Some Haiku

(Watercolor, Jane Kohut-Bartels)

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I chase one red leaf

Across dry and brittle grass

Juice of summer gone.

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The garden spiders

Fold their black spindly legs,

Die, all work now done.

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Pale lavender sky

Balances the moon and sun

The scale shifts to night.

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 Fallen leaves crackle.

Sparrows add the treble notes.

Season’s musical.

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Dogwoods blooming

The crucifixion appears

White moths in the night.

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Fall’s crispness compels

Apples to tumble from trees.

Worms make the journey.

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 The frost at morning

Makes the birds plump their feathers

Squirrels add chatter.

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 A swirl of blossoms

Caught in the water’s current

Begins the season.

 

The cold moon shines down

Upon hollow dried grasses.

Earth prepares to sleep.

 

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Jane Kohut-Bartels

Copyrighted, 2018

 

Tags: Haiku, Japanese sensibilities...., poetry