one autumn cloud
meandering
pony ride
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James Schlett
James Schlett is an award-winning author, poet and journalist. He is the author of A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers? Camp in the Adirondacks (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015), winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing?s Adirondack Literary Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction in 2015. His prose have been published in Songs of Innocence, New York Archives and the Mid-Atlantic Almanack, and his poetry (mostly haiku) has been published in Nomad?s Choir, The Literary Gazette, Modern Haiku, The Heron?s Nest, Frogpond, Acorn, tinywords, Wild Plum, Akitsu Quarterly and Bottle Rockets. View all posts by James Schlett
autumn sky
pillows on blue
along~the~long~trail
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one autumn cloud
meandering
pony ride
—JAMES SCHLETT
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Glorious focus on one cloud that may be meandering as much as the rider and the pony beneath it.
I'm also reminded of this famous haiku:
moving into the sun
the pony takes with him
some mountain shadow
Jane Reichhold, American Haiku in Four Seasons
Yilin Press, Nanjing, China (1991)
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autumn deepens…
a passenger squirrels away
his season ticket
Alan Summers
Bacopa Literary Review (June 2019) ed. Kaye Linden
Nifty, thought James!
__ Here, with your haiku James, you have caused my minimally echoed scribble, an imagined sight of "horse clouds"; thank you! _
a herd of snow
in trails across this cold sky
clouds a-trot
meandering leaves
behind the sound of shadows
autumn loneliness