Posts tagged impermanent
Haiku-a-day
A sandhill crane with its beak open walking through tall grass in fall.

Their calls peal across
the river, telling the time —
finding each other.

Haiku-a-day
A handsome black and white dog enjoying a sun bath sitting in the grass.

His nose to the sun
in the warm November grass —
it seeps, seeps, seeps in.

Haiku-a-day
A view of tall maples in autumn lit by evening sun.

Sun caught in maples
on the first of November —
the chill comes in quick.

Haiku-a-day
Yellow gingko tree leaves on the forest floor.

A nuthatch honks and
hides in the pines as we pass,
the gingko, pleading.

Haiku-a-day
A gingko tree with golden yellow leaves in early evening in a field of dried goldenrod.

Sun dogs overhead
while the gingko holds its leaves
as a third false sun.

Haiku-a-day
A patch of wall-screw moss grows on a log in the sunshine.

Red in the sunlight,
wall-screw moss grows in soft lines
like a universe.

Haiku-a-day
The silhouette of a person and tree trunks over a forest floor covered with newly fallen colorfyl leaves in autumn.

It’s coming undone,
the tree that lost all its leaves,
shadow in daylight.

Haiku-a-day
A large cloud bank against a blue sky over a river in autumn.

We’re swallowed by it —
the clouds making a bright sheen
on the wide river.

Haiku-a-day
A Beech tree in a forest carved with initials, hearts, and designs.

Totem in the woods,
Beech tree carved with initials,
hearts fused in the knots.

Haiku-a-day
A sandhill crane feeding on acorns in grass near a forest edge.

Body smooth as stone,
neck like a flying kite tail —
sandhill crane in fall.

Haiku-a-day
A clump of orange marigolds blooming.

Unfazed by cold nights,
marigolds in October
grow like there’s no end.

Haiku-a-day
The sun sets behind a shilhouetted old-growth forest.

The curtain of night
closes on the old forest
you and I walk through.

Haiku-a-day
The sun reflected in a marsh among grasses and lily pads at the edge of a small lake.

At the evening marsh,
the sun and the lily pads
float in the grasses.

Haiku-a-day
Two shadows on a bridge cast on a river with Canadian Geese floating.

At the bridge’s edge
we’re thrown into the river
by long warm shadows.