Summer Haiku 2007

I volunteer!

2007-09-01T17:02:00.000-07:00

autumn thoughts
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bye Isabel

New site is up!
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2007-09-01T16:55:00.000-07:00

urban garden
fern clinging
to brick

secret messages
door & sewer
graffiti

2007-08-31T21:45:00.000-07:00

end of summer
mulching, deadheading and pruning
during quiet morninigs

Summer Haiku is closing

2007-08-31T00:29:00.000-07:00

It's time for Summer Haiku to come to a close. Sadly I will not be able to host an Autumn Haiku this year, but hope that someone else will volunteer to carry on the tradition!

waving goodbye
to a new friend -
summer's end

Alison

2007-08-30T20:48:00.001-07:00

hot laundromat
she speaks Korean
I use hand gestures

2007-08-30T20:43:00.000-07:00

new tendrils
reach into thin air
morning glory

2007-08-30T14:09:00.000-07:00

end of summer
different watering schedule
another shift change

2007-08-30T06:22:00.000-07:00

last days of summer —
patches of gray
in my five o’clock shadow

2007-08-29T14:27:00.000-07:00

after the rain
morning glories wrap around
blooming mimosa

2007-08-28T20:16:00.000-07:00

morning glories climb
the dry sunflower stalks
corn moon*

*American Indian name for the August full moon (today)

Joy

2007-08-28T15:08:00.000-07:00

after the shower
temperature drops
to 80F!

2007-08-28T14:14:00.000-07:00

in the fourth watch
light from lunar eclipse
bathes a burning bush

2007-08-28T09:30:00.000-07:00

eclipsed moon
the palm sized dog
touches my heart

[Cross posted to One Deep Breath; this is a dreamku, see my blog for A DREAMKU PRIMER; Image: The Three of Wands in The Voyager Tarot]

2007-08-27T14:33:00.000-07:00

summer returns-
brown tipped grass
in neighbors' yards

2007-08-27T03:40:00.001-07:00

2007-08-25T19:57:00.001-07:00

cicadas
in the last movement~
summer symphony

2007-08-25T12:20:00.000-07:00

morning stroll
the sounds of dry leaves
before autumn

2007-08-25T10:11:00.000-07:00

3 AM
weeding and watering
before weekend shift

2007-08-25T09:31:00.001-07:00

evening light ~
the blue transparency
of a dragonfly

***

lumière du soir ~
la transparence bleue
d'une libellule

2007-08-25T09:23:00.000-07:00

dog days —
I keep killing
the same mosquito

2007-08-24T14:52:00.000-07:00

after the rain
extra weeding around
pink hibiscus blooms

2007-08-23T10:47:00.000-07:00

deep space burn
I reach for my ultra-high
sun protection factor

Anyone who knows any budding poets:
space haiku competition for under sixteens!

2007-08-23T04:08:00.000-07:00

flash of yellow
a butterfly headbutts me
in my work break

.

