New Years resolution

I'm thinking of making a haiku resolution this year. Part of decompressing each day is to sit down for ten minutes. Most of the time I read. In 2017 i will sit down to write haiku for ten minutes each day after work. If i successfully make it a habit of it YOU will benefit with new haiku to read. Thanks for visiting!

10.08.16

Before you woke up
groceries were in
showerhead changed
shopping done.

I found this old one when i cleaned my desk this week. I'm thinking of doing a series with the first line. I'll let you know what comes of it.

another haiga

Watched movie
saw kelp forest.
I am at a loss
creation awe.

Not a great haiku. Not a great sketch. But you must practice catching art to find good art.

this conversation never happened

Her: Remember that time you came home drunk from Germany?
Him: and left my seven league boots out?
Her: And the cat got into them.
Him: We got calls from three presidents!
Her: And one very hacked off queen.
Both: *sigh*

This conversation never happened. But isn't fantasy fun to write!

10.04.16

did you hear that sound?
my heart just broke
for the two beautiful haiku
I wrote yesterday, on my birthday,
text to myself
and somehow have been deleted off my phone.
There has to be a better way to "write down" haiku while i'm out walking.

Haiga

words overwhelm me
like ocean waves
letters move
I am dyslexic

more art at

http://auntiesartkathy.blogspot.com/

8.23.16

At an event
wishing i had brought a book.
Haiku, my constant friend.

Thinking of people
who i need to love better,
wishing i knew more.

8.15.16

Ancient bestiary
is just old school Photoshop.
Draw on!

Hippo-campus
half horse half fish
is not a Pokemon
but should be.

8.6.16 Haiku Chain

Is it possible
to have a haiku moment?
well i did just now.

Silver crescent moon
cicadas buzzing
in a green sunset
- private

I would love to have shared it
but you are online
and I'm on the porch.

Adventures of a Simple Mind

It doesn't rain in Tennessee 

When it rains in Indiana dark clouds gather and threaten the pedestrian. It begins with a light two-minute warming of rain sprinkling the sidewalks and pavement. Then it cuts loose! Rain pours from above soaking the buildings and vegetation. As storm drains backs up street flood. The next day everyone in Indiana is talking about the bad weather. But it doesn’t rain like that in Tennessee.

Rain in the mountains is noisy and I never actually got wet. The rain would hit the canopy with a glorious drumming. The heaviest of this dripped down leaf to leaf until the shattered particles sprinkled lightly on the ground. Smaller rain drops took even longer to reach the forest floor or sidewalk. So although it sounded like it was raining; it really wasn’t. One major problem with this delay effect from canopy was that I got dripped on long after it actually stopped raining.

So in Tennessee you can get wet when it isn’t raining and stay dry when it is. 

Adventures of a Simple Mind

I laughed at the sky 

I was on my way home to Indiana when I was shocked by how beautiful the sky was. It had a clear blue background with ranks of puffy white clouds. I laughed at myself aloud. I hadn’t seen the sky for four days.

In the Great Smokey Mountains of Tennessee the earth had a very odd second layer of skin called “the canopy”. Trees looked like sticks growing straight up out if the ground. There were no branches on the tree until at least sixty feet up. Back home in Indiana that would never happen. Each tree is silhouette perfect in a corn field.

But in the mountains branch touched branch, tree touched tree until a green skin covered the mountain and the next mountain. I saw enormous smooth green bumps creating a series of horizon lines no less than seven deep. Indiana has one horizon line of corn or no horizon line if you are in the city.

In Tennessee everything stopped much closer to my eye because of these mountains of green. What blue sky I saw was thick with plump dark rain clouds that poured themselves out on the heights but only sprinkled the valley. The Great Smokey Mountains were everything the internet pictures portray them to be. I was so struck with wonder at how different things were from back home in Indiana.  I laughed at myself a great deal. 

7.7.16

a book
is just a band-aide
for wanderlust.

(not a haiku. but a very short poem. I am thinking of making haiga of it.)

5.29.16 campfire haiku

campfire silence
he plays with his phone
i write haiku
perfect summer night

ice cream time, bedtime,
then with happy tummy and peaceful mind
haiku

haiku blossom like lotus flower dreams
in that twilight frame of mind

haiku flit like butterflies
in the peripheral vision of the mind

the sweet smell of campfire
will follow me to my bed.

unanounced visitors
are always welcome
until it's your parents.

6.1.16 Lunch Break Haiku

snack
What a fun word!
It could mean many things;
small, yummy, mouthful
snack.

5.28.16

Summer is
when i feel like i should be wearing a swimsuit
humid.

5.15.16

when you get to days end
and it feels full, happy, warm
like Fat budda.

Songs stick
in the head
DRAW them out
ink is your weapon.
Conquer them all!

4-28-16

wrap around skirt
on a blustery day
enjoy but don't stare.

full of surprises
unknowns popping up everywhere
Who are you? Were you there last year?

sundress on for you
this childish game of hide-and-seek you play
Sun.

4-19-16

Princess Leah said,
"Hold me." and i understood.
Basic human need.

4/8/16

the lime green of spring
beautiful scrubby crap trees
while grown trees must wait.

3.29.16

Lazy Day
lunch at breakfast
nap and play
do-what-you-want-fest
laugh away.

For the love of your wife
after biking nine miles
you went for a walk.

3-19-16

Mourning

Memories are powerful
blessing and a curse
people you love all your life.

God answered prayers
selfish requests, gracious God
He lived to be ten.

Someone missing from our family
never stop feeling a void.

The arms of my King
now hold my nephew Caleb.
Praise you King Jesus!