dailyhaikuprompt

<p>Scorpius caught<br>in the oak branches –<br>winter evening</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | clear air<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>arriving early -- <br>before the blizzard<br>a bluebird on the fence</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | robin (bluebird)<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>each day the walk <br>in the woods with the dogs –<br>a self-seeding poem</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | seed<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>mist over the creek<br>a cold morning follows<br>the snow</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | mist<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>at the fence line<br>deep snow drifts –<br>no place for the blackbirds to rest</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | blackbird<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>this morning<br>the stillness of <br>a violet sky</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | violet<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a> <br><a href="/tags/rural/" rel="tag">#Rural</a></p>

<p>waking to the wildness<br>of coyotes<br> waning crescent moon</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | moon<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>enough to know<br>a roadside where<br>wild roses bloom</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | wild rose<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>early March inside the<br>cardinal’s song – <br>new moon</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | new moon<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>last sip of coffee –<br>temporary<br>nirvana</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | nirvana<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a> <br><a href="/tags/coffee/" rel="tag">#coffee</a></p>

<p>about softness – <br>this moonlight through the <br>swelling maple buds</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | moon<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>a fiddlehead weaves<br>and waves – <br>jigs then reels</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | fiddlehead<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>early March –<br>some lightning<br>with that snow</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | lightning <br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>porcupine –<br>my dog and a lesson <br>about space</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | quill<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>our entangled lives<br>wild grapes</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | grapes<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>on a corner of the Milky Way<br>the local owls ask<br>existential questions</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | milky way<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>early spring lantern<br>.<br>the brightness of <br>cardinals</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | spring lantern<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>porch light<br>the crickets <br>pause</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | lamplight (porch light)<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>high in the tree<br>a red bellied woodpecker<br>inspects the shriveled apples </p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | high<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>morning glories and meadowlarks –<br>stories my father told <br>of his boyhood farm</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | morning glories<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>aging mother – <br>pelicans <br>return to the river</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | pilgrimmage <br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a> <br><a href="/tags/caregiving/" rel="tag">#Caregiving</a></p>

<p>blue note<br>a cardinal’s song stirs<br>a warp in time</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | note<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>insight<br>a cloud bank parts<br>for the sun</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | blue sky<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>late winter dusk –<br>the last flight of geese<br>settles on Canoe Creek</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | flying geese<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>

<p>a pasture gate moves<br>gently in the wind –<br>the sound of geese overhead</p><p><a href="/tags/dailyhaikuprompt/" rel="tag">#DailyHaikuPrompt</a> | flying geese<br><a href="/tags/smallpoems/" rel="tag">#SmallPoems</a></p>