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maples at sunrise
each crimson leaf luminous
each tree a starburst

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November 30, 2015January 16, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: Autumn, Bruce Jewett, Fall, haiku, trees

451

late fall– cats make peace
burrow under the blankets
hearth of my belly

November 28, 2015November 28, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Autumn, Bruce Jewett, Cats, Fall, felines, haiku, poem, poems, poetryTags: cats, fall, haiku, senryu, warmth

450

roofs motley with leaves
reds, golds, and yellows shimmer
ghosts of morning rise

November 25, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Autumn, Bruce Jewett, environment, Fall, haiku, treesTags: autumn, condensation, fall, haiku, morning

449

my aunts sheer terror
feds coming to arrest her
phone message says so

November 24, 2015November 24, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, poem, poems, poetryTags: elderly, grifting, haiku, phone fraud, scam

448

a dry November
whispers of rain bring comfort
a benediction

November 23, 2015November 23, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Autumn, drought, Fall, haiku, poem, poems, poetryTags: benediction, haiku, rain

447

Winter closes in,
except for a few buskers
crickets have all gone

November 20, 2015November 20, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Autumn, Bruce Jewett, Fall, haiku, poem, poems, poetry, WinterTags: buskers, crickets, fall, haiku, seasons

Dark Matter tanka

Creation’s a tree
of ornaments, lights, tinsel
so bedazzling
its dark branches go unseen
cradling the galaxies.

November 17, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, poem, poems, poetry, Tanka, WinterTags: astronomy, dark matter, haiku, physics, tanka 4 Comments

446

whiskers and purrs rub
against my first morning cup
of hot, black coffee

November 17, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Cats, coffee, felines, haiku, poem, poems, poetryTags: cats, coffee, haiku 1 Comment

445

goats visiting my yard
munching on jack-o-lanterns
the morning after

November 16, 2015November 16, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Autumn, Bruce Jewett, Children, Fall, haiku, poem, poems, poetryTags: goats, haiku, Halloween, pumpkins

11/13/15

Butcher, breaker
Decapitator
Enjoy the virgins
Of heaven
May they be all
The mangled corpses
You made on earth.

November 15, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Political, slavery, WarTags: Isis, mass murder, Paris, slaughter 1 Comment

444

where are the songbirds
are they in rehearsal rooms
practicing for spring

November 15, 2015November 15, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Birds, Bruce Jewett, Fall, SpringTags: birds, haiku, songbirds, spring, winter 2 Comments

443

a new Paris film
latest acts of holocaust
zombies have the guns

November 13, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, haiku, PoliticalTags: haiku, holocaust, Isis, massacare, Paris, slaughter

442

puff of down drifting
on voices of those chanting,
prayer uplifting 

November 13, 2015November 13, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Bruce Jewett, Buddhism SGI, Fall, Family, Friendship, haiku, Nam myoho renge kyo, Nichiren, PhilosophyTags: daimoku, Gongyo, haiku, micropoetry, Soka Gakkai 2 Comments

441

God dotes on sparrows
not news for crows and blackbirds
feeding on asphalt

November 13, 2015November 13, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Autumn, Birds, Bruce Jewett, Economics, haikuTags: haiku

440

a November day
flags and leaves in the grey wind
names etched in granite

November 10, 2015November 16, 2015 by brucejewett Categories: Autumn, Bruce Jewett, death, Fall, haiku, Life-Death, memorialTags: fall, flag, haiku, memorial, the wall, trees, veterans day