Summer Haiku 2008

Autumn Haiku 2008

2008-08-30T15:55:00.003-05:00

Hey folks! Just a reminder, please e-mail me at songofnovember@gmail.com to be included in Fall Haiku 2008!!

Click HERE to see the Autumn Haiku 2008 site.

2008-08-30T04:40:00.000-05:00

bronze tipped grass
bent with dew

2008-08-29T21:02:00.001-05:00

the leaf's chewed edge releases the moon

Late Summer

2008-08-29T16:41:00.000-05:00

Clouds drifting slowly
through the sunny blue sea
late summer breeze
warms my heart and bone
in a peaceful moment.

2008-08-29T15:59:00.002-05:00

blood on the pillow -
the mosquito
of my dream

***

sang sur l'oreiller -
le moustique
de mon rêve

Summer Haiku 2008 shutting down a little early

2008-08-29T13:41:00.003-05:00

running away from
the fickle guy -
Gustav

Hi Everyone,
This site will shut down earlier than scheduled: on Saturday, August 30, in the afternoon, instead of September 1st.

I am preparing to evacuate before Tropical Storm Gustav makes landfall. My tentative plan is to drive from New Orleans to Hot Springs, Arkansas.

Right now, the co-administrator, Steve, is busy setting up the Autumn site, so he won't be taking over the Summer one. He has enough to do right now, plus if Hanna heads his way, he might also have evacuation plans.

It's been a pleasure to haiku with you. I hope to participate more in the Autumn.

Isabel

2008-08-29T12:42:00.000-05:00

again, she pauses
in front of him
in her new sports bra
his eyes remain focused
on his book

2008-08-29T03:05:00.001-05:00

morning jaunt
single yellow rose
waves in the breeze

2008-08-28T13:35:00.003-05:00

early
morning tea in bed ~
she stirs

2008-08-28T04:37:00.001-05:00

tea party
under the linden tree ~
snails in our shoes

2008-08-28T03:56:00.000-05:00

midnight shift
stopped by the smell of rain
at open bay doors

Autumn Haiku 2008

2008-08-27T16:07:00.006-05:00

Hello one and all! With such wonderful works of expression abounding, we have decided to help Isabel out with the 2008 Autumn Haiku site!

To be invited to this blog, send your:

your email address
your nom de plume
a link to your blog or website

to Steve at songofnovember@gmail.com

If you participated in the previous seasonal blog, and all the information is the same, just let Steve know that fact.

If you don't receive an invitation, check your TRASH or BULK or SPAM mailbox, in case the invitation ended up in those folders.

You will need to register with Blogger in order to contribute to the blog. You can register with your email address; you don't need to get a gmail address.

This blog is open to all haiku poets! Please submit your FAMILY-FRIENDLY haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, or haibun.

You can also submit photos or drawings to enhance our experience of reading your one-breath thoughts!

Artwork or photographs should be the original work of the contributor. If not, it is the contributor's responsibility to ensure that they have permission to use the work.

ALL POSTS WILL BE BOLD AND IN RED. If you decide to use another color, please make sure that your text doesn't disappear into the background.

The only requirement for posting is that there should be an AUTUMN theme.

Postings/day: 3 maximum.

This blog will last from September 1, 2008, and end on December 20th.

Here's looking forward to Autumns wonders!!
All the best,
Steve - Administrator and Alan - Co-Administrator.

Autumn, turning

2008-08-27T05:12:00.001-05:00

With a fluttering
Canada geese turn south and
Ginkgo leaves turn gold

2008-08-27T05:09:00.001-05:00

autumn blowing in -
leaves
stiffening

2008-08-27T03:39:00.000-05:00

morning commute-
mimosa leaves uncurl
and welcome the day

2008-08-27T00:56:00.000-05:00

Gathering swallows -
I gave up summer
before it ended.

2008-08-26T14:45:00.002-05:00

My friend, Juliet P. went to the Audubon Zoo Insecterium this past Sunday. She was inspried to write:

fitting in
moving about
ants

surrounded by insects
swarms of
children

little pests
here and there
whiny children

2008-08-26T11:09:00.003-05:00

spider
in the corner
ran out

(Poet-in-Residence blogspot now has a review of John McDonald's haiku book - The Throu-Gaun Chiel)

2008-08-26T05:00:00.001-05:00

last days of summer
chanmpagne grapes in the market
mums starting to bloom

TWO MOONS

2008-08-26T01:38:00.000-05:00

Two full moons
and the brightest mars:
summer end

--R.K.SINGH

Two moons
so far away
yet so near
like rain landing gently
on my open arms

--R.K.SINGH

Circles

2008-08-25T15:06:00.001-05:00

Summer Olympics competition
a four year circle
for the sake of the world
may it never be unbroken.

