life’s slow steady drip the plumbing supply store is without an answer #haiku #senryu

bleeding out at dawn in need of a transfusion the day to endure #haiku

#Paumonak stretches out along the evening sky paying tribute to itself #haiku

flowers keep growing and the petals keep falling all over the lawn #haiku #gardening

the poem comes first before vocalization feeling precedes words #haiku #senryu #poetry

Wherefore have I been provided for by such extravagant means as two straight rows of beans #haiku #senryu #meditation #thoreau

in the dentist's chair numbed but not oblivious consciousness blinking #haiku #senryu

#haiku for the month of May: from Sakura to Samara the petals fall Samsara is strewn all over the lawn #meditation #buddhism #haiga #gardening

Tonight’s salad first kissed by the rain then blessed by the sun #haiku #gardening

for George Oppen: the business of a poet - to sit with a cat in your lap composing #haiku

to be vaulted to a new energy orbit where pain becomes gain #haiku #senryu

disconnected thoughts the grain of the photograph threshold of emptiness #haiku #meditation see also this poem by Han Shan lampoetry.blogspot.com/2020/09/medi...

crickets try to pass messages from other worlds all spring and summer long once we begin sleeping with the window open #tanka

reply to Mark Strand: be part of the field we are all just another to somebody else #haiku #senryu

amid fall’s debris spring’s plenitude comes forth from compost, earth is reborn nature reuses all her parts decay drives new growth #tanka #NaTankaMo #MayTanka #debris compostreporter.blogspot.com?m=1

my best spring poems take root in the garden know them by their fruits #haiku #gardening

pouring down from on high came a torrent of green light to replenish earth #haiku

This spring I’m writing #haiku in the garden counting seeds in three rows #gardening #spring

The death rattle continues with Apprentice reruns for all eternity #haiku #senryu

New leaf lays limp Chlorophyll unsure itself what it’s supposed to do #haiku #haiga #spring

The old cherry tree made it through another year Sakura encore #haiku #haiga #sakura #spring

shadow blossoms too in the late afternoon all across the lawn #haiku #haiga #spring

a May Day alert the asparagus spears rise from earthen silos #haiku #MayDay #gardening

a little warm pond is primordial soup where life first began #haiku #haiga

In waning daylight the south of France can be almost anywhere #haiku #haiga

Rejuvenation at the moment of conception the interface between old and new hate all this blather about longevity and bio hacking but there is a beautiful idea discussed in this article www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/m...

Moon over ocean A trail of luminosity Sea echoing sky #haiku #haiga

put down your trowel it’s time for the hyacinth to dance a solo #haiku #gardening #haiga #flowers

Oh my floating life Do not save love for things Throw things to the flood #haiku #Niedecker

forest as fractal advances as each leaf unfurls a net to catch light #haiku

Crow magnum Feathered aviator Of the open field

hey please look this way the fuchsia shouts out to a hummingbird #haiku

lips are the portal to an interior realm where intimately dwell #haiku #haiga #senryu

two crows engaged In social discourse while standing on separate branches #haiku #haiga

daffodils speak to me with more clarity these days fluid in their verse #haiku #spring #gardening

On the eightfold path I lost my way and became Nobody other #haiku #buddhism

Celebrate the Earth every day as a matter of personal habit #haiku #EarthDay #composting #gardening read the full blog post here: compostreporter.blogspot.com/2026/04/eart...

the line in the leaves from the wind of passing cars a #Rothko painting #haiku

Soon the haze of green and we will name the shades. Jade and emerald, sage and hunter. There will be a moment when it is all new. Leaves unfurled and wind danced. Then we will stop noticing until they turn to gold and we pay attention again. Rust and copper, bronze and crimson. #vss365 jade

on an azure sea taking its cue from the sun the crescent moon sets #haiku Luscious photo LuCi L!

Jupiter as seen by Hokusai

the stamens tremble awaiting the arrival of a blue swallowtail #haiku #ButterflyWeek #Gardening

Reply to Roberto: Metaphors are nature’s rhyming device the language of things #haiku

Swept snow, Li Po, by dawn’s 40-watt moon to the road that hies to office away from home #tanka by Lorine #Niedecker

making a new friend immeasurable pleasure lorine’s granite pail #haiku #poetry #Niedecker

cloud reenactment of the first day of creation sorting light and dark #haiku

A dance of seduction The tree writhes before the sky Hoping to capture light’s Lasting attention #haiku or #tanka neither or both

A torch of color being passed along From one magnolia Shedding white petals To another getting Ready to flame #tanka #spring #haiga

way out in queens a congregation of shadows gathers for prayers #haiku #haiga #nyc

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