Posts tagged forest
Haiku-a-day
A mature forest dusted with light snow.

Like buoyant notes found
with the greatest tenderness,
each tree snow-dusted.

Haiku-a-day
A close view of lichen growing on a log on the forest floor in winter.

I’ll speak our names here,
to the lichen in these woods,
to remember us.

Haiku-a-day
A close view of lichen and moss growing on a branch on the forest floor in winter.

Everything is soft
on the forest floor — alive
in December light.

Haiku-a-day
A thick sharp cloud connected to puffy clouds block out sun over tall trees with a patch of blue still showing on the right.

Day after solstice,
winter sky pulls over us,
cold clouds of all kinds.

Haiku-a-day
A female white-tailed deer walking through a bare winter forest.

Tan on tan on tan,
the doe marches off to meet
two others waiting.

Haiku-a-day
A pilieated woodpecker perched in the high branches of a mature tree in a forest on a cloudy winter day.

Ancient wings and beak,
his call breaks the cold silence
in the still forest.

Haiku-a-day
A view towards the sky of bare-limbed branches in a mature forest on a cloudy winter day.

A December day,
forest open to the sky —
nests and birds revealed.

Haiku-a-day
An old nest built in a gnarled willow tree trunk.

A nest in the knot,
perfectly rounded and shaped,
birds fledged and flying.

Haiku-a-day

A cold winter bloom,
sunburst lichen under snow —
geese creak in the sky.

Haiku-a-day
The trunks of two Beech trees growing close togther in a forest.

Side-by-side beech trees,
gray-skinned, here long before me
and long after me.

Haiku-a-day
A tree trunk and three large rocks at the edge of a river in November.

The air’s been let out,
hardly any birdsong heard,
the bare bones of earth show.

Haiku-a-day
Faint sun coming out behind clouds to briefly reflect in a river in November.

November sun breaks
weakly on the cold river —
everything changes.

Haiku-a-day
Turkeytail mushroom blooming on a decaying log in the forest.

Quietly blooming
like sunsets, seashells, stacked clouds,
deep forest fungi.