2008-08-24T20:56:00.001-05:00

clouds, wind and rain
takes my mood from august
to september

2008-08-24T18:56:00.003-05:00

gardening today
in front of blood red grass
black sedum blooming

Steve will be taking over

2008-08-24T11:21:00.003-05:00

Steve has agreed to become the Fall Administrator! Thank you.

He is in the process of creating the new blog. I am helping him transfer links over to the Fall site.

There will be another post soon, asking for emails, so he can send invitations.

*************************************************************************

Wanted: A c0-administrator
Job-check comments and delete spams, when Steve needs a break or goes on a short vacation.

Summer Olympics

2008-08-24T11:12:00.003-05:00

Summer Olympics
the world's best athletes
fiercely compete, but in peace
just for a few weeks reigns
sportsmanship

2008-08-24T09:12:00.002-05:00

in late summer sun
idle thoughts drift in warm air
-a bouncing tennis ball
back and forth in the distance,
echoes double game of dreams

Genesis

2008-08-23T08:05:00.001-05:00

For such as this ray
Of moonlight dusting your face
Were galaxies made

Leaning Toward Fall

2008-08-23T03:49:00.002-05:00

cool evenings
keeping fleece in the car
to rode home in

2008-08-23T02:12:00.001-05:00

summer shower -
I close my book
to breathe the rain

***

averse d'été -
je ferme mon livre
pour respirer la pluie

2008-08-22T13:22:00.001-05:00

eating one ripe peach
every day
until they're gone

2008-08-22T07:25:00.001-05:00

kingfisher's
blue streak -
no time for one breath even

2008-08-22T04:10:00.002-05:00

evening walk-
moonlight dancing on
freshly watered lawn

2008-08-21T15:11:00.001-05:00

one of these days now
at the mall, i'm sure i'll hear
some christmas carols

2008-08-21T14:55:00.000-05:00

winter moon
the wolf’s howl floats away

2008-08-21T11:27:00.014-05:00

Next to each other:
Thistle fluff--new Queen Anne's Lace--
Going and coming.

2008-08-21T03:09:00.000-05:00

trash day chore
hacking away at huge bush
to fill trash can

2008-08-20T17:44:00.000-05:00

rain -
from stream to cloud
the one water

Moment of truth

2008-08-20T14:25:00.001-05:00

Missing training wheels

sweat and anxiety

Daddy!!! Look at me!!!

2008-08-20T09:53:00.000-05:00

a tree branch adrift
all those tangled banks upstream
and yet you are here

(derived from the summer haiku 2008 header)

2008-08-20T03:48:00.001-05:00

trash day
new school supplies wrappings
overflow cans

2008-08-19T03:32:00.001-05:00

midsummer folly
passionate tango between
sun and rain clouds

2008-08-19T03:07:00.002-05:00

early ginko
shawl of morning glories
fill neighbor's fence

2008-08-19T02:12:00.002-05:00

on a gentle slope
beside a track
pale Cyclamen were trembling

2008-08-18T21:18:00.004-05:00

tree ice—
sunlight inches down
the bedroom chair

2008-08-18T18:10:00.000-05:00

this place, the laughter
too quickly summer closes
one more memory

2008-08-18T12:32:00.001-05:00

her parting words
don't see me anymore
ending summer

2008-08-17T23:02:00.001-05:00

snow brighter than the day moon between the caribou

2008-08-17T19:27:00.000-05:00

children playing
secure in the knowledge
more summers will come

2008-08-17T16:21:00.000-05:00

through her garden
of sunflowers
the old lady flickers

Doorway To Love

2008-08-17T11:55:00.000-05:00

seeds of love must pass
a doorway from now to then
a blossom grows there
sweetest lotus men do seek
to drink of waters so pure

scared haze of gold
an essence beyond compare
strip hearts of men bare
their souls search in lust and pain
while seeds of life bare fruit

