Archive for February, 2011
February 28, 2011 at 6:59 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Fog and Mist, Haiku, Morning, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Day, Time of Year, Trees, Weather, Winter and tagged: color, fog, gray, haiku, mist, morning, pine, poem, postaday2011, tree, winter
Gray winter morning
Pine trees loom out of the mist
Beyond them – nothing.
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February 27, 2011 at 8:20 pm · Filed under Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Transportation, Trees, Winter and tagged: color, drive, green, haiku, leaves, metaphor, north, personification, poem, postaday2011, tree
Another long drive
Back north into the winter
Trees shed veils of green.
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February 26, 2011 at 3:48 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Climate, Cold, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Year, Transportation, Winter and tagged: cold, earth, haiku, metaphor, personification, poem, postaday2011, snow, south, spring, thaw, winter
On a long drive south
The earth sheds a coat of snow
Every hundred miles.
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February 25, 2011 at 9:06 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Climate, Haiku, Poetry, Rain, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Weather, Wind, Winter and tagged: haiku, music, percussion, poem, postaday2011, power line, rain, season, song, spring, warm, whistle, wind, winter
Warm rain’s percussion
Wind whistling through power lines
Season change’s song.
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February 24, 2011 at 9:23 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Mountain, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Year, Water, Winter and tagged: haiku, melt, mountain, poem, postaday2011, puddle, snow, thaw, transience, valley, water, winter
Proud mountains of snow
Dwindle to hills, then valleys
Finally…puddles.
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February 23, 2011 at 6:16 pm · Filed under Climate, Cold, Evening, Haiku, Health, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Senryu, Time of Day, Time of Year, Transportation, Winter and tagged: bus, cigarette, cold, evening, haiku, human, human nature, poem, postaday2011, Senryu, smoker, superstition, transportation, winter
Cold winter evening
A man lights a cigarette
To make the bus come.
This actually “works” surprisingly often…
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February 22, 2011 at 6:21 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Evening, Haiku, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Sun, Time of Day, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: color, haiku, mauve, peach, personification, poem, postaday2011, sky, spring, sunset, turquoise, winter
Turquoise, peach and mauve
The sky tries on spring colors
Pale winter sunset.
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February 20, 2011 at 5:49 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Evening, Night, Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Sun, Time of Day and tagged: east, finger, metaphor, night, personification, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, shadow, sun, sunset
Sunset-cast shadows
Point long fingers to the east
Implicating night.
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February 19, 2011 at 9:48 am · Filed under Art and Literature, Earth and Water (Chiri), Human Affairs (Jinji), Metahaiku, Ocean, Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Senryu, Technology and tagged: blue, blue screen of death, color, failure, Metahaiku, ocean, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, Senryu, simile, technology
A blue screen of death
Vast as a tropical sea…
No haiku today.
I wrote this haiku on 2/19/2011 but, due to aforementioned BSOD, couldn’t post it then…
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February 18, 2011 at 8:27 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Poetry, Pseudohaiku and tagged: bird, black, blue, color, flock, metaphor, pepper, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, sky
Black specks against blue
Pepper sprinkled on the sky
Distant flock of birds.
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