3/31/15 clouds

Clouds of purple haze

Bowers of wisteria

Over Union Square

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Northern California, poetry, Senryu, Spring, SpringtimeTags: haiku, senryu

Keys

Spring cleansing– old keys

What doors swung open for me?

All, all forgotten

  

March 30, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Uncategorized 1 Comment

Moss Landing

Saber slash of moon

In a sky gently glazing

Blueing in the dawn

March 29, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Northern California, poetryTags: brucejewett, dawn, haiku, sunrise

3/27/15 kids

Kids at school crosswalk

Cherry blossoms bend and sigh

At their transience 

March 29, 2015March 29, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Children, haiku, Senryu, Spring, Springtime, UncategorizedTags: brucejewett, cherry blossom, children, haiku

Nam Meow

cats about to spring

on buddhist altar — intone

ceremonial screams

March 28, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Buddhism SGI, Cats, haiku, SenryuTags: cats, haiku, senryu 3 Comments

Stalingrad

Bones and burnt iron

Oceans of tall sunflowers

Flotsam of a Reich

March 26, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Senryu, WarTags: haiku, senryu, stalingrad, war

3/26/15

Woodpeckers pecking

Wife chopping meat for the cats

Sonorous morning 

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Senryu, UncategorizedTags: cats, haiku, senryu

Me speakee Avianese

My house cats practice
Their Avian language skills
With bemused robins

March 26, 2015March 26, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Northern California, Senryu, UncategorizedTags: birds, brucejewett, cats, haiku, senryu

El Camino 3/23/15

Man at the roadside

Holding up a cardboard sign

Bearing his haiku

March 26, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Homeless, Senryu, Spring, SpringtimeTags: begging, haiku, panhandling, senryu

) haiku

A thin crescent moon

Like an end parentheses

Chalked on a blackboard

March 24, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haikuTags: haiku, moon

3/24/15 Buster

 Hissing and stumbling

Calls out crows to bring it on

My cat-nip drunkard

March 24, 2015March 29, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Cats, haiku, poetry, SenryuTags: cats, haiku, senyru 6 Comments

#17

bitter bitter root

my daughter’s incessant rants

in Emergency

March 18, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Children, haiku

Kermit

frog crossing the road

sixteen wheeler coming down

what would Basho say?

March 14, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, SenryuTags: frogs, haiku, senryu

Buster

bounding hungry storm

safecracker of kibble bags

you’ll always survive

March 14, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Cats, haiku, SenryuTags: cats, haiku, senryu

Lullabye

she sings lullabyes

girl we used to rock to sleep

songbird of our spring

March 14, 2015March 14, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, SenryuTags: daughter, haiku, senryu

Father’s Haiku

Tilted rice bowl moon

Birds sleep in unknown places

As do our daughters

March 12, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Children, Family, haiku, poetry, Relationships, Spring, SpringtimeTags: brucejewett, children, daughters, family, march, moon

Ode to Kitties

Cats in cupboards

Or refrigerators

Or under my feet

Or licking old paint

Or in the sink

Or simultaneously

All these things.

(For Linda Hawkes)

March 11, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: CatsTags: cats, felines, pets 1 Comment

Hina Matsuri Haiku

Ah, Doll’s Festival!

But our daughters are grown now

The dolls won’t know them

March 10, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Children, Family, haiku, Japan, Spring, SpringtimeTags: daughters, doll festival, hinamatsuri, japan

Marin Haiku

Mustard flowering

On coastal fields and pastures

Gold comes to the gate

March 10, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Northern California, Spring, SpringtimeTags: brucejewett, Golden Gate, Marin County, mustard

March Haiku

This gray morning fog

Pale chemises of light droop

Under street lamps

March 10, 2015March 10, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Cats, Spring, Springtime, WinterTags: brucejewett, fog, haiku, march, spring, winter