A Collection of Haiku
2022
A year of rage and relief
Hopeful confusion
Even the mountains
Shouldered with forests and snow
Will wash to the seas
After the fury
Of the night's delerium
The snow now quiet
Light we do not see
Voices that we could not hear
Thoughts we will not know
My favorite songs
Birds - wind - thunder - coyotes
And water falling
Comfort of winter
With its vast sunlit snowfields
Where spring sleeps beneath
Gifts of December
Iciles on the willow
Yuletime's welcome hearth
A tree not chosen
Stands alone on Christmas eve
Glorious with snow
Dogs have holidays
When they can eat and relax
Perpetually
A foolish question
Consisting of just five words
When will you grow up?
When we conceived time
To measure the infinite
Did nature notice
Who knows what there is?
What if it's all make-believe?
Precarious tales
These precious children
Fragile and invincible
Hope for tomorrow
A holiday tree
Bedecked with sparkling snow
Deep amid the woods
Aspens assembled
Barely white with winter's frost
Shudder in the wind
If you should wonder
Close your eyes and look at me
I am always here
To know nature's mein
Venture out and seek nothing
Listen with your heart
Back to the dugout
He glances at the pitcher
Who just struck him out
In the lowest place
Where raindrops form a puddle
The birds come to drink
From a bee
I'm lost in this bloom
Where the sweetest nectar brews
I'm found in this bloom
A floating full moon
Perhaps a balloon escaped
From a child's bouquet
In noon's effulgence
The dragonfly's blue dazzle
Untranslatable
What is worth it all
Favor, fixtures and fortune
Or maybe a cloud
This place is not ours
Its immanence surpasses
The end of our mind
Little can be said
Or unsaid, ironically
About a good joke
When tired of the noise
She tucked between the pages
Of the next good book
There goes wee Marie
Uplifted with blue balloons
Filled with sheer delight
For each wax a wane
All contradictions resolved
The stars glow at noon
When the sun is low
Pebbles cast long shadows
And seem like mountains
Stones fall in the pond
Bubbles rise to the surface
Minnows swim to them
