haiku

Mike Salway*

venus, jupiter,
buck moon together; their weight
bears down on my life

for Frank J. Tassone’s Haiku Challenge

(*actually, as i type this at 12:35 am, the full moon stands just below saturn and jupiter, which for me is a far heavier conjunction than its conjuntion with venus and jupiter. Unfortunately, i don’t have a photo of this trio at hand.)

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wild iris springs up
from a crack in the sidewalk
tame iris stays home

for Frank Tassone Haiku Challenge

…seen annually in Los Alamos

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summertime warming
smiling faces back when that
used to be pleasant

50 more from a time before global warming added a few degrees around here.

for Frank Tassone’s Haiku Challenge

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fireflies make no sound
new extinctions make no sound
here i’m making sound

for Haiku Challenge

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nature made anger
and in summer meadows the
graves of our fallen

for Haiku Challenge

Our President’s Flower: The Wild Rose

dawn dew on wild rose
our president reaches out
and thorns prick his hand

 

For Frank’s Haikai Challenge