Category Archives: haiku

Haiku Heights: Symphony

illuminating child voices float through the hall purer than sunlight my daughter’s alto a honey-dark thread woven through the sopranos the risers placed where Stravinsky and Bernstein stood crafting symphonies

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September heights: Rain

this cycle of drops rising and capture to fall infinite circles

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September heights: Divine

willow, forked and young knows water and bows to it– all magic is thirst ***my mother and grandmother were good dowsers, or diviners of water.  I never tried, but decided to take an unexpected turn with today’s prompt.

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September heights: Pepper

I make pepper jam– a kiss that stings tongues with sweet simmered into heat

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September Heights: Render

we can, with patience render out the possible from improbable *** Yay!  Tomorrow’s prompt looks easier.

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wind

Invisible hands tease hair with agile fingers breathe away summer

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September Heights: Milky Way

our home galaxy– just this one holds every star I number tonight

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