the gray catbird
me-ee-ee-ow tweets;
the breeze is as still
as a Japanese lantern
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Sonnenberg Stillness
Tag Archives: haiku
Symphony in May Minor
from bare trees to green hearts
and dancing fronds —
three weeks since April nudged May Continue reading
In the Greenhouse
under the glass sky
trembling like butterfly wings,
thousands of orchids
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After a hard rain
after a hard rain,
flowers cast away petals
and bow to the wind
the rich darkness of the earth
smells ripe, bitter and alive
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Ghosts of Spring Past
kids hunting tadpoles,
my icy toes walk, slip, slide
against the flow
dappled light on green water
birds hop branch to branch heckling
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The Greening
birds shake rain from wings,
the wind speaks in the trees
split leaf casings dance
withholding from hungry leaves
a dawn breakfast of sunlight
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Every day can’t be sunny
surf pounds the shore
of pink and gray speckled granite,
damp, stinging rain
when I move, even stones
sparkle like diamonds
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Hear your own singing
Saturday morning,
the birds create a stir but
the wind holds its breath
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Standing Tall
outside the box,
even mushrooms are homes
full of heart
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Never Still
light shifts in the trees,
fallen leaves tumble and turn,
going with the flow
beached downstream for a moment
before another wind comes
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Sunset Magic
sunset unfolds
one still summer night,
and restores my mood
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In the Flow
memories flash,
silver fish in the shallows
river-cold then gone
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