Monday, July 06, 2009

V: 036

no goodnight kiss --
driving home under
a half-empty moon
- This is our annual reminder that July 6 is International Kissing Day and July 7 is Chocolate Day. Find out much more and check out related haiku and senryu at the f/k/a post "let's celebrate kissing and chocolate" (July 5, 2008). Despite what the nuns told us in grammar school, kisses and chocolate are heavenly. "simply senryu" is celebrating, too, today.

her chocolate breath
mingles with mine -
easter sunset
.. . . . . orig. pub. Simply Haiku (Winter 2005)

Friday, July 03, 2009

V: 035

. . . during my haiku drought, you'll have to settle for one of my favorite oldies:

fireworks finale!
her eyes return
to the fireflies

.. by David Giacalone - Simply Haiku, Autumn 2007, vol 5 no 3 -

- 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, at my photoblog -

Sunday, June 21, 2009

V: 034


- photo by Arthur Giacalone -


summer solstice
the insomniac
waits for dawn

….. orig. pub. Legal Studies Forum (Vol. XXXII, No. 1. 2008)

late-comers:
fireflies join
the solstice party

. . . . . . dagosan at f/k/a, June 20, 2004

almost sunset
the weekend dad
drags a sled up the hill

. . . orig. pub. Frogpond XXIX: 2 (2006)

- find summer solstice poems here and here at f/k/a; and also go here and here for Father's Day haiku and senryu -

Monday, June 15, 2009

V: 033 - Happy Birthday to Issa

a mid-June nap
interrupted . . .
hailstones
. . . . . . . . . . dagosan
- Happy Birthday to Kobayashi Issa! (born "on the fifth day of Fifth Month, 1763: June 15 on the Western calendar"); see today's Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor -

keeping the beat
of the prayer to Buddha...
hailstones

. . .
stuck in the wrinkles
of my knees...
hailstones
. . . by Kobayashi Issa, translated by Haiku Guy David G. Lanoue

Sunday, June 14, 2009

V: 032 - looking for a shady spot


- oil painting by Kara Matthews LaFrance, Vive LaFrance Design -

old dog and master
jostling
for the tiny spot of shade

. . . . . . orig. pub. Legal Studies Forum (
2005; pages 275 - 276)

- oil paintings available from Kara Matthews LaFrance (my niece), Vive LaFrance Design -

summer solstice:
no shade on either
side of the street

…. orig. pub. Simply Haiku (vol. 6 no. 3, Fall 2008)

Friday, June 05, 2009

V: 031 roberta's rivermoon



…. poem by Roberta Beary -orig. pub. in M. H. Siddiqui’s “Season’s Greetings 2009 Letter: Stream – River”, 2008; pub. pending in ‘nothing left to say‘, King’s Road Press, Hexagram Series, Marco Fraticelli, Ed.); photo: David Giacalone
- see the story behind this haiga at suns along the mohawk -

Saturday, May 30, 2009

V: 030

weed or flower?
she clucks
as he pulls

Monday, May 25, 2009

V: 029

monarch butterfly
on the tip of a shoe -
the rocking chair stops

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

V: 028

reprise from a year ago:

- - see f/k/a for a few more Memorial Day haiku and senryu --


Saturday, May 16, 2009

V: 027



stuffed
into swing seats --
twenty toes touch the clouds

- orig. pub. Simply Haiku (Modern Haiga, Summer 2009, Vol. 7 no. 2) -
photo: Riverside Park, Schenectady, NY, along the Mohawk River (Sept. 25, 2008) -

Sunday, May 10, 2009

V: 026


[photo: arthur giacalone, Highland Park, Rochester, NY]


grayskies
on mother’s day -
grandma’s favorite park


- orig. haiga at MagnaPoets (May 10, 2007) -




- click for the f/k/a mother's day haiku collection -

Thursday, May 07, 2009

V: 025

- reprise: still resting on laurels and lilacs -

first the scent -
lilac bushes
'round the corner

- Simply Haiku, Autumn 2007, vol 5 no 3 -


lilacs
next to trashcans --
the scent of each

.. dagosan's haiku diary (May 2006 and 2007)

Mother's Day --
admiring lilacs
just past their peak

The Heron’s Nest (VIII: 4, December 2006) -

- click for more lilac haiku by f/k/a's Honored Guests -

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

V: 024

chilly fifth of May
serapes huddled
over menudo soup
- ¡Felice Cinco de Mayo! -

Monday, April 27, 2009

V: 023

stormy night
pink blossoms
fill the gutter

- - see Schenectady's cherry blossoms at suns along the Mohawk (2009) and f/k/a (2008); plus simply senryu --