2007-08-22T14:53:00.000-07:00

back from vaca
lingering in the garden
before going to work

~~~~~

back from vaca
packer stacatto
over plant floor rhythms

2007-08-22T06:18:00.000-07:00

I grasp my blanket
while the world rolls over –
daybreak already?

~ ~ ~

Tracing
the day's climb up the dunes –
birds and their songs

~ ~ ~

Cutting the deck,
sea from sky –
the sun's first light

(cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

2007-08-22T05:27:00.000-07:00

August chill —
a freight train
speeds by

2007-08-21T11:40:00.000-07:00

.
strawberries space-food
the summer heat thaws them
and me

As part of my National Poetry Day (U.K.) commission, 
I have been testing NASA authorised space food, 
and the strawberries are real but spacified.  
Strange but tasty.

2007-08-20T14:48:00.000-07:00

wind squall ~
the fountain changes
its tempo

***

coup de vent ~
la fontaine change
de tempo

2007-08-20T09:11:00.001-07:00

mobile beauty
orchid
in delivery van

the mountains

2007-08-18T14:17:00.000-07:00

the mountains
are lost in the mist
beyond greenery

photo: lori bierly
words: mandy smith

a follow on to Roswilla's ku

2007-08-18T10:57:00.000-07:00

["beyond these flat tracks the mountains" -- words were one of my contributions to the Haiku Train currently moving forward at One Deep Breath, the sketch (such as it is :-D) is mine, too]

2007-08-18T03:41:00.000-07:00

a summer shower
shivering the surface
of the sea
and all the colours
darken in the rain

2007-08-18T01:16:00.001-07:00

school's back -
street
of tiny dramas

2007-08-16T18:21:00.000-07:00

sweet separation:
flesh from pit,
dripping juice

(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

2007-08-16T18:18:00.000-07:00

that peach,
not ready yesterday,
was ripe today

(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

2007-08-16T14:46:00.000-07:00

tarty splash
homemade
lemonade

2007-08-16T13:19:00.000-07:00

suburban yard
reveals a universe
weeding on my knees

[one of my contributions to the Haiku Train currently chugging along at One Deep Breath]

summer over

2007-08-15T20:30:00.000-07:00

summer over
at the end of the bridge
no looking back

photo: emily lin
words: mandy smith

2007-08-15T10:25:00.000-07:00

["summer of rainstorms greener in between" .... 1990's photo by Roswila of a 150 year-old weeping beech tree that is survived now by her off-spring]

2007-08-14T21:33:00.000-07:00

Do you remember the night in the park, years ago, when our futures took a different direction? We saw the moon, the one I see now, look down at us. Even though its shape and color has changed so many times, its real face never has - nor have ours...
.
shadows spread
from the old oak tree~
summer night

2007-08-14T18:11:00.000-07:00

cold paradise
first taste of
Hansen's Sno-Blitz

Sno(w) balls or sno(w) cones are made with crushed ice and sweet syrup.

Hansen's ice is super soft. It absorbs the syrup better than any other type of crushed ice.

It's refreshing to eat this and helps you forget about the heat.

2007-08-14T09:22:00.000-07:00

(

new moon-
just a window light competes
with the perseid shower

)

2007-08-13T03:30:00.000-07:00

dawn -
light moves across
the curve of the apple

2007-08-12T20:05:00.000-07:00

lured by its scent,
I bite into a peach
before it is ripe

2007-08-11T21:51:00.001-07:00

pictures of Paris

on the wall, fading~

southern heat

2007-08-11T00:06:00.000-07:00

immovable dawn ~
the slow movement
of shadows

***

aube immobile ~
le lent mouvement
des ombres

2007-08-10T09:57:00.001-07:00

Last winter, I was walking barefoot on my wooden floor, while everyone else in this blog was freezing to death. Well, I am now the one not enjoying the weather and envying the rest of the group!

under the tree
stillness
hot heavy air

two heat sources
sun
hot flash

refreshing
reward
cold shower

Hades on Earth
opening
car door

sun bleach
caladium's burgundy veins
very pale pink

companion
half gone
water bottle

2007-08-09T10:43:00.000-07:00

vacation eve
last minute gardening
ret to pack my stuff

For mmm

2007-08-09T05:53:00.000-07:00

image by Trevor Haddrell

Floating World Japanese Festival
with Trevor Haddrell
Bristol Floating Harbour September 2003

2007-08-09T05:02:00.001-07:00

the catch gets harder --
dusk levels distinctions
between grass and frog

2007-08-08T19:30:00.000-07:00

found treasure
in parking lot
Chucky Cheese token

(Chucky Cheese is a pizza chain store. After the children eat, they can play games with the tokens.)

2007-08-08T16:58:00.000-07:00

rooves, trees, cars mixed up
a tornado buzzes
The Big Apple

[An EF2 category tornado -- winds up to 111 mph -- hit Brooklyn (New York City, New York) early this morning. There's no record of one in Brooklyn ever before. In Queens -- where I live, sort of northeast of the area hit -- the storm was a fast and amazingly furious downpour with a great deal of lightning.]

for Josiah

