A Haiku Each Day
Sixty-two hundred and five Syllables a year.Archive for moon
Apogee
March 19, 2011 at 7:34 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Haiku, Moon, Night, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Stars, Time of Day, Time of Year and tagged: apogee, color, diamond, gem, haiku, metaphor, moon, pearl, poem, postaday2011, silver, stars
A vast silver pearl
Accented with diamond stars
Moon at apogee.
Cold Night
January 14, 2011 at 7:06 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Climate, Cold, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Moon, Mountain, Night, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Day, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: color, hill, moon, night, postaday2011, shadow, silver, sky, snow, winter
Pallid winter moon
Rises from the snowy hills
Silver shadows fall.
Saturnalia
December 21, 2010 at 1:49 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Moon, Night, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Day, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: color, eclipse, eye, holiday, lunar eclipse, metaphor, midwinter, moon, night, personification, red, solstice, winter
Eclipse-reddened moon
The solstice’s bloodshot eye
Closes the old year.
The winter solstice of 2010 was marked by a full lunar eclipse; if you haven’t seen one, the moon doesn’t disappear, it turns red!
Dawn
November 10, 2010 at 2:07 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Autumn, Celestial, Climate, Cold, Haiku, Moon, Morning, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Day, Time of Year and tagged: autumn, blink, cold, color, dawn, day, eyelash, haiku, metaphor, moon, morning, personification, silver
Cold autumn morning
An eyelash of silver moon
Blinking back the day.
Sky
October 23, 2010 at 12:17 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Autumn, Celestial, Evening, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Moon, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Transportation and tagged: airplane, autumn, contrail, dusk, evening, haiku, moon, sky, twilight
Early fall evening
A narrow airplane contrail
Punctuates the moon.
A Haiku Each Day 