Haiku sequence for the thunder moon

For Frank Tassone’s Thunder Moon challenge.

 

serene—riding

in unclouded silence—

thunder moon

 

summer speaks

silver and gold with thunder

in the moon’s voice

 

thunderstorms

nights rocked with rain lit day-bright

behind clouds—the moon

 

night storm

among the billows

the moon glows

 

look—not fireflies

about the moon not stars

lightning flickers

Haiku for wild irises

For Frank Tassone’s challenge.

 

around the well

the shooting spears

of untamed irises

 

ephemeral

born in spring rains

beetle bright

 

in spring damp

cool green water blue a world

in a flower

Haiku for midsummer

The white bird is an egret. We usually see them in flocks, but this solitary individual (weirdo maybe) was flying with a great flock of red kites. The kites were after the hot-blooded creatures disturbed by the mowing, the egret was after grasshoppers.

 

 

beneath drying stalks

once gold

green ribs shine

 

waves of heat-shimmer

on the meadow break

with poplar-hiss

 

shade pools

dim as ocean depths where

bramble flowers wink

 

all these months

the thrush has sung dawn to dusk

through the dark days

 

light glitters now

damselfly-bright on the last

wave tip of spring

 

Haiku for the longest day

For Frank Tassone’s summer solstice prompt.

the longest day

a day for mowing cutting

the year in half

 

all the golden stalks

the meadow

a battlefield

 

the gyre narrows

hawk objective probes beneath

the fallen grass

 

how did they know

before the engine’s rattle

that death was coming?

 

feather swarm glides

in untouching pattern

through the blue

Haiku for a grey morning

 

grey cloud

grey grass sea sprinkled

with seed pearls

 

pheasant

coughs defiance into

the sunday silence

 

rain patters

on last year’s leaves

and this year’s snails

Haiku sequence: Changeable

 

yellow face

broad and smiling—gold-plated

sunshine flower

 

such green growth

though the wind howls grass stalks

bend not breaking

 

still it rains

not still the sky mirror

where water leaps

Haiku challenge: Placid & Wild

For Ronovan’s weekly challenge.

moon drifts

among swaying kelp fronds

of the ocean sky

 

serene the moon

though the wind blows wild

waves in the treetops

 

wild is the moonlight

the wind voices wailing

an owl sighs

Haiku for a rainy evening

rainy dusk

a deer ventures across

the open field

 

light fades

deer step from beneath the trees

the earth holds its breath

 

last leaves cling

golden tree treasure

making deep shadows

Perseids

image ©Radoslaw Ziomber

a rain of stars

falls on the thirsty earth

portents

 

watching the sky

listening to hunting owls

calling down the stars

 

from moonset to cockcrow

I watch the star blanket shift

learning to let go

Haiku sequence: Haymaking

 

haymaking

the house fills with the scent

death of grass

 

night falls

mown meadows aglitter

with fox-red eyes

 

grass ocean

settles into dead calm

red seawolves prowl