Poet Laundry: Haiku and Senryu

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Not Everyone is Allergic

for quails in spring

a scotch broom thicket

is moonlight and roses

for Carpe Diem, Finally Spring

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Blooms of Spring

Claude Monet, Wisteria

wisteria vines

cling the trellis

and me, the hope of spring

For Carpe Diem, Wisteria

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Bucking Winter

spring horsetails

even john wayne

can’t tame ‘em

For Carpe Diem: horsetails. Celebrating my 100th post, and since I am a cowgirl at heart this is perfect. :-)

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Skagit Valley

Skagit Valley Tulips, image: Wikimedia Commons

end of snow

tulips

inherit the earth

For Carpe Diem #144. Every year about this time the Skagit Valley Tulips start doing their thing!

Thursday, March 7, 2013

City Park


City Park, Carpe Diem

across the pond

your lonely childhood

in an empty swing

For Carpe Diem Imagination #3

Monday, March 4, 2013

Abhorrent

Image by TheFoxAndTheRaven, via The Mag

what does it say about you

that i’d rather be here

huddling in rain

A haiku written for The Mag 158 and for the Real Toads prompt 'Today We Scream’ brought to us by Susie Clevenger in honor of the Woman Scream International Poetry Festival to raise awareness through poetry about violence against women. My poem refers to the domestic variety.

Image: Woman Scream Internacional Poetry Festival

Friday, February 8, 2013

Date Night Kiss

forgotten

the car keys

and whose fault it was

haiku my heart

Thursday, January 10, 2013

January Smoothie

dark tart cherries

frozen

winter bliss

winter melancholy

the color of

iced blueberries

pomegranate arils

winter’s

escape pods

for haiku my heart

Friday, January 4, 2013

Sitka Pirates

a seashore moon

casting long sitka spruce shadows

ghost pirate ship sails

haiku my heart

Friday, December 28, 2012

New

in awe of His promise

to make all things new

even me

New for Haiku Heights and haiku my heart

Happy New Year :)

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Snowdrops and Sleigh Bells

snowdrops splashing

like citrus squeezed

onto feathered ice

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snowdrops

dripping from the tongue

of the moon

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sleigh bells

and a hush of snow

almost silent night

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sleigh bells jingling

even the snowman

smiles and waves

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the sky flinging snow today

just to hear

children laughing again

Haiku Heights

Friday, December 21, 2012

Winter Solstice

frost sparkles on

maple leaf confetti

autumn’s party ends

haiku my heart

Tuesday, December 18, 2012

26

26 reasons

to remember why

He came

It’s Christmas, but I find it difficult to feel celebratory. I know most are probably feeling the same way with hearts heavy and broken from last week’s devastation. And yet I am reminded of why He came. He came not because He wanted us to decorate trees and drink egg nog and rack up credit card debt giving gifts. He came because we are in darkness, and He is the Light of the world. John 8:12 Come, let us behold Him. Perhaps we have never needed to more.