solstice passed
nights growing longer
crescent moon
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #144: Solstice I.
Image: Crescent Moon (16%) 24 June 2020 ~ 8:00pm CST (left) & 10:00pm CST (right)
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school of gar splashes
startled by passing kayak
a kingfisher dives
This haiku using the kigo of kingfisher is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai
Challenge #143: Choose-your-own
Summer Kigo.
This actually occurred yesterday while I was kayaking.
Image source: Smithsonian/National Museum of Asian Art
Kingfisher, by Tsukioka Kōgyo
hard rains bring wet spring
tall grass grows beneath the trees
where are the fireflies
This haiku is my response to Frank Tassone’s #Haikai
Challenge #142: firefly.
Image source: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Firefly and Spider Web, unknown artist
dry grass turns
seeks gift from above
summer rain
This haiku is my response to Rain,
the prompt from Sarah at dVerse Poets Pub.
Also linked to Colleen’s 2020Weekly #Tanka Tuesday
#Poetry Challenge No. 180 #Poet’sChoice.
Photo by Kat Jayne from Pexels
lovely song
music heard by all
a bird breathes
This haiku is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge #141: Justice,
which reminds us of the growing list of black lives lost
in a cycle that seems unending.
Image source: whitehouse.gov
blue bearded iris
under flowering moonlight
garden’s pale beauty
This haiku is my response to
Carpe Diem’s Time Challenge 2 – Super Moon
Image: digital manipulation – recent Super Flower Moon behind blue bearded iris
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spring blossoms
on the horizon
flower moon
This haiku is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai Challenge – Flower Moon
and Colleen’s #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 176: #Poet’sChoice.
Image: super moon, 5:00am CST, 07 May 2020
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lovely sign of spring
wild violet along path
welcome first blossom
This haiku is my response to
Carpe Diem’s Time Challenge – first blossoms
Image: Viola sororia (common blue violet), Runge Conservation Nature Center
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in its shadowed form
new moon filled with hope for man
waiting for moonlight
This haiku is my response to
Frank Tassone’s #Haikai
Challenge #135: New Moon.
~ Day 19 ~
Image: New Moon hidden by Missouri’s cloudy sky
cardinal feeding
brilliant red on a gray day
silent falling mist
Today is National Haiku Poetry Day
~ Day 17 ~
