Haiku Diem blog http://www.haikudiem.com/blog one new haiku a day Sun, 27 May 2012 02:32:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 day 688 http://www.haikudiem.com/blog/2012/05/26/day-688/ http://www.haikudiem.com/blog/2012/05/26/day-688/#comments Sun, 27 May 2012 02:32:20 +0000 Haiku Diem http://www.haikudiem.com/blog/2012/05/26/day-688/ hummingbirds
keeping their scant mass
to themselves
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that late in the day
awakens
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of the landmark church
gnawed by light
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reappears, and then
the small sun
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where we used to hear
a dial tone
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rising, extending
its branches
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dreams of pouring rain
bright morning
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fighting undertows
windblown bee
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shirts pressed up against
their shadows
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nightlong insistence
unanswered
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next to the old man
a beetle
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the sound of nothing
on the move
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of the pile driver’s
silences
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bowed in lone moment
my mother
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stone edges worn down
like daylight
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crown of the maple
shimmering
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too many far hills
says the sun
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on the bus reading
from one book
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perched; swift scamper, flight:
the wild things

in memory of Maurice Sendak (June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012)

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emanating from
an old well
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of the weightless past
in starlight
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through the frozen night
sap rising
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looking like it knows
its business
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of lights in window
the dark trees
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chewing slowly on
each other
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egret’s wing slicing
through my mind

Inspired by this photo by Kyle Marquardt:

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light’s slow fade and rise
empty sky
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gaze at the distance
between days
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a thumb and finger
measuring
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the emptiness shaped
between stars
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the face of nothing
clear as day

Inspired by this photo by Uma Sharma:

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dimensionless dusk
power lines
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from short sidewalk strip
lost again
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another slow step
DMV
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lifting us again
into day
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and churning water
are one wave


photo by Mark Middleton

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one untrimmed branch strains
to touch us
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followed closely by
his shadow
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the space where it stood
heaviness
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on the feathered black
of the crow
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the crow’s lifted wing
against sky
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the crow’s flight passing
into night
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the crow alighting
on the day
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like their observers
entangled
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like their observers
entangled
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in the puddle too
only gray
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in the asphalt night
one clear call
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in steady drizzle
shadowless
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in relentless wind
bows deeply
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Holy Wednesday

risen day
on the other side
of the clouds

Maundy Thursday

of the clouds
sings the garden soil
on our feet

Good Friday

on our feet
watching daylight die
small vigils

Holy Saturday

small vigils
along window sills
the bean sprouts

Easter Sunday

the bean sprouts
slowly lift their heads
risen day

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slowly lift their heads
risen day
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along window sills
the bean sprouts
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watching daylight die
small vigils
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sings the garden soil
on our feet
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on the other side
of the clouds
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straining to uproot
the lamp post
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brightening, dimming,
on the desk
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in the roaring wind
her lip gloss
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through bamboo branches
small mountains
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looking taller now
in sunlight
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beneath changing skies
the bamboo
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over the landscape
light and dark
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in distance beneath
dark clouds’ drift
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the familiar air
of my life
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for just a moment
beneath clouds
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shivering in rain
the blossoms
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baby on her chest
heart to heart
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the road that was there
all the time
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silent fall amidst
wind and rain
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as if in alarm
raised in sleep
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the ice covered car
sparkling
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all that can be seen
and the road
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does night sing in its
altered pitch?
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of daylight above
the swift cars
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the ghostly tire tracks’
slow fading
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of morning traffic
on wet streets
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music off, mind blank
on the bus
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of broken windows
framed by shards
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sand piled up in dunes
black wood sea
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in distant cities
melting flakes
]]> http://www.haikudiem.com/blog/2012/03/09/day-610/feed/ 0 Bjorn that day http://www.haikudiem.com/blog/2012/03/08/bjorn-that-day/ http://www.haikudiem.com/blog/2012/03/08/bjorn-that-day/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:41:35 +0000 Haiku Diem http://www.haikudiem.com/blog/?p=698 On the day my first grandchild was born, March 2, 2012 (day 603) I wrote this haiku in his honor. Then, the next day, I found myself writing another haiku about him, beginning it with the final line of the previous haiku. As longtime readers of these haiku will know, this suggested that a haiku sequence needed to be done, and I dutifully obeyed the impulse.

Here is the complete sequence that eventually came out over five days of Haiku Diem. I dedicate it to Bjorn Freeman Bloodgood.

the same world
except what was born
in the night

in the night
the great gusts that spoke
a new name

a new name
for ‘day’ and also
everything

everything
that can fit within
the child’s eyes

the child’s eyes
open wide upon
the same world

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singing Puccini
to her dog
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the miles suddenly
clear as day

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open wide upon
the same world
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that can fit within
the child’s eyes
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for ‘day’ and also
everything
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the great gusts that spoke
a new name
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except what was born
in the night
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of unfallen rain
on the air
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full of that which waits
to be born
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of falling sunlight
speak a name
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solitude beneath
the street lights
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the moon apace with
the walker
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revealing the stars
the lit homes
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reach for the last light
darkness falls
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worn and familiar
as the trees
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something small that passed
across sand
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refrigerator
goes silent
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always so clear in
the paintings
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an unseen design
on the bay
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