in starlight entangled the ineluctable lure of glimmering hope #haiku

December twilight Imparts its mixed messaging of sorrow and hope #haiku

cross pollination one species to another passing the torch of life #haiku

From the minaret a call to prayer cried out to passing hummingbirds #haiku #gardening #floralfriday

there’s no denying water”s sense of urgency to reach lower ground #haiku

Winter solstice here And the garden still giving us Leafy reds and greens #haiku #gardening

@fafo-poets-society.bsky.social prompter or promptee you must choose which one to be and act in accord #haiku #dailyprompt #prompt

words twisted beyond all recognition into unspeakable shape #haiku

The vanishing point is rumored to be encroaching in the twilight hour #haiku #senryu

All the world’s a stage No entrances … no exits No front or back stage #haiku #senryu

Note to EEC: Most likely the universe has no center or axis. Love’s role in the cosmos might be more akin to gravity or the force of attraction.

touch is an abyss as well as a net that holds us in abeyance #haiku

We grow old … lose limbs But we compartmentalize And keep growing upward True of trees and just As well you and me #haiku #tanka #senryu

A few indisputable truths: lampoetry.blogspot.com/2019/10/two-... #PoemsAbout #Money

Reply to Rimbaud: Sun’s all powerful love derives from the fusion of two atoms into one #haiku

@xlix.me - thought you might like this one: words are like icebergs so much of what they mean lies beneath the surface #haiku #senryu #zenmeme

@ysl.bsky.social Read your piece in Salon. You have such great range as a writer. Your voice carries moral authority from poetry to prose. Great job!

Atlas holds the Earth But who will uphold Heaven At the end of day #haiku

Lady Liberty Consorting with immigrants Under observation #haiku photo by S. Berkowitz

Lady Liberty Placed under observation For strange behavior #haiku photo by S. Berkowitz

winter’s story writ across the landscape using disappearing ink #haiku

bare trees of winter holding sky in abstinence teetotaling light #haiku

winter’s dowagers last summer’s hydrangeas with their withered bouquets #haiku

A Phoenix rising Resurrection from the rocks Along a barren shore #haiku

Snowfall all day long Been outside twice shoveling Extra socks to keep warm #haiku #senryu

You are your best poem So Wallace Steven’s must be The Snowman after all #haiku #poetry #wallacestevens #firstsnowfall

#tanka for the first snowfall the sound of snowfall snowflakes dance their minuet each one destined in a six sided lattice to find proper place

A burden today Tomorrow may prove a boon The things we carry Someday may carry us Forward in return #TankaThursday #TankaPoem #micropoetry #senryu

the illicit love of a dragon and a fly made me what I am #haiku

Meditation is when your train of thought pulls into the station for rest #haiku #senryu #meditation photo by O Winston Link

More snow tomorrow? I haven’t seen the forecast A doe’s questioning look #haiku

reply to WBY: first we taste the truth to see if we'll consume it or find it too bitter #haiku #senryu

A negative sun The shadow’s rays propagate Arced along the wall #haiku

Clear December sky The Pleiades rise out east Our Muses have arrived #haiku #senryu

Roxinante still waiting for Don Quixote to resume his quest #haiku

trees never give up from stumps new shoots emerge evangels of life #haiku #poetry

winter sleep not bleak stripped to the bare essentials trees dream lush and deep #haiku

winter conference of trees pleading with the sun to hurry on back #haiku

the wind brushes clouds across the canvas of sky sunset adds pigment #haiku

a turquoise pendant dangling from an endless chain suffused by sunset #haiku

#haiku for #Rilke Ethereal swan sending ripples far beyond through Time gliding on see the Rilke poem this responds to here: lampoetry.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-...

Leaning like James Dean  Against the wall at sunset,  These truant sunbeams.  #haiku #poetry #senryu

Note to Anne: that fundamental opacity also refers to the place where the living spirit resides deep inside a cave

One day the shadows and trees agreed to trade place Much confusion ensued No one could be sure Which one was which #tanka #shortstory

A lakeside cottage where we lived snug as two birds in their ice wattled nest #haiku

inside the snow globe with a shake and a jiggle the world is remade #haiku

nimbus of delight all the stops of the gray scale played through the night #haiku #moon

Note to WCW: winter much less sure these days, freezing sporadic without conviction leaving trees to sleep less deep fretting the while spring’s arrival #haiku #tanka

willow weeps no more but springs into action alive to the storm #haiku

The Earth new born where life takes tenuous hold in between the cracks #haiku