Archive for simile
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.
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April 27, 2011 at 11:52 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Day, Haiku, Insects and Spiders, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spiders, Spring, Time of Day, Time of Year, Weather, Wind and tagged: April, breeze, haiku, kite, poem, postaday2011, simile, spider, spiderling, spring, wind
Breezy April day
Spiderlings sail by like kites
Trailing silken strings.
For J.L.
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April 15, 2011 at 12:52 pm · Filed under Flowers, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees and tagged: boot, flower, garden, haiku, magnolia, path, petal, poem, postaday2011, simile, transience, tree
Magnolia petals
Folded over like wet boots
Line the garden path.
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April 11, 2011 at 11:54 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Flowers, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Weather, Wind and tagged: cherry, color, flower, haiku, pink, poem, postaday2011, simile, snow, spring, tree, wind
Wind through cherry trees
Fragile petals shaken loose
Drifting like pink snow.
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February 19, 2011 at 9:48 am · Filed under Art and Literature, Earth and Water (Chiri), Human Affairs (Jinji), Metahaiku, Ocean, Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Senryu, Technology and tagged: blue, blue screen of death, color, failure, Metahaiku, ocean, poem, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, Senryu, simile, technology
A blue screen of death
Vast as a tropical sea…
No haiku today.
I wrote this haiku on 2/19/2011 but, due to aforementioned BSOD, couldn’t post it then…
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February 13, 2011 at 5:15 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Celestial, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Pastimes, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Sun, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: ball, basketball, color, game, haiku, hoop, orange, poem, postaday2011, simile, sports, sun, sunset
Orange basketball
Sinks past the hoop’s horizon
Like a setting sun.
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February 9, 2011 at 12:21 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Climate, Cold, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Weather, Wind, Winter and tagged: bird, cold, flight, haiku, paper, plastic, poem, postaday2011, simile, trash, wind, winter
Gusts of bitter wind
Plastic bags and paper towels
Fly like startled birds.
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January 26, 2011 at 9:46 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Evening, Haiku, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Day, Time of Year, Weather, Winter and tagged: bird, evening, postaday2011, simile, snow, weather, winter
Late winter evening
Snow descending like white birds
Coming home to roost.
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A Haiku Each Day 