Caring About Our World Reflecting About Life
plum-coloured asters
final flourish of summer
clusters of rapture
©️2018 Ontheland
:
broken by the storm
the asters’ fragrance rises
out of damp earth
©️Jane Reichhold (1937-2016)
memories in wildflowers
sun-kissed pebbles by the sea
(my response)
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Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga challenge #15 inspired me to write about the wild asters behind my garden and to provide a Tan Renga response to Jane Reichhold’s haiku that I intend to be a small tribute to her as a haiku poet and teacher.
duck heads feather tucked
sentinels by the water
standing on one leg
:
in unison
graceful sway of consensus
grasses in the wind
:
first leaf scatter
in autumn winds’ ocean roar
time to surrender
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©️2018 Ontheland
Note: my photo shows both geese and ducks standing on one leg.
waking to thunder
dogs yelp in electric winds
summer finale
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Saturday September 22 is the Autumn Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere.
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clear autumn night
folding ribbons of stars in
infinite darkness
:
how vast the night sky
on the edge of a galaxy
I feel so small
:
poems, words
spill from an ocean of
stardust
:
gazing into space
a splat drops onto my page
an avian poem?
:
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Yesterday I was driving on the 401 to and from Toronto—it was no picnic, in sweltering heat and hours of bumper to bumper traffic crawling next to lines of towering trucks. There were pleasant moments—beyond nibbling buns from a Chinese bakery. Squirrels were everywhere at the downtown park…one boldly snacked in the middle of the roadway…too tame for its own good.
On the highway I contemplated leafy canopies of deciduous trees.
September treetops
leaves slowly changing colour
like my hair
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©️2018 Ontheland
Autumn leaves scatter on the sidewalk a block from home
Back from a first day of school inhaling musty maple
Cool breeze, long sleeves, polished shoes and a flutter of news
Days of firsts dangling fresh books, a new teacher and friends
Etched in memory, each September of slanting light
Fuel for a spirit treading toward dark December nights.
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©️2018 Ontheland
Lillian at dVerse challenged us to write an ‘Alphabet Sestet’, a six-line poem using any consecutive series of alphabet letters to commence each line. I went with ABCDEF.
Inspired by Frank’s 50th Haikai Challenge, I explore some of my recent encounters with autumn winds. They herald the gradual shift from summer to fall:
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a subtle coolness
whiffs of air through the window
autumn is moving in
:
the green tarp is gone
did a thief pass by today?
gusts of autumn wind
:
close to heatstroke
cleaning the shed at summer end
I catch a breeze
:
new winds are blowing
autumn into everything
porch chimes singing
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©️2018 Ontheland
