A Haiku Each Day
Sixty-two hundred and five Syllables a year.Archive for leaves
200th Post
April 21, 2011 at 8:41 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Art and Literature, Autumn, Flowers, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Leaves, Metahaiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Weather, Winter and tagged: 200, 200th post, cherry, commemoration, fall, flower, haiku, leaves, Metahaiku, poem, postaday2011, snow, spring, syllable, winter, writing
Fall, winter, now spring
Leaves and snow and cherry blooms
Grace my syllables.
Jongleur
April 12, 2011 at 12:51 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Rain, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Water, Weather and tagged: haiku, juggle, leaf, leaves, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, poem, postaday2011, rain, raindrop, stem, twig
Droplets slide down stems
Plash and splash from twig to twig
Leaflets juggle rain.
For J.
Rosebush
March 13, 2011 at 9:58 am · Filed under Flowers, Haiku, Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Summer, Time of Year and tagged: bud, flower, haiku, June, leaves, March, poem, postaday2011, rose
Leaf buds on roses
As lovely a sight in March
As flowers in June.
Thaw III
March 7, 2011 at 11:55 am · Filed under Earth and Water (Chiri), Frost and Ice, Haiku, Leaves, Morning, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Day, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: earth, green, haiku, ice, leaves, morning, morning has broken, poem, postaday2011
Morning has broken:
Broken the earth with green shoots
Broken ice with warmth.
Northern Exposure
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.
Kale
January 21, 2011 at 11:23 am · Filed under Haiku, Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Vegetables, Winter and tagged: color, green, kale, labyrinth, leaves, metaphor, plant, postaday2011, purple, vegetable
Green and purple leaves
Whorled into a labyrinth
Ornamental kale.
Treasured
November 13, 2010 at 1:21 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Autumn, Grass, Haiku, Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Weather, Wind and tagged: autumn, color, comb, gold, grass, haiku, leaves, personification, plant, weather, wind
The wind combs the grass
Tosses the last leaves aside
Seeking fall’s lost gold.
Autumn Rain
November 6, 2010 at 6:26 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Autumn, Haiku, Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Rain, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Weather and tagged: autumn, gutter, haiku, leaves, metaphor, personification, rain, rake, street
Flocks of fallen leaves
Huddle in the wet gutter
Raked up by the rain.
Illumination
October 29, 2010 at 10:43 am · Filed under Autumn, Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Trees and tagged: autumn, color, gold, haiku, lawn, leaves, manuscript, metaphor, page, pun, suburb
Each suburban lawn
A page in fall’s manuscript
Burnished with gold leaves.
Dew
October 20, 2010 at 10:41 am · Filed under Autumn, Cold, Dew, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Leaves, Morning, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko) and tagged: autumn, dew, dewdrops, haiku, hawthorn, leaves, metaphor, morning, plant, poem
Chilly autumn dew
each hawthorn leaf bejeweled
with pavé diamonds.
