Archive for tree
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 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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April 7, 2011 at 1:15 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Time of Year, Trees and tagged: bird, cardinal, finch, haiku, mockingbird, poem, postaday2011, robin, song, spring, suprise, tree
Robin, cardinal, finch
All singing in the same tree
No – one mockingbird!
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April 5, 2011 at 9:25 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Butterflies and Moths, Flowers, Haiku, Insects and Spiders, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees and tagged: butterfly, color, flight, flower, haiku, insect, pear, poem, postaday2011, spring, tree, white
One white pear blossom
Rises from the blooming bough
Spring’s first butterfly.
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April 4, 2011 at 10:21 am · Filed under Earth and Water (Chiri), Flowers, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Trees, Water and tagged: cherry, flower, haiku, mud, poem, postaday2011, puddle, spring, tree, water
Floating serenely
A perfect cherry blossom
In a mud puddle.
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A Haiku Each Day 