this evening’s light pours
viscous, strengthening into
summer’s honeyed mead
Tag Archives: Haiku
“clouds a flotilla” – A haiku on a Spring day
clouds a flotilla;
the sky a sea stretching down
to the horizon
“Crab apple – how sour” – Marginalia from a library conference – A haiku
crab apple – how sour
a name – its pink blossoms lilt
sweet as the cherry
the wind spitting snow – A haiku for the cold, flooding spring, with a nod to T.S. Eliot
the wind spitting snow,
the rivers spilling woe; this
april’s the cruellest
after guests, blown out – Christmas Haiku
after guests, blown out
candles curl smudged, berried smoke
into the dimness
Zamboni! – Some Haiku About Ice Skating
Rumbling on the ice,
The magical snow beast. Hail,
Mighty Zamboni!
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Shaved, sprayed, smoothed–the ice,
Soothed, waits once again for the
Violence of skating.
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-Skating on a warm day last year at Steinberg.
The Trees of Winter – Photo & Haiku
These haiku from last year…
tree in exile from
the earth, cut off, forsaken
shooting ever green
tree in exile from
the land, cut down, forsaken
raised in glorious light
…now have an image to go with them
And the Results are in…..Autumn, Then Winter Haiku Contest
First, an apology for those of you who may have checked out this blog several times today looking for results. I am sorry for not keeping my promise. The cynical may view it as a plot to up my blog hits for the day 
At any rate, at long last the results are here!
And, dear reader, if you live in the United States, I hope that you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day and were able to enjoy some good food, some better fellowship, and to be able to take a moment to be thankful for the blessings in your life (which we can do no matter where we live). In fact, I need to take some do that right now! Amongst too many things to mention (I am a very blessed man), I am thankful for you, my readers, who encourage me to keep honing away on various avenues of creativity.
season’s first grapefruit – A haiku about citrus
as if a sun were
immanent beneath dim skies
season’s first grapefruit
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-Its antecedent haiku here
The “Autumn, Then Winter” Haiku Contest is Up – Some celebratory haiku of my own
We have fifteen haiku from 10 contestants for this contest. It is not too hard work to put on such contest, but even for a small one like this, it is tricky to keep track of email entries, so if I have forgotten your entry please let me know right away and I will get it up.
I thought about sneaking an entry of my own in, but I suspect that the judges, knowing me rather well, may have sniffed that out quite quickly. So here are my introductory haiku on the contest theme. If you wish to comment on these, do so here. If you wish to comment on the contestants’ haiku, please do so on the contest page. Enjoy!
the leaves translucent
stream glory upon glory;
trees like church windowsbranches like leaden
window frames, bereft of glass,
gilt by warm creche light