2008-08-17T04:50:00.000-05:00

first thing to do
take off these sandals
wash away the sand

2008-08-16T20:52:00.001-05:00

dark clouds roll in
dress flies up
cool wind

nocturnal symphony
honking sounds
frogs

jewels sparkling at
end of palm leaves
raindrops hanging on

2008-08-16T19:22:00.001-05:00

at market today
red and ornage rose trees
waving you inside

2008-08-16T11:41:00.001-05:00

mistral evening -
wine drops
on the tablecloth

***

soir de mistral -
des gouttes de vin
sur la nappe

2008-08-16T08:33:00.001-05:00

Through the aperture
Of retrospect, prismed past
Shimmers a mirage

2008-08-16T05:27:00.004-05:00

They come from the beach
clutching at the last sun rays
defying autumn

2008-08-15T22:47:00.001-05:00

After a full year

Liking what I bought

2008-08-15T17:45:00.001-05:00

a midsummer moon
its craters deep in shadow
filled with dark longings

2008-08-15T13:34:00.001-05:00

a small pool
people sunbathing
last few rays

2008-08-15T04:17:00.001-05:00

afternoon on the block
shrieks of laughter
and basketball thumps

2008-08-14T22:16:00.001-05:00

familiar smell
with my eyes closed-
summer rain

2008-08-14T21:03:00.002-05:00

it's cramped in the back
a thirteen hour road trip -
i can't stop smiling

/

cramped
long road trip
smiling

2008-08-14T17:39:00.004-05:00

timid moon, tonight
blushes red, after the rain
-kissed by a rainbow

2008-08-14T05:13:00.001-05:00

dog racing
through cut grass:
his green nose

2008-08-14T03:37:00.002-05:00

pleasant surprise-
depsite Japanese beetles
rose bush blooms

2008-08-13T21:18:00.001-05:00

watching birds
dive down to the river
and back up-
good news and bad news
on the same day

Feather

2008-08-13T18:06:00.001-05:00

Feather on the breeze
Unseen hand wafts it aloft
Into the ether

2008-08-13T11:43:00.002-05:00

quiet, in the shade
golden retriever twitches -
dreaming of sprinklers

2008-08-13T07:22:00.002-05:00

aboard summer clouds,
as I tiptoe on the flowing sky
-fallen under my feet

2008-08-12T12:34:00.002-05:00

business district walk
no green, just baking asphalt -
sweating, parched, weary

2008-08-12T05:39:00.001-05:00

hot sun up above
white powdered sand underneath -
world passing me by

2008-08-11T12:36:00.002-05:00

road trips and beaches
friends, liquor, and a lighthouse -
summers of my past

Ginkgo

2008-08-09T08:18:00.001-05:00

Dance of a thousand
Fans, ginkgo leaves' fluttering
Beguiles frenzied light

2008-08-09T02:28:00.007-05:00

the alchemy of dawn
steals silent into my dreams
turning them to gold

Weather change

2008-08-09T01:27:00.000-05:00

Sweet music
after hot days
rain

2008-08-08T16:56:00.002-05:00

silent dawn -
some black ants
some red ants

***

silence de l'aube -
quelques fourmis noires
quelques fourmis rouges

2008-08-08T05:24:00.000-05:00

concert
in the park -
leaves dripping

2008-08-08T02:44:00.000-05:00

the boy's jar
of ladybirds,smashed:
a red patch spreading

2008-08-07T22:08:00.001-05:00

after weeks
it finally comes,
the rain-
watching it alone
from our bed

2008-08-06T08:39:00.000-05:00

the gardener
leans over his flowers -
they gaze up at him

2008-08-06T03:16:00.000-05:00

rain in the air
wishing it would come
to cut mugginess

2008-08-05T22:37:00.001-05:00

wanting to lie
in the curve of the moon-
cooler, quieter

2008-08-05T17:57:00.001-05:00

Lake Cayuga
a carp mouths the girl’s reflection

Thunderstruck

2008-08-05T07:41:00.001-05:00

Thunderstruck lovers
Surrender to night's siren
Both captive and free

2008-08-02T01:03:00.000-05:00

perfect weekend plans-
hanging out with my sisters
with movies and dip

2008-08-01T03:39:00.001-05:00

system shock over
new growth on latest plants
mallow soon to bloom

2008-07-31T22:25:00.000-05:00

a clean, well-lighted place
shadows of leaves fleck the old man

2008-07-31T16:37:00.002-05:00

a summer wedding,
confetti papering the sky
- the seagulls.

2008-07-31T15:48:00.001-05:00

My skin maps
a battlefield -
insect assaults

2008-07-31T04:15:00.002-05:00

early commute
trunk filled with flowers
on freshly cut lawn

2008-07-30T18:02:00.002-05:00

almost midday
a rumbling reminder
that California
still remains
earthquake haven

over the fence

2008-07-30T06:54:00.003-05:00

the evening breeze
and the odour
of barbecue coals and petrol

mingling
with burnt chicken
- or is it fish?

2008-07-30T03:01:00.002-05:00

cleaning kitchen
Yuki* pounces on leaves
from flower cuttings

* a white cat

2008-07-29T09:27:00.001-05:00

in the shade
of a slatted fence - cat
dreams of being a tiger

2008-07-29T05:42:00.002-05:00

in the stifling heat
the night’s oppressive silence
broken by thumping
as my heart beats basso notes
in concert with bare longing

2008-07-29T03:26:00.000-05:00

early commute-
lone peach rose
blooming on bush

2008-07-27T23:39:00.000-05:00

mountain lake
the night air fills the loon's call

After the storm

2008-07-27T14:25:00.000-05:00

tart with tears -
still hanging on limb
lemon with raindrops

Tourists with Cameras

2008-07-26T10:33:00.002-05:00

Starless night

2008-07-26T07:54:00.000-05:00

Starless night
Cricket song echos in
Ebony stillness