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piano practice leaves swirl allegro con brio
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scudding moon a starfish holds fast to the hull
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neck & neck?? geese
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first names no longer in fashion weathered headstones
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between roots and branches centuries and a child's swing
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autumn wind i take what i want of the apples
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october fest too much oom-pah-pah in the mustard
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leaves in the wind . . . this time i let him go
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godless month a double rainbow spans the mourners
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first snow cascading through cedar a woodpecker's call
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olive sea i disappear into another gray day
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too late to call him dad autumn leaves
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autumn sunset the flutter of the sail as it loses wind
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pale moon my childhood gone with her last breath
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baby photos from my birth mother . . . how do i say hello to me
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lame doe at dusk shifting the weight of my day
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mom's ashes pass through airport security autumn evening
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first night of fall . . . most of the moon spills through the leaves
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another dream about the otherworld?? pressed flowers
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old postcard a steamship voyage on a stamp
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skin is all i know of me . . . distant thunder
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desert motel . . . opening the door to starlight
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screened window the full scent of jasmine
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heirloom roses she crunches eggshell into the black loam
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beads of rain . . . raspberries holding on to summer
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near the horizon a wave forms "touch me there
again"
moonflower a love letter to captain kirk
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city alley the heart of an iris holding rain
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building thunderhead?? the white hydrangea touched with blue
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morning walk the stranger's dog knows my scent
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pock of tennis balls?? the heat
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summit a gnat's weight on my nose
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swallowtail maybe i?ll say yes
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sagging porch my conversation with a stray dog
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home run moths swarm the floodlights
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longest day rolling each awning out to its limit
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bottom of the canyon a brochure of spectacular views
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doll house?? my daughter changes her mind again
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far from home she puts a shell to my ear
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summer stars . . . an actor's bow sweeps the pool of light
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morning tide the seaside town smells of breakfast
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valentine's day?? thawing a wild salmon from the supermarket
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winter solitude another long night where things left off
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awkward silence a guest pinches a sprig of lavender
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spring dusk a turtle laying eggs in railbed cinder
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looseknit sweater?? the spring wind comes to me in a thousand ways
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deep winter i hang my shadow in the closet
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romance ends pot-shaped clods of dirt on the compost pile
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scent of guava a glimpse of my youth in the fruit aisle
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the softness of lamb's ears garden for the blind
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sudden winter the press of cold metal against the paper gown
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holidays over . . . change from someone's pocket between couch cushions
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no desire to talk it through first moon of winter
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this way and that winter sun in a rabbit's ear
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stark tree limbs a cyclist i see every morning
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another new year the reek of gunpowder wafts on the cold night air
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hunger moon the many shades of snow . . .
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a wren at sunrise it seems too early to write of death
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stark tree limbs i have nothing of my hometown
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raging blizzard the gritted teeth of jumper cables
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scent of raked leaves?? an old wound
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autumn sun the man on a bicycle hugs his pumpkin
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autumn twilight i tell the hostel we?re almost there
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black fingers in the dough a hint of winter
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a faint chance of snow ?the right money moves for the year ahead?
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autumn woods my son and i not just dna
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halloween the white cat's black shadow
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the sky gray with voices late geese
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shorter days my medicare card arrives in the mail
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emptying the trap . . . a pumpkin seed between the mouse's teeth
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sun-filled eddy?? a swainson's thrush sings an upward spiral
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turning tide . . . a barnacle waits on a limpet
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first drops a frog syncopates with the cicadas
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same as it was when we were cavemen the moon
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dry september . . . water gurgles in my fish tank
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returning home?? i cross to the cricket's side of the road
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mossy creek bank the days when i could be anything
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a butterfly in her cupped hands end of summer
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misty morning?? lingering smell of cattle in abilene
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cicada song spanish moss dipped in sunlight
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a first kiss on the edge of summer sand in my shoe
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family picnic?? my son runs a finger over his birthmark
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approaching storm . . . a fluorescent swimsuit on the clothesline
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high desert the weathered rock gives up a shell
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scent of her hair wave after wave touches the shore
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bullfrogs croak in the river women harvest stones
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migraine?? the red fan opening fold by fold
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"with a little rain " the color returns
to a stone
carving emoticons in ice cream . . . lonely town
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octopus i already know the way home
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winter solitude the elevator speaks to me
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blowing snow i learn the secrets of the wind
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winter sun . . . the soft flicker of waxwings in the firethorn
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taking a left when i should have gone right spring drizzle
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spring moon her tippy-toes bring her that much closer
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a red fox appears disappears winter wind
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all day writing poems . . . the sound of paper settling in the bin
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a flutter in the doe's flank crocus in snow
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good friday . . . walking to confession in worn shoes
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moon-washed garden wondering what became of the tailless thrush
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