30 March 2024 (another rainy day)

another rainy day the flow of poems

30 October 2023 (farmstand ginko)

farmstand ginko

the heft

of a ripe pumpkin

* a ginko is a group haiku outing

21 October 2023 (migrating geese)

migrating geese

the way they fly

in any poem

24 June 2022 (alongside)

running alongside

the drafts of my poem

bird list

12 July 2021 (mower)

unlikely muse

the drone of a neighbor’s mower

on a Monday evening

13 June 2021 (vireo)

Inspired by a presentation by Anne Burgevin yesterday, on haiku prompts, given (via Zoom) at the Haiku Society of America’s 2021 Conference. (All presentations will be available for later viewing on YouTube.) The prompt was “morning rain.”

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morning rain

the vireo’s song

on repeat

28 May 2021 (cones)

spruce cones along the trail

gathering

ideas for a poem

14 February 2021 (Zoom)

Zoom haiku meeting

the juxtapositions

of all the faces

9 August 2020 (blackberries)

ripe blackberries

the part of my brain

where poems come from

17 April 2020 - International Haiku Poetry Day

Today is International Haiku Poetry Day!

If you’re interested in learning how to write haiku, I’ve created a worksheet for the day in lieu of the in-person workshop and ginko that I was going to do at my local library. Find that HERE! Hope you find you enjoy writing haiku as much as I do…

5 April 2020 (editing)

Thank you to those of you who responded to yesterday’s query re which version worked best. 5 of you said you preferred version 1 (“social distance”), 7 of you preferred version 2 (“these days…”), and 1 voted for both. I appreciate your thoughtful replies! I’m leaning toward version 2 myself. But that might change 6 months from now. Editing is an ongoing process.

brightening sky

the perfect last line

arrives