jokes

Telling bawdy jokes,
These crows, do little else
To welcome the autumn.

caskets

Jumping crickets

In search of winter homes?

Or tiny caskets?

friends

Woodpecker you're back!

Did you have a good summer?

With family, or friends?

geese

Screams of bloody murder

Geese next door so excited

All for the postman!

scream

This evening's moon 
Held hostage 
To an owl's scream.

window

A lost butterfly

I, too, see my heart beating

Between window panes.

umbrella

Hibiscus rain
Autumn's late bloomer,
The red umbrella's!

kiss

 

Puckering my lips,
Meeting the full moon head on,
Lunging for a kiss!

rubies

An autumn sunset

Forest flickers with rubies

Trees wearing red rings.

nothing

The honeybee
Between my fingers finding

Sweet nothing.

moon

Afternoon moon,
Only witness to fig tree
Amputation.

sailing

Sunflower seed
Sailing across the terrace,
The mighty ant!

dressed

Dressed in solitude
But for the woodpecker;
Cold autumn morning!

indian

In the marketplace
Finding the right price
For indian summer.

pillow

Midnight worries
Carving a large dragon
From my pillow.

white

Evening swallows,
On the menu tonight:
Plate of white clouds!

fall

As the Catalpa leaves
Wither, so too, memories
Fall without sound.

remorse

September mistral
Tickling small crocus
Without remorse.

Oh!

Oh!.. the autumn ants!
Don't you ever think
Of playing badminton?

weeping

Yellow bulldozer!

Across the forrest floor

A pine tree weeping.

sleep

Solitary owl
Counting your plaintive cries
Into my sleep.

budding

The budding waistline
Dictating decisions 
Concerning dinner.

glass

Shattering glass sky,
Perched over the moist lawn,
Hysterical crow!

sink

Trapped in morning sink
Spider plans escape
Through dirty wine glass

brief

Two owls in the night
Alone in bed, through window
Hear their brief love cries.

empty

Gone the summer guests,
Empty sofas and chairs,
The empty flowers!

unhappy

An unhappy bird
Jolting me from reverie.
Morning meditation.

call

                                                        
                                                
A foreign bird call.
Without a dictionary,
My misunderstanding.

plums!

Inebriated!
A night of butterflies
and late summer plums.

pink

Watching oleanders 
Go nowhere this morning.
The pink propellors!