A Haiku Each Day

Sixty-two hundred and five Syllables a year.

Memorial Day

War memorial
An old man and his grandson
Saluting the flag.

Cookout

Sweet barbeque smoke
Drifts over the new-mown grass
Warm summer evening.

Vines

Snake-green squash tendrils
Twine through sprawling tomatoes
Neglected garden.

Astronomy II

Galaxies of dust
Swim through a shaft of sunlight
The attic window.

Topsy-turvy

Sudden reflections
In a puddle on the road
Birds fly underfoot.

Mushrooms

Umbrellas for ants
Colorful mushrooms spring up
After a night’s rain.

Festoon

Paulownia trees
Fling their purple plumes skyward
Springtime fireworks.

Mimic

Whoops and beeps and whirrs
Mockingbirds sing car alarms
Over city streets.

Blues

Miniature lagoon
Half of a robin’s egg shell
Brimming with spring rain.

Armored

Beautiful grotesque
Ants like glittering chain mail
On a chicken bone.

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