moonlit wild flag irises¹
a flock²of crows cawing all night
1. Wild flag iris (Iris setosa) in a Southeast Alaska meadow. Google: <Iris setosa at Iris Meadows on Kruzof Island near Sitka, Alaska, Tongass National Forest, Alaska Region. Photo by Jim Case, Sitka Ranger District.> The image is in the middle of the three.
2. I’ve been reborn… Google: < No, It's Not Actually a Murder of Crows>
June 5th, 2020 at 1:33 pm
I love irises, but they do not last long … ephemeral, but perennial, too. Lovely haibun!
June 5th, 2020 at 2:39 pm
That is very, very nicely done!
June 6th, 2020 at 5:45 am
Such a lovely image – an Iris tea party!
June 6th, 2020 at 6:09 am
iris tongues—
among the perennials
memories whisper
KLP
June 6th, 2020 at 7:42 am
Loved "the faint rattle of teacups" and gossip, although to be sexist, I imagine the human males spilling the beans far more than other genders! :-)
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I haven't written about the iris flower but…
corn moon
?the jackdaw shifts
its iris
Alan Summers
Asahi Shimbun (International Haiku Day April 17th 2015)
Translated into Bulgarian:
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Translations from English to Bulgarian:
Maya Lyubenova, Tzetzka Ilieva, Vessislava Savova
June 6th, 2020 at 7:43 am
Correction:
corn moon
the jackdaw shifts
its iris
June 7th, 2020 at 2:21 am
moonlit wild flag irises²
a flock¹of crows³cawing all night
1.`I’ve been reborn&hellip ;https://www.audubon.org/news/no-its-not-actually-murder-crows
2. Wild flag iris (Iris setosa) in a Southeast Alaska meadow. Photo by Jim Case, Sitka Ranger District. https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/beauty/iris/ima…
3. a flock of crows in Southeast Alaska… https://tinyurl.com/yb786ogo
June 7th, 2020 at 11:59 am
moonlit wild flag irises¹
a flock²of crows cawing all night
1. Wild flag iris (Iris setosa) in a Southeast Alaska meadow. Google: <Iris setosa at Iris Meadows on Kruzof Island near Sitka, Alaska, Tongass National Forest, Alaska Region. Photo by Jim Case, Sitka Ranger District.> The image is in the middle of the three.
2. I’ve been reborn… Google: < No, It's Not Actually a Murder of Crows>
June 7th, 2020 at 12:20 pm
.
fifth kind encounter
humans replace crows
as an idiom of murder
Alan Summers
The Comfort of Crows
Hifsa Ashraf and Alan Summers
(Velvet Dusk Publishing, December 2019)
June 7th, 2020 at 1:37 pm
comfort station
above the heart murmur’s sound
a flock of crows cawing caw caw caw caw…
June 7th, 2020 at 2:39 pm
crow alert
all the humans
being humans
Alan Summers
June 8th, 2020 at 7:20 am
cooing crows
out of the summer fog
wild irises
June 6th, 2020 at 3:29 pm
Every word fits — it casts a spell!
June 7th, 2020 at 10:59 am
strawberry moon
the pall of the earth’s shadow
June 9th, 2020 at 9:56 am
I too have beige irises, flowering just now in Scotland. This from 10 years ago:
heliotrope heart
frilled beige petals —
did i grow this iris?