Tree in winter

Spring foliage flown

Warm sparks of autumn a memory,

now beautiful in cool simplicity

Free of leafy distractions

the strong and experienced branches

Allow for further vistas; field, stream, sky

How like the winter of my life

And looking closely, I notice the buds of new life

In my heart, and on the cool, simple branches.

Haiku for departing friend

Indigo ocean

Seduces our friend

We are blue.

Observations of a sparrow.

Sky brilliantly calling

I fly in freedom

Til I remember

my broken wing

and tumble into fear

til the One who sees 

every sparrow fall 

catches me

Again.

underground

I buried treasure

stolen from summer

hibernating blue

slumbering gold

like sleeping beauty

waits for the kiss

of May. 

metamorphis

Color abandoned branches

 floating, coral-like

shelter little creatures

of the grey sky ocean.

Honey

The bee in my garden

works alongside me

humming a song of gratitude

for her impossible flight.

Haiku for Home

Wee yellow cottage

Dense with love

Shelter from the world