Our new new permanent website The Four Seasons is at

www.4seasonshaiku.com

And that's that......

Thank you, dear friends, for all your work , your grace, your eloquence and your love for haiku's. I had fun doing this; I'm glad I took up the responsibility, because it has given me the catalyst to write again, something I had given up on. Heres looking towards Winter!!

No shadow

No stars

No moon

No care

November

It only believes

In a pile of dead leaves

And a moon

That’s the color of bone

November’s cold chain

Made of wet boots and rain

And shiny black ravens

On chimney smoke lanes

~Tom Waits~

Freezing tent cocoon
Glows translucent in the mist;
Caterpillars gone.

Thick bramble bushes;
Last desiccated apple;
Crows cry in slate sky.

your eyes catch mine
as I stare into the clouds-
autumn daydream

frost

dry leaf
now brittle
with frost


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christmas haiku poetry

last autumn haiku

reading outdoors
between pages
a dry leaf


it's been fun. thanks for the ride. :)


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haiku poem examples

wind

gust of wind
tired leaf
lets go


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christmas haiku poetry

church

ruined church
leaves fall
among the weeds


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christmas haiku poetry

into winter

autumn mist
slipping and sliding
towards winter

© 2008, Gerald England


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weekend afternoon
red leaves skip down the street
behind the kids

Last call.......

OK folks, this went a day longer than planned, thanks to a pinched nerve in my back that more or less incapacitated me yesterday and the day before, but by the end of the day, we will be in to full swing with Winter Haiku 2008/2009. So if you've got one last Autumn Haiku, todays the day to get it out!

crow's surreal morning -
watching the water
beneath the ice

first frost -
the postman's
crackling footsteps

Red apples hanging
from bare branches
the fallen ones -
Blackbirds take care of.

icy morning -
one more cup of coffee
before I leave

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matin glacial -
un dernier café
avant de partir


[inspired by Bob Dylan's song : One More Cup of Coffee (Desire)]

Bare Trees - a final post

today the horizons
retreat into vague grey
bare branches

Photo Bare Trees by anOnymOusmuse

http://www.conjuringsunlight.blogspot.com/

Dead Leaves - a final post

suddenly a limp and shrivelled fist of leaves

Photo Dangle by stirwise

www.conjuringsunlight.blogspot.com

among the fallen apples
a fallen summer-
house

thinking of you
today, only today,
but no words-
leaves whisper my story
as they fall softly

Thanksgiving grace--
peeking to spy a young niece
peeking back

autumn death throes
Christmas trees unloaded
at plant nursery

brittle

brittle leaf
rain soaked
in pieces


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christmas haiku poetry

fallen leaves
fill the hammock--
autumn repose

two days til turkey
finishing all leftovers
to make room in fridge

frosty mist -
the spider's
decorated the cherry tree