Sunday, March 31, 2019

Tanka


In Memory of Joseph
09/04/1932 to 03/31/2018

a fork in the road
how often we hear that phrase
yet, in my life
there was a single path
traveled for years with you

Modern English Tanka

Monday, March 25, 2019

Spring Haiku


jacaranda dusk
a haze of petals
falling with the light



mountain stream
gurgling over rocks . . .
my feet are numb

Presence
Haiku Highlights

Saturday, March 2, 2019

Haibun


                                                   


   THE WEAVER 

Hand woven rugs at a craft fair.  The weaver, a Navajo woman.  Her dark skin, barely wrinkled, yet she doesn’t appear too young.  Something about the way she moves, the steady calmness that comes with age and experience.  Her long black hair done in a braid down her back, like a thick rope, reaching below her waist.  With slender hands she weaves skeins of wool into motifs imagined and actual, garnered from ancestral traditions and folk lore.


a saguaro shadow– 

sunset colors stretch
across  desert sands

Contemporary Haibun Online

Sunday, February 24, 2019

Haiku




a fallen tree
more sky revealed
in the woods

ice crusted snow
the crunch. . . 
of mocha toffee

Pipe Dreams
A Hundred Gourds

Sunday, February 17, 2019

Haiga





                                               





                                                       
Haigaonline, Rock Challenge

Friday, February 8, 2019

Tanka Sequence


Saturday

alone together
each in a separate room
a desert apart
the dryness moves closer
into thoughts and feelings


mixed intentions
confusion in our thoughts
creates an impasse
a hot meal eaten
 in cold silence

words chosen with care
soft and harmless with no bite
we slip past the pain
the unspoken promise
of a return to normal

Ribbons

Haiku

  weekend getaway coffee on the veranda with a gecko Sense  & Sensibility