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
Thursday, August 30, 2007
hot laundromat she speaks Korean I use hand gestures
new tendrils reach into thin air morning glory
end of summer different watering schedule another shift change
last days of summer — patches of gray in my five o’clock shadow
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
after the rain morning glories wrap around blooming mimosa
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
morning glories climb the dry sunflower stalks corn moon*
*American Indian name for the August full moon (today)
flash of yellow
a butterfly headbutts me
in my work break
.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
back from vaca lingering in the garden before going to work
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back from vaca packer stacatto over plant floor rhythms
I grasp my blanket while the world rolls over – daybreak already?
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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!)
August chill — a freight train speeds by
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
. 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.
["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]
a summer shower shivering the surface of the sea and all the colours darken in the rain
["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]
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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
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.
(
new moon- just a window light competes with the perseid shower
)
Monday, August 13, 2007
dawn - light moves across the curve of the apple
Sunday, August 12, 2007
lured by its scent, I bite into a peach before it is ripe
Saturday, August 11, 2007
pictures of Paris
on the wall, fading~
southern heat
immovable dawn ~ the slow movement of shadows
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aube immobile ~ le lent mouvement des ombres
Friday, August 10, 2007
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
Thursday, August 9, 2007
vacation eve last minute gardening ret to pack my stuff
Floating World Japanese Festival with Trevor Haddrell Bristol Floating Harbour September 2003
the catch gets harder -- dusk levels distinctions between grass and frog
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
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.)
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.]
If you'd like to join us in celebrating summer 2007 in haiku please let me - alison.williams@virgin.net - know.
(That means send me an email. Some people have asked to join in comments on other blogs, but that doesn't give me your email address to send an invitation to!)