A Collection of Haiku
An absconding crow
Always looking for a snatch
A thankless rascal
To bed on the rocks
Seals lumber from the ocean
Their barks fill the dusk
It all looms faintly
As outlines - barely defined
Until the fog lifts
Cormorants fly as one
Fiercely they face to the wind
None is the fastest
A dignified gull
Perches on a wave-drenched rock
Appears to own it
Riding on the wind
A pelican rises - stalls
Spots the fish and dives
The beauty of life
(of the light and its shadows)
Is that it goes on
A train in the night
Hastens into a tunnel
Dark such as darkness
Can we do without
Abstractions that visit dreams
Illusions are real
You needn't transform to stone
I will not touch you
They are multitudes
Small - busy - mostly quiet
Insects surround us
A breeze happens by
Brushes against my shoulder
And whispers something
For all this wonder
Of the ages uncounted
There must be children
The revolutions
Fire - wind - coal - oil - data
Will we be disused
Temple overgrown
Stone eyes gaze into the past
Monkeys scream at night
My dog lies by me
She puts her head on my floot
So I will stay here
A dry summer trail
The grassses and moss are grey
Everything wants rain
I will fly no flag
Nothing to hang slack or flap
My staff will be bare
You will never know
Unless you open the door
What's inside or out
Mississippi town
Where you can't find a stranger
People nod and smile
A moth on the sill
Dry depleted and expired
Relief was outside
Here's the troubling part
The key to our election
Might be Taylor Swift
Eventually
It will be a one lane road
That takes you back home
Whatever I know
I sure don't know about cats
They don't seem to care
Summer sun is high
Even the fish are sweating
Dogs under the porch
Sometimes I’m a goat
A buck chewing old stories
Calm and ruminant
