cranberry bog
my inhibitions rise
to the surface
Author: Deborah P Kolodji
Deborah P Kolodji moderates the Southern California Haiku Study Group, which meets monthly in Pasadena, CA at the Pacific Asia Museum. A former president of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, she is the California Regional Coordinator of the Haiku Society of America. She has published over 800 haiku.
wharf bird commotion
a sea lion
rolls over
she stakes out
her own path
climbing rose
cluster
of barrel cactus
morning glow
kudzu
those things
we neglect
pear blossoms
another parking ticket
for my stolen car
red Martian sky
the differences
between us
a bullfrog
hits the lower registers
weeping willow song
the creek
where she was baptized
sun after rain
the news
no one wants…
waning moon
fall migration
the growing flock
of binoculars
floating purple–
my daydreams follow
the water hyacinth
cormorants glide
over orange bull kelp–
autumn sea
leonids —
the sparkle
in her laugh
roadside bison
the cowboy aims
his digital camera
the itch
in your absence
poison oak
orange dragonfly
over the koi pond
Hiroshima Day
Hiroshima Day
in the friendship garden
flashes of koi
orionids —
even the sky can’t sleep
tonight
lost in the desert–
the August moon
fills up the sky
pulsing sea jellies
a symphony orchestra
on mute
seagrass
a folded ochre star
in the tidepool
six ants
come out of his laptop —
summer school
the wait
to take a driving test . . .
ants on the sidewalk
red tail lights
I decide we’re going
to eat take-out
lemon blossoms
freshly laundered shirts
on the clothesline
glimpse of a deer —
I reach for my camera
too late
grey drizzle —
a yellow rose bobbing
petals down
pot of shamrocks
growing on the windowsill
brogue in the wind
approaching storm —
his daughter hasn’t told him
about the car dent
wild flock of parrots
sudden multitude of green
on winter branches
jacaranda blooms
carpeting May city streets
purple confetti
bareroot rose bundles
on sale at the discount store
already sprouting