 2018
I woke this morning
Baptized by chilly dew drops
Nature’s kiss at dawn
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Fragile as a moth
Or the hollow bones of birds
No, this hope is steel
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First chill of autumn
Chairs inch closer and closer
To the dying fire.
Three Haiku – September 25, 2018
Drink deep, sweet willow
Like the rain was just for you
I will watch you grow.
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Magnolia tree
Its roots drowned in sodden spring
The sad withered leaves.
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One day with you would
Be worth a hundred summers
Yet you turn away.
Three Haiku – September 23, 2018
Light autumn rainfall
Droplets in the canopy
Soft earth underfoot
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O Rhododendron
I’ve never seen this red fruit
Clustered among leaves
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Does your silence speak?
I fill it with sweet stories
And hope you are well.
Three Haiku – Septmeber 18, 2018
Autumn chrysalis
Let us meet when things ripen
Under painted leaves
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This battered old thing
Warm quivering heart of mine
Still filled with great hope.
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Soon, the Equinox
Already the rain grows cold
My shirt soaked – I laugh
Seventeen Beats 