mostly cloudy

First day of summer vacation, and a new issue of Modern Haiku to enjoy.

mostly cloudy
I add another emoticon
to the email

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distant starlight
the soft glow
of my electronic devices

yielding

I’m pleased to have a couple of haiku in the June issue of A Hundred Gourds. In keeping with their policy of not reposting our works for a period of 40 days after they are first published in AHG, I will post my haiku from the March issue instead.

winter solitude
the click of my fingers
on the keyboard

yielding
to a sudden impulse
butterfly in the wind

end of summer
the dog’s bully stick
chewed down to a nub

sparrow’s song

sparrow’s song
the tree she planted
about to leaf

Mariposa #28, Spring/Summer 2013

open circle

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

open circle
always room
for one more 

And amazingly, that concludes the 31-day challenge. Where did March go??

tabula rasa

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

tabula rasa
waiting for the story
to unfold

en pointe

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

en pointe
dancing to music
only she hears

first light

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

first light
the sound of one bird
then many

another anniversary

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

another anniversary
stitching our past
to our future

keeping vigil

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

keeping vigil
all through the night
fields of poppies

our last goodbye

our last goodbye
pine trees shrouded
by the mist

(tied for 1st place, Caribbean Kigo Kukai #40, March 2013)