October days
and November in sight
frost on the ground
Category: Haiku
rereading Psalms
rereading Psalms
colors of leaves
a deeper gold
tree farm
tree farm
young trees grow
alongside the old
soft grey sky
soft grey sky
and waves to shore
autumn songs
Lake Michigan in Wisconsin
pictures of my life
pictures of my life
these many years
books on the shelf
The Psalms and Haiku
Deep calleth unto deep *
filling my heart with hope
greater than my mind
The first line of my haiku is from Psalm 42 (KJV).
frost soon
frost soon–
cutting flowers
generously
Published by The TOP, The Tournament of Poetry (October 1995).
above
above
the old garage
autumn treetops
days grow shorter
days grow shorter
gentle turning
of windmills
reading the poets
reading the poets
of my parents’
generation
their voices
return
SMILE, 2010
Reprinted: They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku; Edited by Robert Epstein (2017, Middle Island Press).
