SPRING

Sudden thunderstorm
Plant kingdom awakening
Reproductive urge

Ice looses its grip
Night begins to seem shorter

Giggling lovers

Malibu Burning (a haiku)

Malibu burning
Million dollar homes destroyed
Coyote sneezes

Malibu In Flames (a senryu)

Malibu in flames
Landmark castle burns to ground
Drooling reporters

Rabbit Tracks (a haiku)

Rabbit tracks in snow
Disappear leaving behind
An eagle feather

Together (a senryu)

Only together
Can humanity at last
Reach enlightenment

Joy Of Hummingbirds! (a gunsaku)

Watching the sun rise
Over California hills
Hummingbirds flash past

 

Coffee for breakfast
Could not make me more awake
Than these hummingbirds

Hummingbirds hover
Sipping June morning blossoms
At the gardens edge

Rest a few moments
Watch the busy hummingbirds
Playing with their food

Hummingbirds spiral
Around the path of morning
Sipping here and there

Stopping in midair
Hummingbird watches me write
About her beauty

Dive stop climb stop dart
Curious hummingbird chirps
June morning greetings

Tiny dynamo
Faster than the eye can see
Hummingbird here gone

Metalic feathers
Reflecting early summer
On hummingbird wings

Careening then still
Sampling the June sunflowers
Hummingbirds hover

Tiny feathers glint
Rainbows in metalic shades
Arcing between blooms

Riot of colors
Volant on hummingbird wings
Kiss June wildflowers

Joy of hummingbirds
Racing across the meadows
Winners sip nectar

 

Steady Winds Of Time (a rensaku)

Steady winds of time
Blow silver onto our hair
Wrinkles in our skin

Don’t have to like it
Just be there as it happens
Grins come on strange winds

Feeling much younger
Than my grandkids say I look
Laugh erases years

I’ll live long enough
To play work and play some more
I have already

Ugly innocence
Not trying to hurt feelings
Too young to stay mad

It’s alot of work
To be five years or fifty
I’ve had more practice

Child’s culry wild mop
In the way combed every day
Wishing he was bald

Looking back on it
I’ve had a pretty good life
Even the dim parts

I tell clean jokes and
To keep the tot entertained
Play with wooden trains

Translation of a Basho

deepening autumn
fellow living down the road
how does your day go

Intuition

Intuition skims
The surface of Lake Logic
On dragonfly wings

Waiting For Prometheus

Prometheus left
In a mighty big hurry
Saying wait for him