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.
May 4, 2011 at 7:17 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Earth and Water (Chiri), Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Rain, Senryu, Sun, Transportation, Weather and tagged: city, color, haiku, poem, postday2011, pseudohaiku, rain, Senryu, silver, street, sun, track, train, trolley, urban, water
An old trolley track
Slices the street with silver
Sunlight after rain.
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.
April 26, 2011 at 10:56 pm · Filed under Food and Drink, Fruit, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Pseudohaiku and tagged: amethyst, color, fruit, gem, grape, haiku, juice, juicy, metaphor, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, purple
Bursting on the tongue
Juicy purple amethysts
A stem of black grapes.
April 18, 2011 at 1:21 pm · Filed under Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Pseudohaiku and tagged: boots, distance, dust, friends, haiku, hiking, memory, path, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, trail
My old hiking boots
Bearing dust of distant paths
Walked with distant friends.
For, among others, and in alphabetical order, B.M., E.E., H.G., M.Q., and N.C.
April 17, 2011 at 12:31 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Buildings, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Weather, Wind and tagged: amusement park, boardwalk, ferris wheel, ocean, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, sea, storm, wind
Wind howls from the sea
At the closed amusement park
The Ferris wheel spins.
April 16, 2011 at 10:45 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Earth and Water (Chiri), Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Rain, Weather and tagged: haiku, horizon, lightning, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, rain, storm, thunder, thunderstorm
Distant thunder snarls
Lightning stabs the horizon
Now – the plunging rain.
March 12, 2011 at 11:11 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Poetry, Pseudohaiku and tagged: alliteration, black, blue, color, crow, onomatopoeia, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, sky
Black blots against blue
Coarse cacophony of caws
A murder of crows.
March 2, 2011 at 11:41 am · Filed under Earth and Water (Chiri), Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Stones, Sun, Trees and tagged: amber, diamond, fire, fossil, gem, haiku, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, sun, tree
Ancient tree’s relic
Frozen sunlight, captive fire,
Brighter than diamond.
February 20, 2011 at 5:49 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Evening, Night, Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Sun, Time of Day and tagged: east, finger, metaphor, night, personification, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, shadow, sun, sunset
Sunset-cast shadows
Point long fingers to the east
Implicating night.
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A Haiku Each Day