A Haiku Each Day
Sixty-two hundred and five Syllables a year.Archive for postaday2011
Palimpsest
May 9, 2011 at 11:19 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Buildings, Earth and Water (Chiri), Flowers, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Rain, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Water, Weather and tagged: flower, haiku, pavement, plant, plum, poem, postaday2011, rain, sidewalk, spring, transience, tree
Fallen plum blossoms
Translucent on wet pavement
The day after rain.
Samaras
May 8, 2011 at 2:21 pm · Filed under Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Seeds, Spring, Time of Year, Trees and tagged: color, flight, green, haiku, helicopter, maple, metaphor, poem, postaday2011, samara, seed, tree
Maple samaras
Tiny green helicopters
Twirling from the trees.
Aubade II
May 7, 2011 at 10:06 am · Filed under Grass, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Morning, Occupations, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Senryu, Spring, Summer, Technology, Time of Day, Time of Year and tagged: grass, haiku, jobs, lawn, lawnmower, morning, music, poem, postaday2011, Saturday, spring, summer
Saturday morning
A chorus of lawnmowers
Suburban music.
Geometrid
May 6, 2011 at 11:26 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Butterflies and Moths, Insects and Spiders, Night, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Day, Trees and tagged: anticipation, bark, color, gray, haiku, insect, moth, night, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, tree
Hidden in plain sight
A gray moth on gray tree bark
Waits for night to fall.
Flirtation
May 5, 2011 at 8:49 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Weather, Wind and tagged: breeze, haiku, metaphor, personification, poem, pollen, postaday2011, skirt, spring, tree, willow, wind
A fresh gust of wind
Lifts the weeping willow’s skirt
Swirling green pollen.
Jewelweed
May 3, 2011 at 9:17 pm · Filed under Dew, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Leaves, Morning, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Day, Time of Year and tagged: color, dew, dewdrop, green, haiku, jewelweed, May, metaphor, morning, plant, poem, postaday2011, silver, silverplate, spring, water
Pale green jewelweed
Silverplated by the dew
Early May morning.
Allium
May 2, 2011 at 8:44 pm · Filed under Flowers, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year and tagged: allium, color, fireworks, flower, green, haiku, metaphor, poem, postaday2011, purple, spring, stem
Purple fireworks
Bursting from a long green stem
Allium in bloom.
Drawing
May 1, 2011 at 6:32 pm · Filed under Art and Literature, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Senryu and tagged: art, drawing, form, haiku, line, paper, pencil, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, shape
Pencils trace a line
Lines form shapes and shapes limn forms
Paper comes to life.
Birdwatching III
April 29, 2011 at 12:22 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Time of Year, Trees and tagged: bird, birdsong, blue, bud, bunting, color, gem, haiku, indigo bunting, poem, postaday2011, sapphire, simile, song, songbird, spring, tree
Bluer than sapphire
Singing from a budding tree
Indigo bunting.
Spring Morning
April 28, 2011 at 1:06 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Art and Literature, Celestial, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Morning, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Sun, Time of Day, Time of Year and tagged: haiku, metaphor, morning, painter, painting, poem, postaday2011, sky, spring, sun, sunrise, watercolor
Watercolor sky
Awaits the painter’s last touch
Just before sunrise.
A Haiku Each Day 