Some Summer Haiku

Of Birds, Cactus, Sun, & Stars

Some haiku, yes, but first a celebration in free verse because we have...

Cholla in Bloom

As I look up, I see you
With gray head and wrinkled arms,
Wearing a crown of scarlet and coral
To celebrate the high days of summer.

And as I look down the hill,
I see you again:
Slight and silver,
With a boisterous flock of flowers
Like vermilion doves
Sheltering from the sun.

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And now for some haiku. Its brief form seems to suit these warming weeks very well.

Birds are chattering,
yet the cloudless sky creates
enormous silence

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This haiku was written before the poem that begins this post. I simply wasn’t finished with the imagery. I decided to feature both, despite the redundancy of vision and words.

Watch the gray cholla
wearing a vermilion crown
for high summer days

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Doves land on the wire,
fly off with clamoring wings:
below them, the sun

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Magic of midnight:
looking up to see whether
stars fall through trees

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