Rusted Swing Set

Waiting with cupped hands 
For the children in the sand 
Not to want to stand. 

#haiku #poetry

The rain’s iron hooves 
On the corrugated roof 
Beating as we moved. 

#haiku #poetry

Another autumn —
Even the Lego flowers
Losing their petals.

#haiku #poetry

A cat’s 🐱 paw prints on a deck.

Arch leaves
paw prints—
first frost

#haiku #cats #nature

Stone steps ascend 
The mountain where the Buddhist 
Temple would have been. 

#haiku #poetry

porch breeze
my mind
creaks open

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt (porch / breeze)

bare feet-
the floorboards know
my weight by heart
#haiku #poetry

The heat was stupefying, and we debated seeing the famous Colosseum. But it dwarfed even the assembled crowd and we milled around, robbed of human scale. I closed my eyes and imagined the tidal waves of sound crashing down on the gladiators, baying for enough blood to set a champion free.

#vss365

With nowhere to start
And so many stars it’s hard
To connect the dots.

#haiku #poetry

An example of pareidolia in a burn barrel. A ‘face’ emerges from the fire.

from twisting flames
a ‘face’ surfaces,
stirring sympathy

#haiku #pareidolia

Above the church
The sun hesitating
At the crossroads

#haiku #poetry

Evening in Tucson —
The Spanish mission’s shadow
Climbing up the hill.

#haiku #poetry

The empty pages 
Of an open notebook waving 
Like a white flag. 

#senryu #haiku #poetry

My to-be-read pile —
The awful realization
Of Fortunato.

#senryu #haiku #poetry

The headstones’ shadows 
Open into the green grass 
Like yawning archways. 

#haiku #poetry

Now the sirens sing 
After you’ve already been 
Dashed against the rocks. 

#haiku #senryu #poetry

Another bottle
Narrowly avoids
The cobwebbed wine rack.

#haiku #senryu #poetry

Through Halloween night I'm going to post a series of spooky haiku inspired by Eldritch horror.

I turn off the light-
the darkness
is already waiting
#haiku #poetry #Halloween

Caterpillar —
A train whistles
In the distance

#poetry #haiku

Never learning
My lesson —
The breakers

#poetry #haiku

A bat flaps its wings —
The pale ghost of a baseball
Floats up to the light.

#poetry #haiku

The Grand Canyon —
A gopher snake winding
Across the trail.

#poetry #haiku

Behind the worn bar — 
A crowded skyline 
Of gleaming bottles. 

#poetry #haiku #senryu

The city at dusk —
The serpent of endless traffic
In its death throes.

#poetry #haiku

Sneaky jasmine vines —
Trying to get to Heaven
Ahead of time.

#poetry #haiku

Not a breath of wind —
The pinwheels in the graveyard
Somehow still spinning.

#poetry #haiku

Both of my neighbors 
Industriously banging 
Hammers like gavels. 

#poetry #haiku

Pallid roots trickle 
From a stump like the cold wax 
Of a spent candle. 

#poetry #haiku

Bubbles in a beer 
Rising to clouds of white foam: 
Rain going backwards. 

#poetry #haiku

Housefly in the chair 
Beside me; knitting a pair 
Of socks from the air. 

#poetry #haiku