among the weeds the black eyed susan blossoms in chorus #haiku #gardening

a head of lettuce when it’s gone to seed begins to resemble a bunny #haiku written on the patio sitting in the sun

mad as the world is the garden is flourishing dahlias now emergent #haiku #haiga #gardening

The limelight over extends itself in its quest for efflorescence #haiku #haiga #gardening

flowers come in waves hurling themselves at the sun importunately #haiku #gardening

I traveled long on a cloud of forgetfulness to far distant lands #haiku

Oh the blackberries! The birds and I both stake claim to summer sweetness #haiku #gardening #haiga

flowers are poems written in a language butterflies understand #haiku #gardening

this part of summer we wait for the zinnias to take center stage #haiku #gardening #haiga

from many pieces a mosaicist fashions art all of a piece #haiku #MarissaBridge some detail from new work that will be part of her show opening on August 1st.

rabbit in the rain takes shelter under a tree attentive to the storm readying to make a mad dash to its warren #tanka for a rabbit in the rain

the sky is ailing living under a new name in spirit failing #haiku

A grizzly bear seen from not too far offshore is a princely beast #haiku my nephew sent me this incredible photo taken from the deck of a fishing boat he is crewing this summer off the shore of southern Alaska

flowers when you’re born flowers when you die how wonderful #haiku #senryu In reply to #Issa

A soaking rain brings the hydrangeas’ reign to its official start #haiku in the #garden

a situation inherently unstable bunny grazes while kitty naps #haiku

yellow is the color she chose to wear on the 4th prickly pear cactus #haiku #gardening

a golden kernel postmarked to posterity and serial increase #haiku #gardening

choice never simple things neither random nor fated and both just the same #haiku #senryu

The hydrangea today outside M’s studio is an ingenue in bloom #haiku #haiga #gardening

suspended in dust awareness but the first step change in all that follows #haiku #haiga for a fuller explanation of this message I found inscribed in a dustball see also here: compostreporter.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

a flock of ostriches have invaded the garden bishop’s torch enflamed #haiku #gardening

#Paumonak stretches out along the evening sky paying tribute to itself #haiku

flowers keep growing and the petals keep falling all over the lawn #haiku #gardening

#haiku for the month of May: from Sakura to Samara the petals fall Samsara is strewn all over the lawn #meditation #buddhism #haiga #gardening

Tonight’s salad first kissed by the rain then blessed by the sun #haiku #gardening

for George Oppen: the business of a poet - to sit with a cat in your lap composing #haiku

my best spring poems take root in the garden know them by their fruits #haiku #gardening

This spring I’m writing #haiku in the garden counting seeds in three rows #gardening #spring

New leaf lays limp Chlorophyll unsure itself what it’s supposed to do #haiku #haiga #spring