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

User not found User error This page does not exist Error Error Try again This page maybe never existed Come back again… Bluesky #poetry

Reply to #Nietzsche Supposing that Truth is neither woman nor man but a mix of both then a trans person may come closest to its attainment #tankaThursday #tanka

at sunset the tree branches reach for enlightenement the same as we do #haiku

strike in the right place be the bell not the ringer resound with the truth #haiku great tanka by @pippaesque.bsky.social

When I lived in Cambodia, I taught at a village school near Angkor Wat, which was my student's playground. They showed me a temple in which, if you stood in the right place and hit your chest with your fist, the temple would ring like a bell.

visual tanka lies on the kitchen counter five lines of blank verse a j jill package my wife wants returned #tanka #haiga

the extravagance of a magnolia’s bloom spring trove of riches #haiku #gardening

after the bunny the tulip still does its best to stay in the game #haiku #gardening #spring

Gardening as art Calls for premeditation Mind’s eye precedes shovel #haiku #gardening #haiga #spring

I am the river never one or the same time flows through my veins #haiku full poem here: lampoetry.blogspot.com/2023/08/i-am...

double horizon through a crack in the window the sun keeps shining #haiku

@bramble-wisp.bsky.social primordial blossom of 100 million years eternal yet brief #haiku #spring #haiga

absorbing color the mist acting as blotter held its breath green #haiku #haiga

in these April days sacred is the earth warming to life’s suggestion #haiku #spring #haiga

The daffodils draped in their morning gowns of sunlight from the east #haiku #spring #haiga

Sunday morning calm Christianity’s bequest In a world at war #haiku #haiga

a cardinal proud up and down he bobs his chest drinking the puddle #haiku #spring

the daffodils bloom in a cluster of three stems just like a haiku #haiku #haiga #spring #gardening

From my new blog: Compost Mentis: all about the mix compostreporter.blogspot.com/2026/04/comp...

old footbridge— the creek keeps the plank I didn’t trust #haiku #poetr

Note to WS: the world is big and small enough to make its poems continuously #haiku

Spring delivers a big adrenaline hit to all living things everything begins growing even the bare tree branches hold the last light of day #tanka #spring #haiga

after a soaking rain a new carpet makes its claim to a neighbor’s lawn #haiku #haiga

a magnolia in spring is a galaxy unto itself each branch holds a cluster of stars #haiku #tanka #spring #haiga

Trees speak together in the early morning light every chance they get #haiku #haiga great spring photo by @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social

a sure sign of spring muddy boots on the front porch remaking the beds #haiku #haiga #spring #gardening

the chorus of reeds sang to the weeping willow come taste of the stream #haiku #haiga

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth

the trackless tracks leading to the gateless gate empty train of thought #haiku #meditation #haiga

Remember the Colin Powell dictum about Iraq? You break it you own it. If Trump has a strategy that must be it - if he can just break the world economy then he can add the world to his chain of properties!

course of energy one body to another ebbing and flowing #haiku #haiga

like moon and the tide hand and mind move in tandem energy flowing #haiku compostreporter.blogspot.com/2026/04/when...

let winged carriers bring petals from the cherry tree to adorn our bower #haiku #haiga

fata morgana let us arise and go there together on wing #haiku

a small cabin build there of clay and wattles made take flight to Innisfree! #haiku

bloom rises shadow falls by light we are drawn or sent to our just reward #haiku #haiga #poetry

Trump turns Marx on his head His first term was a pure farce Tragedy follows #haiku #senryu #KarlMarx #Trump

I’ve eloped with a tree and we’ve settled on the plains to raise a copse of our own #haiku #haiga

bloom starts in tree tops easier the light to reach as thought comes head first #haiku #haiga #spring

it no longer takes a nor’easter to submerge the marsh on fourth neck #haiku #haiga