flowers – Cycle of Tehara

Haiku June

Six photographs for the sixth month of 2020

The ceiling is collapsing!

6/3

Things falling apart

Our ceiling cannot hold when

Anarchy is loosed

Quit looking at me, Iris.

6/8

Flower confusion:

Irises blue or purple?

Eight percent are blue.

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6/17

I did not feel like

Composing haikus today

For crying out loud

All that fur must be strictly ornamental

6/19

FEAST YOUR EYES UPON

THE FUZZY GLORY OF MY

SOLAR PANEL TUMMY

Sigh…it’s not actually a bag

6/24

The cat’s in the bag

Eyes wide with excitement she’s

Peeking out at me

A plague of damselflies

7/6

Many damselflies

Are attracted to my arm

Only God knows why

Haiku time again

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Pitter patter rain comes down

Thor swings his mighty hammer

Thunder quakes the sky

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Misty, muggy air

The early morning sun sweats

Dewdrops glistening

photo of a flock of flying birds — Photo by Manideep Karne on Pexels.com

Divebombing warbirds

Creating nasty messes

Need magical stuff.

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Crouching on the rock

Brown spots dapple slimy skin

Frog watches then leaps

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STOP A MOMENT FOR

HIBISCUS AND PINK LILIES

DON’T SMELL THE ROSES

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Hop, scurry, cricket

Tries to hide in the bathroom

I caught it anyway

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Time to wend your way

Through turning pathways of a

Sparkly Labyrinth

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Too humid outside

To take a lovely, long walk

This makes me grumpy

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“Why is the rum gone?”

Demands Captain Jack Sparrow.

‘Cause you drank it, fool!

Photo by Kyle Roxas on Pexels.comS

Lonely cracked willow

Supports birds in fragile boughs

Plum water yet beckons

Office Poetry

I like to write silly haiku poetry while at work. Here is a sampling of my efforts over the past six months, alternating with my amateur flower photography.

I hate limericks
I prefer to write haiku
This is easier
A.R. Grimes

I couldn’t help it, they were so yellow and pretty like sunshine!

THE HAIKU TODAY
IS BY NO MEANS ELOQUENT
OR AT ALL FUNNY
ARG

Close-up of a white peony, Georgia O’Keefe style.

EAT PURPLE CABBAGE
IT IS VERY GOOD FOR YOU
UNLIKE MOUNTAIN DEW
ARG

Not a purple cabbage, but a lovely purple iris!

ALICORN PRINCESS
SHOULD BE MY FACEBOOK I.D.
SO MANY PONIES!
ARG

Okay, this is a photo of My Little Pony toys, not flowers. Just thought this would be more appropriate to pair with the haiku. And yes, I do have more than these six ponies in my possession. Pega-sisters unite!

Beautiful sunlight
Let’s blow this Popsicle stand
And all go outside
ARG

It’s a beautiful day…perfect weather to go for a walk on the Glacial Drumlin State Trail.

SOMETHING IN THE AIR
IS MAKING MY HEAD ACHE HERE
I FEEL LIKE BARFING
ARG

Urgh…and then flowers burst out of the toilet?!

FILL EASTER BASKETS
WITH CANDY AND TOYS, BUT KNOW
YOUR REDEEMER LIVES
ARG

Do you see the butterfly?

It’s too nice today
to consider tomorrow’s
forecasted weather
ARG

Her Excellency, Graefin the soot panther definitely agrees.

Too much stuff is bad
Too little of anything
Is also not good
ARG

Confucius say…What the phlox?

Although I claim that
APRIL is the cruelest month,
MAY can be mean, too.
ARG

Yeah, just look at how gloomy it was that day…in May.

NO INTEREST SHOWN
SO TODAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED
GO HOME TO YOUR CAT(S)
ARG

All five of them, in this case. No, these cats are not mine. I was cat-sitting for a friend.

INDUSTRIAL SIZED
HEAVY BALLOONS SLALOMING
ACROSS THE BLUE SKY
ARG

Sorry, kids, no balloons here. Nobody here but us blossoms.

IT’S ALWAYS RAINING
IN THE DARK DEPTHS OF MY SOUL
I NEED SUNSHINE, PLEASE
Google Weather says
That the sun probably will
Peek out of the clouds.
ARG

These are pretty irises.

HOT, STICKY OFFICE
LEADING CAUSE IN CREATING
CRABBY EMPLOYEES
Perfumes can’t cover
Permeating the office
The vile stench of death

me

These peonies are not only lovely but they smell wonderful.

My rule with haiku is to whip one out in less than 2 minutes – usually during my breaks at work – so these were pretty raw and generally silly.

Feel free to comment!