Such autumnal hues

cling to the window today

-those new curtains


© Beatrice V

friends hug and part -
in the sky
southbound geese

in the garden
the old lady dozes -
the sunflower's head droops

litter

the green shifts to red
streets littered with summer's leaves
years weigh heavily


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haiku poem

Fallen leaf
Carried by the stream
Dances still

Waving down
a leaf settles between
her breasts

--R.K.SINGH

With roaring winds
the trees wave all night:
autumn in courtyard

--R.K.SINGH

summer fading -
the humming in the garden
dying down

leaf

solitary leaf
drifting softly to the ground
how far it has come


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haiku poem

Rustling

rustling
in the oak leaves...
airplane

Raku vase

Raku vase
Autumn-hued beauty unspoiled
By chrysanthemums

today
a roaring from
the silent trees of summer

the sun is muted
seeing trees deepening to red
with autumn passion

Beatrice V

green

autumn has arrived
auburn leaves are falling
but not over here


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haiku poem

before nureyev
we rise to our feet
in rainsoaked unison
_
the vienna open-air cinema in front of the city hall
is a regular feature during july, aug and early sept -
admission free

at first, clouds gathered

to play hide-and-seek with the sun

now, they fall; and fall

Beatrice V

digging
in the garden
watched by the cat
_

cutting
the posy
of stinging nettles

_
RIP Ivan the cat (1990 - 1st September 2008)

In the autumn sun
old man planting strawberries
for next summer

* * *
Syysauringossa
vanhus istuttaa mansikat
ensi kesäksi

rain clouds gone -
doves' wings
shaking the light

One Line Haiku Dry Grasses

late summer grasses
bleached and brittle to touch
dry seeds scatter

David Loffman

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

Quick Update

traveled 700 miles

but

still in USA

I have a few moments to let you know how I am. I appreciate your warm wishes.

Instead of going to Hot Springs, AK to escape Hurricane Gustav, my parents wanted to go to relatives' home in SW Houston.

Fearing empty gas (petrol) stations on I10West (since I need about 2 tanks of gas to travel from New Orleans to the Houston suburbs), I decided to go another route.

First north traveling through Louisiana and Mississippi, taking a left on I20, going back to Louisiana and into Texas, and then going south on US 59.

It was an adventure to drive 14 hours and drinking so much Coca Cola and coffee without getting ill.

Until I hear the all-clear to return, I stay in Texas.

Later, Isabel

autumn again -
i sit contemplating
an old koan

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tonight's moon
cares not for the fleshy pleasures
of edo's alleys

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autumn -
ploughs darkening
the summer fields

a quartet of magpies -
not a song
amongst them

under the red moon
a courtesan turns on her heel
and walks away

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