Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts

Monday, September 2, 2013

Seasonal Haiku


1

Hurricane season---
waves rear up like wild horses,
the wind goes crazy.

2

Summer is ending.
The first few leaves turn yellow---
at night the air cools. 

3

The days grow shorter...
at night the stars seem brighter...
morning mist lingers.

4

Halloween tonight...
children hiding behind masks,
Ancient Ones watching.

5

Pumpkins with faces
carved to keep away evil,
fire in their eyes.

6

Early November...
sun sleeps on the forest floor
blanketed in leaves.

© Jean Sampson, 2013

Ancient Ones Watching
Photo by Tony Russell

Monday, August 29, 2011

Harvest

In winter,
when the sun is a dandelion
seeded with ice,
all I can give you of summer
is this fading red, yellow, orange
the fall tree released.

If I offer you
this harvest of light
gleaned from long days
with firefly twilights,
will you lift your hands
 into the sky,
two birds singing
songs of praise?
© Jean Sampson, 2011

Fallen leaves; photo by Tony Russell