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Month: September 2015

410

ghosts in river smoke
drifting dogwood and bird calls
scraps of battle flags

September 30, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, death, poem, poems, poetry, WarTags: haiku, history, south, war

409

our morning prayer
a sound almost forgotten
it’s rain chanting back

September 30, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Fall, haiku, Northern California, poem, poems, poetry, senyruTags: Buddhist, drought, Gongyo, haiku, Nichiren, petrichor, rain, SGI

408

for one afternoon
the small meadow of flowers
surrounds a new grave

September 29, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, death, haiku, life, Life-Death, poem, poems, poetryTags: floral, flowers, funeral, grave, haiku, headstone, memorial

407

moon of blood, some say
how one is, is how one sees
blushing Georgia peach

September 26, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Fall, haiku, Philosophy, poem, poems, poetry, senyruTags: blood moon, fall, haiku, harvest moon, moon, prophecy 1 Comment

406

garlands of tail lights
bright in an evening’s commute
rubies and roses

September 25, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, Northern California, poem, poems, poetry, senyruTags: automobiles, cars, commute, congestion, haiku, roses, rubies, traffic 3 Comments

405 / tanka

for jacking prices
on drugs five thousand percent
I will seek you out

to bargain with in Hades
a small drop of ice water

September 24, 2015September 25, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Economics, elderly, Health, poem, poems, poetry, TankaTags: drugs, exploitation, greed, news, pharmaceuticals, tanka 1 Comment

404

little summer friends
wanting just a suck of blood
I’m ungenerous


September 24, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Friendship, haiku, poem, poems, poetry, summerTags: blood, bugs, fleas, friends, haiku, summer 1 Comment

403

old men at starbucks
coffee and pie forty cents
1965

September 22, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Economics, haiku, senyruTags: coffee, haiku, inflation, nostalgia, senryu, starbucks

402


big bushy gray tail
sprints up a telephone pole
skyway of wires

September 22, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, environment, haiku, Northern California, poems, poetryTags: haiku, nature, squirrels, telephone wires, urban nature

401

late night taking out
the garbage– how do stars
clean after themselves?

September 20, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, environment, haiku, senyruTags: garbage, haiku, recycle, stars, trash, universe 8 Comments

400/s

shimmering above
waves of glistening water
waves of long white wings

September 18, 2015January 16, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Birds, Bruce Jewett, haiku, Northern California, poems, poetry, WildlifeTags: birds, haiku, ocean, sea, seabirds, waves 2 Comments

399

buddha statue sits
facing Highway 101
torrents of folly


  

from Google Earth



September 18, 2015September 19, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, Northern California, poem, poetry, senyruTags: buddha, haiku, highway 101, Redwood City, traffic

398

ducklings and mother
marching to the swimming pool
she shoos cats away

September 17, 2015February 12, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Cats, Family, haiku, poems, poetry, WildlifeTags: cats, ducks, haiku, mothers, swimming pools 8 Comments

397

raindrops on windshield
such a pity to wipe off
waiting all summer

September 17, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, drought, haiku, Northern California, Senryu, senyru, summerTags: haiku, rain, senryu, water, windshields 1 Comment

396

on parched yellow hills
light bouquets of petrichor
left by the first rain



September 17, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, drought, Fall, haiku, Northern California, poems, poetry, summerTags: drought, haiku, hills, petrichor, rain 4 Comments

395

last light seeping through
branches– summer sinks away
a child’s paper boat

September 16, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, poem, poetry, summer, treesTags: haiku, light, paper boat, summer 1 Comment

394

my friend’s funeral
chances to schmooze and network
her paintings for sale

September 14, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, Life-Death, memorial, poem, poetry, SenryuTags: art, funeral, haiku, memorial, senryu 5 Comments

393

bled dry by branches
they do not willingly leave
what supported them

September 13, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Economics, Fall, haiku, jobs, poems, poetry, SenryuTags: autumn, fall, haiku, laid off, lay offs, leaves, trees 1 Comment

392

chopping fire breaks
on a hill of dying trees
clusters of deer watch

September 12, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, deer, drought, haiku, haiku for cats, poem, poetryTags: drought, haiku, trees, weather 1 Comment

391

sutra of lotus
flowering in the mire
galaxies bow down

September 11, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Buddhism SGI, haiku, Metaphysics, Philosophy, poems, poetryTags: haiku, lotus, micropoetry, nam myoho renge kyo 3 Comments

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