haiku: treads on darkness

“Menorah” by Yoram Raanan consuming fire wrapped in light ignites cold candles and treads on darkness

haiku: autumn breeze

a crimson leaf blown in the autumn breeze says my life is not my own I snapped this photo in Diedesheim, Germany, just as we were leaving. The wind kicked up and sent a flurry of autumn leaves dancing across the ancient cobblestones. Today we are hopping a train for a village outside of Frankfurt for…

haiku: autumn harvest

orange and gold shimmer fields, vines, and trees spilling fruit autumn harvest glows

haiku: desert dawn

dawn slathers scarlet across the gray desert sky shadows soak first light

haiku: scarlet leaf

  a scarlet leaf stains my parched lips and quenches what is thirsty in me

haiku: autumn

august rushes past September’s starting line then drifts into scarlet

haiku: irony

prickly thistle thrives in the desert place, swathed in purple like a king

haiku: the common

common moments stored a treasure chest prepared for leaner days ahead