A Haiku Each Day

Sixty-two hundred and five Syllables a year.

Archive for Fruit

Festivities

Early Christmas treats
Red finches pluck the berries
From a holly wreath.

Incarnadine

Ripe nightshade berries
Robins stain their yellow bills
With bright crimson juice.

Labor Day

Summer’s last picnic
Children spitting melon seeds
At the school year’s face.

Waxwings

Sleek cedar waxwings
Murmur in the mulberries
Drowsy afternoon.

Salvia

Fragrant herb garden
Pollen-heavy honeybees
Ride the purple sage.

Citrus III

An orange helix
Coils down to the table
Fresh-peeled tangerine.

Adorned II

Peridot necklace
Bright green maple samaras
Strung on slender twigs.

Peaches

Overripe peaches
Tossed aside into the snow
Summer discarded.

After Chiyo-Ni

Ruby lips and nails
Forgotten – how sweet the juice
Of a fresh-peeled orange!

Grapes

Bursting on the tongue
Juicy purple amethysts
A stem of black grapes.