Great Expectations

The Artist In His Studio by Rembrandt

Potential looms large

Over an empty canvas

Painter hesitates.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Weekend Mini Challenge - Ekphrasis

Monarch

Monarch in autumn
Orange black wings against brown
Life persists in death.

submitted for Mind, Love, Misery's Menagerie, Heeding Haiku w/HA, Drop Your Haiku Somewhere

origami butterfly w/haiku left on table at county bldg.

Wisteria

photo source

Wandering wildly

Wisteria winds its way

Warm weather welcome

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads,This Prompt Brought To You By the Letter W

Jewish Christmas Haiku

Oy vey, it's Christmas!

Let's do a movie and then

We'll get some Chinese!

submitted (late) for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Words Count with MZ,

Entitlement Haiku

Presidential Math:

Diss forty-seven percent

Lose one election

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Words Count With Mama Zen, in which she asks for a brief (less than 20 word) summary of the election

Icarus and the Fall

photo by lolamouse (s.tardio) oct. 2012

 Eight legged goddess

Dead center, lamplit doily

Warm autumn whispers

One parchment winged moth

Icarus to her false sun

Enshrouded pilgrim

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Words Count With Mama Zen

What's the Buzz?

photo by lolamouse (s. tardio)

Buzzing bees working

Covered in sun and pollen

Summer's harbingers

She Floats

  Photo by Zena Holloway

Waif upon water

Blondness rises, spreads like blood

Then she floats, just floats.

Dream Walking

Synesthesia by jaynecp on polyvore.com

In dream walks each night

    I see bird song, hear sun set

    Awaken and mourn

Written for The Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 24 – February 24th – Words: Dream Walks Thanks to Rachana Shakyawar of Humming Today because the phrase 'Dream Walks' was coined from her poem

The Joy of Giving

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  The joy of giving
Bringing warmth to a cold heart
Soup for hungry souls

Soup for hungry souls
Steaming bowls of nourishment
They may feed others

They may feed others
What goes around comes around
The joy of giving

Written for The Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 23 – February 23rd – Theme: Joy of Giving Form: (ABC, CDE, EFA) - Haiku

The Dancer

Floor beneath her feet
Bare toes caress wooden planks
Spring in her spirit

Written for The Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 22 – February 22nd – Theme: Paint the Image...

Photo Clicked by Enosh of: Enosh Bansode Photography

Dedication

Book's dedication

A gift from my grandmother

Love of poetry

Written for The Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 21 – February 21st – Theme: Dedication

Imagine Better

photo by astridle

 Imagine better
Than what life was yesterday
Perhaps it will be

Written for The Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 20 – February 20th – Quote: Live out of your imagination, not your history

Tiny Miracles

photo by lolamouse

 Purple crocus heads

Push skyward through white snow drifts

Triumph of the sun

Red breasted robin

Chatters, nags, pecks, and complains

I can't help but laugh

Cherry blossom buds

Like strawberry jelly beans

Offer Spring's sweetness

submitted for Poetry Jam, Have You Seen a Miracle Lately?

Spring, Battle Creek Cypress Swamp

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 Tiny spring peepers

Chirp love songs from the Cypress

Bull frog bass back beat

Mayapple leaves spread

Catching cool raindrops falling

Umbrellas for toads

Ethereal mist

Blankets buds, warbler takes wing

Traveler on Earth

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, A Word With Laurie, Ethereal

and Old Pond A Frog Leaps In
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Written for The Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 19 – February 19th – Theme: Seasons Type: Kigo

Change of Perspective

tree in our yard where lightning struck

Kicked and bruised Earth is

bullied into submission

Mother Nature screams

Neon and Black

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Drag queens in full bloom

Urban hip black shed for black

Spring in NYC

submitted for dVerse Poets Pub, Going Urban

Gray on Gray

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Lizard on a rock

Studies his shadow below

Shades of gray on gray

submitted for The Purple Treehouse, Poetic Forms, Haiku

Memories

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 Like stars in the sky

Memories light the darkness

Help us find our way

submitted for May Poetry Challenge, Day 7, Memories at Verse in a Nutshell

Tartaruga

The dog sussed you out

Though red eyes glow with anger

Cara carapace!

submitted for Tuesday Thankfulness at Tingtasy