reading something
in the autumn wind
dry leaves
Published by
Jane Reichhold
Jane Reichhold has published eighteen books of haiku, renga or tanka. The most recent books are Writing and Enjoying Haiku: A Hands-on Guide published by Kodansha International and A String of Flowers, Untied. . . Love Poems from The Tale of Genji from Stone Bridge Press. Founder and editor of AHA Books, she has also published Mirrors: International Haiku Forum, Geppo, for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and she had co-edited with Werner Reichhold, Lynx for Linking Poets for ten years. Lynx went online in 2000 in AHApoetry.com, the web site Jane started in 1995. She lives near Gualala, California with Werner, her husband, and a Bengal cat named Buddha. View all posts by Jane Reichhold
HI:
I love the play on the words dry leaves.
Excellent.
Elaine
Yes, there is a shift, a change…but what is it?
Looking up
from my book–
gold leaves gone
A wonderful moment…….
Jane, you took me to my rural Maine mailbox without my even leaving my chair! I’m always “reading something” on the long walk home..
sometimes, there’s autumn winds & dry leaves… Immediacy of moment was, well… right there! Great job.
elaine, there is definitely a play on “dry leaves”
a treasured old book, the pages having become dry.
my first read, it went over my head, however (leave) (no pun intended) it to jane
tree leaves in the autumn wind is rather mundane
have recently read your book “writing & enjoying haiku’ which i found very valuable. thanks.
enjoyed reading this haiku as well – like the different ways it can be interpretated…
this leaf sheds
itself in my book
the tears for late granny
I like the quiet, Zen-like moment this creates. Thanks!
simple yet telling so much. i wish i could
write like this.
beach wind
the tourist refusal
to believe he has cancer
for the fifth time —
the words, rushing
at me
–
A reddish leaf
in the fall breeze –
late love letter
fall day’s a blur —
still for a moment
white stork in the marsh
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