Archive for nature
January 8, 2011 at 11:40 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Pastimes, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Year, Trees, Weather, Winter and tagged: birch, color, haiku, lace, metaphor, nature, personification, plant, postaday2011, snow, tree, weather, white, winter
Winter tats her lace
Delicate white traceries
Birches in the snow.
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November 16, 2010 at 9:35 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Birds, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Poetry, Pond, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Water and tagged: animal, autumn, bird, flight, haiku, lake, nature, pond, reflection, swallow, water
Swallows dip in flight
To kiss their own reflections
On the autumn pond.
October 28, 2010 at 4:48 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Life and Death, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Summer, Time of Year and tagged: bird, death, haiku, human, life, memory, mockingbird, nature, song, songbird, summer, whistle
The old mockingbird
Still imitates his whistle –
How many summers?
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October 9, 2010 at 10:29 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Beach, Birds, Celestial, Earth and Water (Chiri), Seabirds, Seasons (Jiko), Summer, Sun and tagged: animal, beach, bird, haiku, metaphor, nature, poem, seagull, summer
Red-rimmed yellow eye
Seagull glaring at the sun
Daring it to blink.
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October 8, 2010 at 2:46 pm · Filed under Autumn, Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Seasons (Jiko), Trees and tagged: autumn, color, copper, green, haiku, leaves, metaphor, nature, patina, personification, poem, summer, tree
Autumn polishes
Rubs off summer’s patina
Green yields to copper.
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October 7, 2010 at 2:41 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Birds, Birds of Prey, Seasons (Jiko) and tagged: autumn, Basho, bird, birdwatching, Cape May, falcon, flight, haiku, hawk, migration, nature, poem, simile
Quick as a surprise
The first migrating falcon
Over Cape May Point.
The Basho haiku that inspired me, loosely paraphrased:
Solitary hawk
The delight of finding it
At Irago Point.
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October 6, 2010 at 2:38 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Birds, Birds of Prey, Haiku, Pigeons, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Winter and tagged: autumn, birds, falcon, fall, haiku, hawk, nature, pigeon, poem, predator, prey, sparrow, winter
Pigeons and sparrows
Panic into whirling flocks
Pointed wings above.
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October 4, 2010 at 2:34 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Insects and Spiders, Ladybugs, Seasons (Jiko), Summer and tagged: bug, haiku, insect, ladybug, nature, poem, predator
Smooth-shelled hemisphere,
Candy-colored polka dots,
Beneath: the dark jaws.
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October 2, 2010 at 2:29 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Plants (Shokubutsu), Seasons (Jiko), Trees, Weather, Wind, Winter and tagged: haiku, nature, poem, seaweed, simile, tree, weather, willow, wind, winter
Willows blown sideways
Like kelp in a strong current
Wind is air’s riptide.
(The first haiku I wrote since being assigned one in grade school; it doesn’t have an immediately obvious kigo but the wind bending trees in half has to be the early-winter kogarashi.)
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A Haiku Each Day 