2007-08-08T03:54:00.000-07:00

summer fog —
the recruiter’s shiny new car
pulls up to the house

2007-08-07T13:48:00.000-07:00

steamy morning
wilting with the garden
as I do my chores

2007-08-07T07:48:00.000-07:00

tendril by tendril,
the wisteria closes
my garden gate

(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

2007-08-06T14:18:00.000-07:00

full weekend
50 cent plants at roadside
two flowerpots full

2007-08-06T13:51:00.001-07:00

stone bench -
the snail gives up to me
the other half

***

banc de pierre -
l'escargot me cède
l'autre moitié

2007-08-06T13:46:00.000-07:00

[Posted as a response to One Deep Breath's prompt this week of "evening." Sketch is also by me.]

2007-08-06T03:35:00.001-07:00

child's face at the window -
morning glories
filling with rain

2007-08-05T06:33:00.001-07:00

wet forecast -
snail swaggers
out for the day

sultry days

2007-08-04T19:45:00.000-07:00

sultry days awaiting a wind that must surely come

words: mandy smith
photo: phill deason

2007-08-04T12:17:00.000-07:00

suncaught -
a beer and the barmaid
from another pub

topical haiku even the wine blushes

.

bright heat

2007-08-04T12:12:00.001-07:00

wedding party-
inbetween the brightness
a grounded white rose

2007-08-03T20:06:00.000-07:00

wide open window
a dream of flying over
tossing green trees

2007-08-03T14:32:00.000-07:00

in the sky
and on the hill
the same cloud

***

dans le ciel
et sur la colline
le même nuage

2007-08-03T10:00:00.000-07:00

THE EMPRESS (III)*

*from my Taiga Tarot, a deck-in-progress.

2007-08-03T09:55:00.000-07:00

summer habit

very early commute
watering the garden
at 4 AM

2007-08-02T14:16:00.000-07:00

during shift from hell

great dialougue lines

for onging story

2007-08-02T10:35:00.001-07:00

patterns of light
floating through the trees -
splash of an apple falling

2007-08-02T06:34:00.001-07:00

first brambles
bright eyes
gaze at me from the bush

2007-08-01T14:04:00.000-07:00

how many years ago?
the taste of a cherry
just like this one

2007-08-01T14:01:00.000-07:00

morning gardening...
planting rose of sharon
for next year's privacy

2007-08-01T10:39:00.000-07:00

Empire State Building
he asks if I'm a tourist
as I gaze up

2007-08-01T06:14:00.000-07:00

August —
the dog’s breath
against my leg

2007-07-31T14:19:00.000-07:00

change of shift
children serenading me
as I waken

2007-07-31T13:31:00.001-07:00

Upper, right panel reads:
still old water
elephant ears
cradle raindrops.

2007-07-31T05:17:00.001-07:00

power lines

2007-07-30T18:30:00.000-07:00

power lines beneath summer clouds children play

words & photo © gerald england, 2007

prompted by the "feathered friends" theme at one deep breath

another photograph of this sculpture can be seen at Ackworth born, gone West

2007-07-30T16:43:00.000-07:00

summer rain...

may december romance

severed too quickly

2007-07-30T10:26:00.000-07:00

moving back and forth
to stay in the shade
in this hot day
unable to ignore
the motion of time

2007-07-30T07:02:00.000-07:00

staring -
black eyes
sunflower's center

2007-07-30T06:20:00.001-07:00

my blind neighbour
fingers each new bloom
...and smiles

2007-07-29T19:30:00.000-07:00

startled awake
it's only thunder
blessing moon*

*one name for the August full moon

2007-07-29T10:02:00.000-07:00

the graphite
in an overcast summer sky-
iTunes from my desktop

2007-07-29T09:47:00.001-07:00

wedding plans-
two of my future in-laws
help me keep sane

2007-07-29T08:30:00.000-07:00

extra innings —
the dog groans
in its sleep

2007-07-27T18:28:00.000-07:00

teen boy bike riding –
no shoes, no hands, no helmet –
big grin

2007-07-27T17:04:00.000-07:00

after SFH*
trenching new garden bed
to find center

after the rain
sanity washes through
the plant floor

*shift from heck

2007-07-27T10:50:00.000-07:00

small white starred weeds
beneath the tall flowers
my aching back

2007-07-26T20:04:00.001-07:00

windless night —
a cloud of gnats
all around me

2007-07-26T18:24:00.000-07:00

rough shift at plant
stopping for some fresh flowers
on the way home

2007-07-26T11:07:00.000-07:00

cats cradle
braiding her long fine hair
in humid weather

* * * *

pounding from downstairs
the handsome handyman
likes to sweat

2007-07-26T05:02:00.000-07:00

across the leaves
a two-headed shadow -
squirrel raids the orchard

2007-07-25T17:42:00.001-07:00

morning jaunt

finding another city park

during taxi duty

2007-07-24T14:37:00.000-07:00

fallen petal -
brightens
a dull duck

2007-07-23T17:24:00.001-07:00

summer sick day

looking out at the garden

wishing I could eat

2007-07-23T01:08:00.001-07:00

silence shattered -
a snail underfoot
in the long grass

2007-07-22T20:39:00.000-07:00

cool summer night —
I leave another voicemail
for my daughter

fireflies

2007-07-22T19:27:00.000-07:00

river's fireflies
battery operated
bicycle lights

2007-07-22T07:41:00.001-07:00

the day brightens
a sunflower peeps out
from behind a hollyhock