Curly kale
Hungry little fence lizards
I can't deny them

#haiku #poetry #gardening

Burning gasoline
Blowing dirt into the street
Whence it soon returns

Burning gasoline
For such futility
Anger, heartbreak

#globalwarming #climatechange #nature #haiku #poetry

thank you!

#poetry #nature #globalwarming #climatechange #haiku #extinction #birds

#poetry #nature #globalwarming #climatechange #haiku #extinction #birds

a bright orange harlequin flower

I didn't plant you
Somehow, here you are
Welcome to my garden

#haiku #poetry #nature #flowers

We are so tired of winter here in Kyiv
that even the smallest signs of spring make us happy.

Crocuses on the grounds of Saint Sophia Cathedral today.

Gravid house fly
Cruising round and round
Driving me crazy

#haiku #poetry

I am I am I am I am I am
Pentameter—a hard way to compose
For a modern brain it’s a strange refrain
A steadily moving train is language
Vanished horizons of comprehension
Inexorable vistas of newness
Beautiful penmanship a dying art
A squiggled signature on an iPad
#poetry#shakespeare#haiku

Uniformly brown
Unassuming, hardworking
California Towhee

Single, simple note
But always the earliest
To greet the day

Still dark
When I hear you
You are morning

#haiku #poetry #birds #nature
Photo by Luke Seitz

love this one!

Leap forward, clock!
If only America
Could do the same

#haiku #poetry #flowers #nature

Steady rain.
Chortling Robins
Sweet symphony!

Bright red berries
Disappearing
Happy birds!

#Haiku, #poetry, #birds

Much needed rain
Plum tree blossoms
Soon will be falling

Fruit or leaf?
Unseen genetic decisions
Amazing

#haiku #poetry #flowers

An Introvert Tries to do Marketing I close my eyes and typeCreative EnergyAlive and freeMarketing makes me feelIncompetent and queasyStrange dichotomyBooks need two breaths of lifeAuthor's inspirationReaders' validation As I launch my new book, I feel myself cowering at the prospect of trying to make it known to people. I keep coming back to some words penned by Robert Service, the poet of the Yukon gold rush:

Some thoughts on book marketing #haiku #poetry #books #freebook #reading #psychology #fairytale #authors #writing #nature #birds #horses

Dreams, Fairy Tales, and the Search for Self What is the earliest big dream you can remember having in your life? By “big” I mean a dream that left behind very vivid images and powerful feelings of connection to mystery. I may be odd in this respect, but this has always been an easy question for me to answer. I can place the dream quite precisely in time because of a geographical move my family made, which was a big psychic event for me.

#authors #books #freebook #reading #fairytale #haiku #poetry #neurodivergent #introverts #nature #horses #psychology #magicalrealism #writers

Caliginous
Dark, Misty, obscurity
Like a dream

Matutinal
Of the morning
Bright Dawn, first birdsong

#haiku #poetry #obscurewords

Sweet!

Slumbering nature
Strange it seems that with age
I miss you, snow

#haiku #poetry #nature #art #snow

wood block painting by Kawase Hasui

Tangled vines
Silhouettes across the wall
Full moon's artistry

#haiku #poetry

A lost fragment of a dream
Floats into view
Late in the day

Believed extinct
In the morning
The image is somehow rekindled

Ordinary life recedes
Attention riveted
The image is all

The mystery is real
Interior, transcendent
The cosmos in a dream
#haiku #poetry #nature #dreams #psychology

I have a dream
That one day soon
This evil will recede

That the true content
Of our national character
Will triumph

It's more than a dream
A belief, a fact
A matter of time

#haiku #poetry #Martinlutherking #minneapolis

Sensing longer days now
Near Gramma's birthday
Happy remembrance

#haiku #poetry #wildflower #nature

"Warrior's plume" an uncommon winter wildflower

Yes!

Thank you!

Scruffy coyote
You're back, in your winter coat
But wait ...

Tufts of thick fur
Patches of bare skin
Left leg raw and red

Many fear you, hate you
Maybe they don't see
How hard your life is

#haiku #poetry #nature #coyote

love the rainbow!

Wildflower blue
Democratic blue
A year of triumphant blue!

#haiku #poetry #wildflowers #nature
Pacific Hound's Tongue (the leaves look like a canine tongue), a common forest wildflower

I know it sounds trite
But may our collective path forward
Restore sanity and light

#poetry #newyear