HAIKU--A FIRST SHEET

Rising early
I find your offer
of newest jonquils  

If I walk near the ocean--
the waves will
drown you out!  

My voice sings,
But here, today
birds take flight

Listening to a lecture
I drift while outside
the sun appears

Back country roads
the hush of tires
against snow  

crocus push the earth
i respond
by raking

Writing is
spring
all over again!                                                                   

Torrents of rain                                     
my mournful cat                             
stares into the yard

The white flower drops
to the damp ground
my spirit lifts with it
                            
Into the blue velvet night
resound the peepers--
my endless regrets.









 

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 HAIKU--A SECOND SHEET

Another winter looms                        
​but first the reprieve
of autumn--glory days! 
      
A student reads--
around her
a concentration of silence.  

The toad in my garden
a sentinel of patience
his reward--a fly.

Crusin' home, suddenly
red, blue lights flash
in my rear view...

Flowers on the patio                             
​a boisterous reminder
of my hard work.

The sun, milky white,
a pale resemblance
of itself-- another dawn!
 
BE-ing thirteen,
a janus-time,
backward, forward,
which way to go?                            

Like seaweed
opaque and tangled--
such are my thoughts
this morning.  

A winter storm passes
leaving icicle beards
on bulging gutters                                      

Fat cat, one eye open,
asking
"when will I feed her?"