Haiku

2009 Haiku
January 1
Blank lines in ledger
Redwood trees stand straight and tall
Welcome the New Year!

January 3
Beige dogs frolicking
Brown, tan, sand, russet, ecru
Platinum Neria


January 4
The silvered hillside
Will melt with Sun's golden rays
The force is with us.

January 6, 2009
Flames leaping, dancing
Halloween orange and black
Logs snapping, crackling

January 7
Grey low tule fog
Muffling the wide pasture land
Dandelion fluff

January 8
Brown, round mushroom caps
Lure us deeper into woods
Hansel and Gretel

January 9
The doe, legs leaping
Now lies still under the fence
It happened so fast!

January 10
High on the hill
Sun flashes from window panes
Reservoir reflects

Jan 11
Obsidian birds
Hippity and hoppity
Kwawk! Kwawk! For peanuts

January 14
Honk! Honk! Splashshsh!
Canada geese lifting off
And land in the water

January 17 Cathedral of Christ the Light, Oakland
Arching wooden ribs
Protect and shelter us all
Surrounded by light

January 18
Happy Birthday me
76 trombones blare
Blow out the candles

January 19
Ambling single file
Black and white in pastures green
Winsome Holstein cows

January 20 Obama inauguration
California
Buzzing bees swarming for warmth
Washington DC

January 21
Black loam, clear plastic
Checkerboard fields lie waiting
For the spring plantings

January 22
Dawn in the valley
Angel hair fog drapes oak trees
Clouding the landscape

January 23
Silence of redwoods
Pitter pat pitter pat beads
Fog drip or rain drops?

January 24
Dark green prickly leaves
Scarlet toyon berries
It is not holly

January 25
Black, white, orange
Colors of calico cat
Angel Island burn

January 26
Against greening fields
Mustard color mustard blooms
The redwing blackbird

January 30
Roaring down the road
Black jackets, helmets, high boots
Angry bumblebees

January 31
Little white candles
The Zigadene blooms early
Zip a dee do dah!


February 5
On nature's canvas
The oil paints smudge together
Fields of green and gold

February 6
Whispers in the night
Soft splatterings on the deck
Winter rains begin

February 10
Green spikey flowers
Slinky stems and spotted leaves
Fetid Adder's tongue

February 14
Curtain of rain drops
Falls to thunderous applause
Bravo! Bravo! More!

February 14
Anticipation
Rainy Day Falls starts to flow
And the other one