summer midday
the street preacher pauses
to lick an ice cream

In my book, Rustle of bamboo leaves,
but first published in World Haiku Review,
Vol. 2, Issue 2, July 2002

holiday morning
shift from hell at work
trying to cool down

summer roof rack —
two bicycles, a surfboard,
and a rocking chair

(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

Maintain integrity
grey cell recovering
Summer Holiday

Genskab helheden
og aflaster hjernecellerne
sommerferie

Bach's Cello Suites
leave the room -
corn-stalks trembling

Just Chillin'

Lazy Afternoon

Yuki catching a quick nap

to play hard later

Solo

To silence, a thrush
Calls for her long-distant love
An endless solo

the morning heat comes
in a shroud of cloud today,
a summer in veil,
it spreads hidden and silent
like your caresses at dawn.

coming home at dawn
scarlet daylilly
greets me by the step

tired and running
like water
off a truck's back

the cool
of a sporting goods store
in July

Sway

move book, hit keys -
pendulum
swings

warm weekend-
extra long line in front of
Mr.Softee truck

fireflies dance
as the crickets sing
to the moon

summer haze

summer haze
everyone has gone away
open doorway

photo by lori bierly
words by mandy smith
© 2008

encouraged by the doorway prompt at One Single Impression

half the year gone

half the year gone
daisies and buttercups
soon to be mown

© 2008, gerald england

..

Baby birds leaving

Baby birds leaving
their nest today, hesitant.
What awaits us here?

* * *

Nyt lintulapset
lähtevät, epäröiden.
Mikä odottaa?

rabbit's
breakfast of daisies:
sunny-sides up

These strange woods
longing keeps us on the move.
Home. There yet?

* * *

Outoja metsiä
kaipaus pitää liikkeellä.
Koti. Perillä?

Milky Way -
a little stone in my left
rope-soled sandal

***

voie lactée -
un petit caillou
dans mon espadrille gauche

after the rain
red and white rose of sharon
drinks in the last drops

during the warm rain
seeing order emerging
from the chaos

a pine-kissed lily
under a veil of midgets;
on a pond’s mirror

summer reflection,
peeping between sun and cloud
--on a raindrop

listless -
watching grey clouds
do a jigsaw puzzle