blustery day

For the He Doodles, You ‘Ku challenge, on Aubrie Cox’s Yay Words blog:

blustery day
remembering when we were
very young

 

(response to doodle by HM Yuan) 

meditation

the second our instructor begins her guided meditation, my eyelids begin to droop. why is it so much easier to fall asleep on my yoga mat, than in my bed at night?

mild

the weather is so mild, when i take the dog out for his midday walk, that i have to take off my hat and gloves. that can only mean one thing!

 

white picket fence

For the He Doodles, You ‘Ku challenge, on Aubrie Cox’s Yay Words blog:

white picket fence
the grass really is greener
on the other side

(response to doodle by HM Yuan) 

being

7:00 p.m.- as i begin to write, i realize that so far, today has been more about doing than being. time to change that.

butterfly wind

For the He Doodles, You ‘Ku challenge, on Aubrie Cox’s Yay Words blog:

butterfly wind
counting the days
until summer

(response to doodle by HM Yuan) 

grandmother

she tells me she is going to be a grandmother in March. a friend of mine a grandmother– i can’t quite wrap my mind around that.

Windfall

Windfall, the anthology from Haiku Northwest’s 2012 Seabeck Haiku Getaway, has arrived, and it’s beautiful! Thanks to Connie Hutchison, Ruth Yarrow, Dianne Garcia, and the members of Haiku Northwest that helped put it together. Every poet was allowed to submit up to five haiku to this anthology, from which two were selected to appear.

scavenger hunt
I fill up my bag
with the outdoors

Interestingly, I was just going through my stack of handouts from Seabeck the other day, and I found I still had the bag of items that inspired this haiku. It contained a big leaf maple leaf, a stick covered in lichen, a maple seed pod, a partly eaten pine cone, and a pebble.

deeper
into autumn
the winding path

I didn’t realize this one was also a hay(na)ku until now. The results of the kukai were also included in the anthology. I was in a two-way tie for 3rd place, with this one:

leaf fall
I text to say
I’ve arrived

I’m already looking forward to next year’s Seabeck retreat!

mud

rain. mud. rain. mud. rain. mud.

locked in the past

For the He Doodles, You ‘Ku challenge, on Aubrie Cox’s Yay Words blog:

locked in the past
dandelion seeds trapped
in a spider’s web

(response to doodle by HM Yuan)