Friday, December 23, 2011

still standing - Christmas 2011















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.
leaning into the wind
holiday smiles
bright as ever

- photo taken Dec. 1, 2011, Schenectady NY Stockade Historic District, Lawrence Circle - 

Thursday, September 22, 2011

VII: 005

















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morning fog
the old dog finds
our way home

- photo: foggy morning along the Mohawk River, Riverside Park, Schenectady, NY (29Sep2011) -


Tuesday, June 21, 2011

VII: 004


 summer solstice!
 my haiku muse
                  calls in sick

- originally posted June 21, 2006, and truer than ever - 
-- photo: Riverside Park along the Mohawk River, Schenectady NY, by d.a. giacalone

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

VII: 003

birdseed
on melting snow
a black cat waits for breakfast
- Good Cause: send a breakfast picture to http://shareyourbreakfast.com/ and Kellogg's will give a breakfast to a kid who needs it.

Monday, February 14, 2011

VII: 002

Valentine's Day
after the thaw
thin ice

- nonetheless, a romantic pair of flamingos visit the Schenectady Stockade -



frost on
the flamingo’s beak -
Valentine breakfast alone
reprise:


Thursday, February 03, 2011

VII: 001 year of the rabbit



New Year snow
the hill much steeper
climbing back up
.



Sunday, December 26, 2010

VI: 019

blust'ry Boxing Day
an inflatable Santa
bends with the wind

Friday, December 03, 2010

VI: 018




morning shadows -
the gunslingers wait
for high noon

Arthur Giacalone: photo
David Giacalone: haiku
- first published in b&w at HaigaOnline 7-2 (Autumn-Winter 2006)

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

VI: 017



long vigil –
a yellow daylily
starts to open

. . . in mem. Peggy Lyles (1939-2010). See the Haiku Foundation tribute Peggy Willis Lyles at their weblog Troutswirl (September 6, 2010)

. . . see our memorial tribute “let us celebrate Peggy Lyles” (Oct. 9, 2010)

Friday, August 27, 2010

VI: 16

August breeze
chimes and crickets
lull her to sleep

. . . for Loraine . .

Thursday, August 12, 2010

VI: 15



lull in the parade
small hands reach
for the same balloon

- orig. version of poem pub. 45th WHA Haiga Contest (May 2007) (May 2007); photo by Arthur Giacalone
- above poem and haiga are the revised, non-tell-em versions (thanks to Aurora Antonovic), originally at MagnaPoets Japanese Form (June 1, 2007) in a b&w version

Sunday, July 04, 2010

VI: 014

Fourth of July
the parade starts
at the shopping mall


http://giacalonephotos.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/jjfw10-water4.jpg

- photo by David Giacalone (July 2, 2010) along the Mohawk River, Schenectady NY -
- find fireworks (and watermelon) haiku and senryu by the f/k/a family of poets here; and photos of the annual Jumpin' Jack's fireworks display in Scotia, NY, taken from my backyard along the Mohawk River, there, for 2009, and there for 2010, at my photoblog -

Friday, July 02, 2010

VI: 013 BabyBarista makes his move (again)

casual Friday
the baby barrister
unbuttons his vest
Very best wishes to my blawg buddy Tim Kevan, who moves his BabyBarista weblog to The Guardian's blossoming Law Section today. Read about the move here; recall the history of BabyBarista at f/k/a. The Guardian is one smart newspaper/website.

I wish I had some new haiku and senryu to celebrate, but will have to make-do with a few oldies this morning.
midway through the argument
opposing counsel
crosses her legs


the taste
of coffee -
the aftertaste


mid-argument
the senior partner
has a senior minute



snack room —
the litigator takes
a third of the donuts

fresh coffee brewing
gotta go
gotta go

Monday, June 21, 2010

VI: 012

summer solstice
our window chime
perfectly still