Tag Archives: haiku

September Heights: Meadow

the woods brush field edges threaded with cornstalks–no room for meadows here.

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September heights–grass

my braided grass hair will dry and snap to its roots– no warmth under snow

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September heights–creation

a bang or a shout shaped everything we are now– was it god or chance?

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September heights: Revelation

my revelation shows everything hidden in this tentative heart  

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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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