May | 2014 | the haiku diaries

May 30, 2014, 8:16 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: cats, haiku, mourning doves

Young mourning doves coo —
stay safe from marauding cats
that slink through our yard.

May 29, 2014, 7:00 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, morning swamp walk, woodpecker

Drum of woodpecker
travels across swamp water
and fills me with sound.

May 28, 2014, 7:39 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: birds, budgie, haiku, parakeet, spring, Woody

Woody, the budgie,
responds boldly to bird calls
he hears from outside.

May 27, 2014, 7:15 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, morning walk, swamp walk

Pre-rain morning walk —
swamp, pinkster, honeysuckle,
cotton-batting clouds.

May 26, 2014, 1:01 pm
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, Memorial Day

Memorial Day —
we have to celebrate this
day in our own ways.

May 25, 2014, 8:15 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: birds Sunday morning, haiku, lawn mower

Lawn mower at eight
on a nice Sunday morning.
I want to hear birds!

May 24, 2014, 9:11 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, old man, the farm

A visit to see
father in the hospital
melds past and present.

May 23, 2014, 8:38 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, rewriting, writing life

I’ve been rewriting
for days. It’s satisfying
to see something morph.

May 22, 2014, 7:50 am
Filed under: haiku, rachel's post | Tags: haiku, road trip, thunderstorms

On a wee road trip —
hoping to dodge thunderstorms
until safely home.

May 22, 2014, 2:56 am
Filed under: haiku, jenna's post

Haikus went streaming
through my brain–but I didn’t
write them down. A shame.

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