323

young jay flutters down
inches from a feral cat
one in every flock

July 31, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Birds, Bruce Jewett, Cats, WildlifeTags: birds, danger, feral, haiku, haiku for cats, jays 1 Comment

322

outdoor cats visit
mine separated by mesh
monitored by guards

July 31, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Cats, haiku, haiku for cats, SenryuTags: cats, feral, haiku, haikuforcats 5 Comments

321

a firefly glows
brighter than the rest… my jar
lies broken at home

July 31, 2015July 31, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: poems, poetry, SummerTags: firefly, haiku, infatuation, senryu, summer 5 Comments

320

I toss banana
peels into the brown thicket
explodes into fawns

July 30, 2015July 30, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, deer, haiku, Senryu, Summer, WildlifeTags: deer, fawns, haiku, thicket, wildlife 1 Comment

319

all doors and windows
stay open in this heat
neighbors hear neighbors

July 29, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, suburbs, summerTags: drought, haiku, heat 1 Comment

318

tangles of branches
the sheen of dark gazing eyes
barely visible

July 29, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, deer, haiku, haiku for cats, Northern CaliforniaTags: animals, deer, haiku, summer

317.3

the rent has risen
jenny wren and her children
vacate the bird house

July 29, 2015August 9, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Birds, Bruce Jewett, Economics, haiku, SenryuTags: birds, haiku, homeless, housing, Jenny Wren, wren 2 Comments

316

wake up in the cool
blue of morning, like a fish
in a mountain lake

July 29, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, environment, haikuTags: fish, haiku, lake, mountain 1 Comment

315

Jenny Wren and chicks
cannot afford the two grand
rent for their bird house

  

July 28, 2015July 29, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Birds, Bruce Jewett, Economics, haiku for cats, Northern California, SummerTags: birdhouse, birds, haiku, rent, wrens 5 Comments

314

yellow and twitching
in the bushes– banana
peels left for the deer

July 28, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, deer, haikuTags: bananas, deer, eating, haiku, summer

313

curses, door slams, screams
wafts thru my open window
Moon looks down sadly

July 27, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, happinessTags: family, haiku, moon, quarrels, summer 2 Comments

312

latest android app
how you will look elderly
what were they thinking??

July 27, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, haiku for cats, SenryuTags: aging, android, app, elderly, haiku, old age 1 Comment

311

dragonflies mating
in erratic mid-air flight
the Metre High Club

July 26, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, senyru, sex, SummerTags: dragonfly, haiku, mile high club, sex, summer 1 Comment

310

saxes and bones blare
bow-ties knot demselves silly
trying not to dance

July 26, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haikuTags: attraction, charleston, haiku, music 1 Comment

309

years painting bamboo
brush and ink on folding screens
I’ve captured nothing

July 25, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, SenryuTags: bamboo, haiku, senryu, sketches

308

sounds of silk tearing
impalpable wings beating
dragonflies mating

July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, haiku for cats, Senryu, SummerTags: dragonfly, haiku, mating, senryu, summer 1 Comment

307

cats are like sales staff
they avoid going to meetings
unless there’s doughnuts

July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Cats, haiku, SenryuTags: employees, haiku, meetings, sales, senryu, staff 1 Comment

306/ O-Bon Festival in Japan

the dead’s festival
they dance until fireworks
light their way back home

July 25, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, fireworks, haiku, JapanTags: august, dead, departed ones, japan, obon festival 1 Comment

305

teaching chess to kids
no matter what just keep calm
and stay on the board

July 24, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Children, haiku, SenryuTags: calm, chess, life, survival, tutoring 7 Comments

304

on a narrow bed
a bolster along my back
spooning memories

July 23, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, Love, SenryuTags: haiku, nostalgia, romance, spooning 1 Comment