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Haiku-a-day
Seeds from tall sow thistle float into the air on a sunny day in September.

September wind sails the seeds
from the soft sow thistle heads —
it’s how things begin.

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Haiku-a-day
A clouded sulphur butterfly perched on a tall sow thistle turning to seed on a sunny day in September.

Thistle goes to seed,
her pale green wings like two sails,
she and I are small.

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A red-legged grasshopper clings to a screendoor on a sunny day in September.

Patient grasshopper,
I water the marigolds,
two weeks before fall.

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A Great-spangled fritillary butterfly landing on a white snakeroot on a sunny day in late summer.

The fritillary
takes a rest on the snakeroot,
wings of crescent moons.

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A blurred early morning view of a sidewalk by apartments with the setting moon against a dark blue sky.

Early on Sunday
out under the setting moon,
we’re changed and we’re changed.

Jennifer Farinajfarina, jenniferfarina, art, artist, abstractart, abstract, artwork, artstudio, originalartwork, painting contemporaryart, creative, haiku, watercolorpainting, nonrepresentationalart, poetry, personalessay, painter, annarbor, wabisabi, brushstrokes, ink drawing, handmade, sketchbook, collage, cut paper collage, paperstars, imperfect, impermanent, incomplete, sky, moom, moonComment
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A treeline after sunset with clouds still showing but stars coming out.

Taking our turn here —
trying not to lose our touch
under tender skies.

Jennifer Farinajfarina, jenniferfarina, art, artist, abstractart, abstract, artwork, artstudio, originalartwork, painting contemporaryart, creative, haiku, watercolorpainting, nonrepresentationalart, poetry, personalessay, painter, annarbor, wabisabi, brushstrokes, ink drawing, handmade, sketchbook, collage, cut paper collage, paperstars, imperfect, impermanent, incomplete, treeline, evening sky, cloudsComment
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Pond fish gather and point in all different directions just below the surface of a sun-dappled pond in late summer.

The late summer fish
gather as we approach them
at the warm, deep pond.

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A September sunrise with puffy mackerel clouds against bright blue sky.

I’m wrongly forlorn,
the wonderland we’ve been in
has never been lost.

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A white-tailed deer stands eating thistle leaves with goldenrod in bloom behind it in late summer.

We hear her crunching
in a patch of tall thistle
as we walk out our grief.

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His nose is awake —
under every green leaf,
sadness and delight.

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Haiku-a-day
A treeline after sunset with clouds still showing but stars out.

There’s grief in these trees,
clouds of the day still showing,
stars just coming out.

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A white water lily opening on the surface of a lake among lily pads in summer.

The water lily,
it’s embroidered in, tied off,
like a French knot.

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Two orange striped clouds in the pre-dawn sky above a silhouetted treeline.

Up two hours ago,
I was here with Orion,
moon under the trees.

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A honeybee upside-down in a water lily feeding on pollen in late summer.

Nose first, he’s in love
bee and the water lily,
only three in bloom.

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A view of tall grass below a dramatic cloud against blue sky and a low sun in late summer.

August will give way,
everything at its peak
will start to fall down.

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A view of afternoon sun reflected on ripples on a river in late summer.

This river is me,
I could shape it with my hands,
minnows for the heart.

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A view of afternoon sun behind tall trees in late summer.

Hawks and kingfishers
make rounds above the river
while we change below.

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