pink balloons
tugging to be free
...peonies

Summer storm
dampens dust and headaches;
brambles stretch.

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summers come and go
the bard goes up the mountain
the faraway peaks

early commute
dew filled roses glisten
in neighbors' yard

lazy afternoon
lunch on the porch
with year's first daylilly

another haijin gone -
willow leaves
dripping


(for Paul O. Williams and James Kirkup)

an idea from The Fire Sermon

the summer
river at Richmond -
discarded
beer bottles paper plates
cigarette ends....

The Fire Sermon T S Eliot

the bush heavy

with pink - the pink

heavy with bees

ruffled clouds

in my confusion

sky looks like sea

Family time
Vapour trails against blue sky
Barbeque.

(image by David, aka "benefit of hindsight," via Flickr)

the farmer's refrain
while garlic rots in wet earth —
next year, next year

(Cross-posted at But Wait, There's More!)

Night Wind

night wind
we catch a firefly
between our hands

relentless sun
my lips meet the cool arc
flowing from the hose

Streams of pebble rock
flowing through the garden
strange thoughts stranded

Morning heat
under a clear blue sky.
Pot plants wilting.

HIGHWAY

Is it the water
or sweat flowing from the cleft
they queue up to drink?
not far away the masons cut
rocks to build a new highway


--R.K.SINGH

Traffic snails through
the water-logged road I feel
a manhole cover


--R K SINGH

washing the patio

fixing lights preparing for

our son's june wedding

taxi at the gate
waving hands at the door
the luggage much heavier

seasons come and go
nothing really matters
in the greenhouse

a hummingbird
follows the falling leaf
my friend's untimely death