HaikuHedgehog

lone, steady dawn star
brighter than the faded lane lines
a long road ahead

#haiku

a pair of small yellow flowers bloom out of a rotting railroad tie

reclamation
from the rotting railroad tie
a hardy blossom

#haiku #haiga

The Dead?

No words
will bring them back.

Only words
will bring them back.

pink and orange cone flower with clumps of golden pollen on it

the fading fall bloom
offers its all, golden beads
to the tired bees

#haiku #haiga

all eyes on the sun
casting its red ripples, while
beneath our boats
in the black, brackish water
ghostly jellyfish drift, bloom

#tanka

Colorful autumn foliage at Ukan Gorge, a tributary of the Asahikawa River in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Colorful autumn foliage at Ukan Gorge, a tributary of the Asahikawa River in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Colorful autumn foliage at Ukan Gorge, a tributary of the Asahikawa River in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Colorful autumn foliage at Ukan Gorge, a tributary of the Asahikawa River in Okayama Prefecture, Japan.

Happy Friday from #Japan!

The scorching heat is over for this year and I'm getting in the mood for a much-needed #autumn - so hear are some photos from Ukan Valley, a fabulous location in #Okayama Prefecture.

#photography #naturephotography #scape #ArtYear #EastCoastKiin @bskyphotos.bsky.social

I found "skeuonym", but there aren't many references to it. It came from "skeuomorph", when a new technology has the shape of an old one, even thought it doesn't need to in order to function (like those flame-shaped light bulbs).

everwas.com/2011/01/skeu...

www.charlesleon.uk/blog/skeuomo...

A star made of mirror shards, on the end of a log overgrown with ivy

there once were many
of these silver shard blazes
their brief, bright flare
already overtaken
by the crawl of vines and time

#tanka #micropoetry

Panoramic view from a hiking trail overlook

The birds were launching nearby and circling past, closer than I've ever seen them. I could see tiny cars wending down the highway, farms and fields. But that wasn't what they were looking for...

different perspectives
sharing the view with vultures
bustle, and decay

#haiku #haiga

Orange Chicken of the Woods mushrooms growing on a log, amid ferns

#FungiFriends

late night crickets
replace the whirr of AC
after the heatwave

#haiku

A single daily lily, crimson leaves with a yellow center, speckled with raindrops; the rest of the stalks in the bed are empty; their blooms have already dropped.

the decisive pop
flower fireworks finale
last bloom of the bed

#haiku #haiga

both of us resting
kayak paddle on my knees
dragonfly on the edge

#haiku

faint light, fading fast,
lonely beacons of summer:
mid-July fireflies

#haiku

It feels like an odd sort of compliment when the turtles think I'm harmless enough that they don't have to leave their log when I pass by.

timid young turtles
warily eye the paddler
while their elders
know better than to bother
stay still, serenely sunning

#tanka #micropoetry

fleeting figurehead
dragonfly perched on the prow
of the paddleboard

#haiku

oddly relaxing
to watch someone work so hard
bustling bumblebee

#haiku

and when I awoke
rolled up poems corked in hull's holes
kept my craft afloat

#haiku #micropoetry

empty promises
the horizon's heat lightning
brings no relief

#haiku

hidden industry
a clinging mist reveals the
subtle spiderwebs

#haiku

Closeup of a day lily bloom; the petals are burgundy trimmed in white. The center is yellow, and the stamens have yellow stalks with purple heads.

First day lily bloom of the season. #flowers #daylily #photography

unexpected guest
your visit quick as your wings
summer hummingbird

#haiku

firefly dusk—
how brief the life
of a shooting star

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (fireflies)

full, closed summer buds,
color peeking through the edge:
anticipation

#haiku

wind blown trees
wild brush strokes painting
frames of memory

#haiku

anemic sunset
tinged with distant wildfire haze
and yet: dim fireflies

#haiku

A neighbor has a mulberry tree in their yard, and some of the branches overhang the sidewalk. I plucked a few in passing.

arching mulberries
somehow all the sweeter
for being stolen

#haiku #haibun

1st choice: composting; if not available...
2nd choice: aquamation (alkaline hydrolysis); if not available...
3rd choice: cremation

Ask A Mortician - Aquamation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbQT...

scaled log shaking apart under sunlight and heaving ground leaving place for life to rebound

#stunday #photography #EastCoastKin #haiku #micropoetry #PoetsOfBlueksy

lines inscribed
between an ending
and fresh starts

Counting waves, just one.
Breakers becoming and not.
One sea, countless shapes.

#haiku #Zen-Humanism #boundless #sea