into August's sun
with it's cruel grip upon us
gentle beauty grows
Category: Haiku
I adore the simplicity, as well as the challenge of Haiku. The constraints focus my mind, seeking out the essence of the moment, feeling, notion, distilling it to brilliant singularity.
Today’s Word Challenge Haiku: “Adhere”
Today I’ll jump over to Fandango’s One-Word Challenge. Our word: “adhere”. Hmmm…
next to the sea a rose adheres to the cliff climbing skywards
Today’s Haiku: “Vision”
Another response to the Word of the Day Challenge. Today’s word is “vision”.
seeking a vision as summer progresses beyond empty words
A haiku response to today’s Word of the Day Challenge
Today’s word is “overdue”. Not a very poetic word, is it?
a day with light rain giving overdue relief birds gracing my day
A Dark Sky Haiku
under sunlight's edge gazing upwards at the clouds I have everything
Shedding Sunlight: Tonight’s Haiku
shedding sunlight
night emerges, taking hold
summer raindrops fall
Tonight’s Haiku: Summer’s Rose
feeding on sunlight
gracefully growing skyward
now the scent of rain
Bees: A Haiku
while the bees’s moving
gracefully over petals
preparing for rain
I’m pretty pleased with this photo, taken along the Edmonds waterfront.
A Haiku Response to the Word of the Day Challenge: Meeting
Another morning, another daily challenge. This time I am looking at the Word of the Day Challenge. Today’s word is “meeting”. With the pandemic and all, you might expect me to write about Zoom. But, no…
in the morning mist flowers meeting to discuss humanity's fate
A Word Challenge Haiku: Insidious
I’m very fond of “Word Challenges”. Today I’m taking on Fandango’s One Word Challenge, and the word is “insidious“.
despite their beauty these insidious flowers destructively grow
Photo by Munro Studio on Unsplash