Just a short ride for me, but might as well be teleporting for him...

bewildered backpack bug
an unintended ride
a downtown bound train

#haiku #micropoetry #poetry

The first of soon-to-be-many...

lone bearded iris
a teasing promise in its
precocious pop

#haiku

I nearly missed them:
bright green already bleeds through
spring's fading blossoms

#haiku #poetry

I often feel guilty when the weather's nice, that pressure to make the most of it. I like the occasional rainy day that encourages rest.

steady spring rain
the grey sky grants permission
to simply watch it fall

#haiku #poetry

I know plenty of people in my neighborhood have Japanese maples, but I didn't know there were *that* many...

maple whirligigs
messages in tiny bottles
wind-washed to my yard

#haiku #poetry

A day late and a dollar short, since National Haiku Day was yesterday, but still:

Today's haiku day:
celebrate poems packaged
in tiny bundles

#haiku #poetry

https://thehaikufoundation.org/events/international-haiku-poetry-day/

bottle green beetles
guide better than the blazes
along the green trail

#haiku #poetry #bugs #beetles

I just hope they were these harmless ones, and not Emerald Ash Borers... 😬

Cicindela sexguttata - Six-spotted Tiger Beetle
https://bugguide.net/node/view/605

one's time has passed,
the other's has yet to come:
blossoms on a seed bed

#haiku #poetry

incoming spring storm
normally docile windchimes
now sound the alarm

#haiku #poetry

The system that caused deadly tornadoes in the midwest has weakened, but we're still feeling the remnants.

ancient instinct
burrow deeper into bed
as the spring storm gusts

#haiku #poetry

After several years, the woody, stubborn shrub was well & truly dead. I think a couple of frigid spells during this otherwise mild winter finally did it in.

its scent lingers -
rosemary for remembrance -
as i rip it out

#haiku #poetry

little miracles:
sprouted seeds, straining towards
springtime's still-pale sun

#haiku #poetry

We've barely had a winter in my area this year, so my friends and I were shocked to see some flurries yesterday afternoon.

winter's long goodbye
the half-hearted splatter
of windshield sleet

#haiku #poetry

no clock but its own
the crocus knows no cares
but sun, soil, and rain

#haiku

Took advantage of today's unusually warm weather to tidy the beds a bit.

drear, dry, and withered
amid winter's skeletons
a tip of green

#haiku

monotony
grey day like any other
last day of the year

#haiku #poetry

an eerie quiet
settles on the city with the
frigid purple dusk

#haiku #poetry

procrastination:
doing all the things in the world
except what i should

#haiku #poetry

calm after the storm
mellow golden sunset
the eaves still dripping

#haiku #poetry

after a freezing night
both the car and i only
grudgingly start

#haiku #poetry