Winter

cold blistering wind

blowing snowflakes and white dust

welcome winter land

trees wrapped like cocoon

animals hibernating

until frost, ice melts

Haiku Heights - Prompt # 75 Winter 

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Street sounds

fire engine blaring

along crowded narrow street

alas, false alarm

~0~0~

clock chimes five sharp

tall buildings in a row sighed

as feet rushed outside

~0~0~

national game day

horns and whistles blowing loud

street full of colours  

Posted for Haiku heights - prompt is Chime.

In Tandem:   picture credit:   Jinksy

Waves

water crashing shore
never ending weaving
time and motion

roar of waves
singing, dancing in
unbroken rhythm

seashells on grey sands
swept by morning rush   
waits for turning tide

green algae float
salty brine flowing
streams into streams

swirling, crushed corals
clinging to soles of feet 
dusting footprints in sand

a pebble flies into air  

  
Author's Note:   I don’t know where it will land.  Some changes in my work life are coming.   More demanding and technical job in another city further away from home. 

I will know by next week.  

Posted for Poetry Jam - hosted by Dani and Flash Fiction Friday with G-man.  Yes, my other blog :-)

     

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Leaves

brown, red, yellow leaves

slowly spinning to the ground

fall's welcome carpet

curled leaves on grass 

raking them neatly in piles

takes all my patience

Haiku Heights:  Prompt # 73 is Patience

Poetry form:  Haiku (3 lines, 17 syllables)

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Maple tree

Japanese maple

tree of autumn's splendour

casting colourful spell


Umbrella of fire
blooming amidst cool season
belle of the fall

russet autumn leaves

flooding the city's landscape

nature's wallpaper

Haiku Heights:   Prompt # 69 free topic (Maple Tree) and Prompt # 70 is Flood.


Poetry form:   Haiku (3 lines, 17 syllables)


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Blue Moon

the world turned blue

when pining words in letter

returned:   unknown address

full blue moon rising

over colored freckled clouds

portent of magic

Posted for Haiku Heights - Challenge.   Prompt # 67 is Yearn and Prompt # 68 is Magic.
Also for:  In Tandem 

Picture credit:  Jinksy

Rain

soft patter of rain

falling on green leafy shrubs

hardened by the sun

peering under leaf

waiting for the rain to stop

to leap out of sight

Written for Haiku Heights :   Prompt # 68 is Hidden

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Mesmerizing

flock of  birds swarming 

calm waters glowing as sun sets

mesmerizing 

Author's Note:  Posted for Haiku Heights # 65 - Prompt is Hypnotic.  

Haiku form (3 lines, 17 syllables).  

Sky

I cannot touch you

but you make me dream of you

gazing pink hued sky 


~0~0~




Unadorned, I gaze  
your beauty flourishing each day 
magnificent

Author's Note:  Posted for In Tandem and Haiku Heights: prompt # 62 - Sky (my choice) and prompt 63 # Flourish

Picture credit:    Jinksy

Windmill

blue skies far away

old windmill by river bend

reminders of home

Haiku Heights Challenge:   Prompt is Windmill


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