Little haikus everywhere

Misty mountains make for sweet haiku

haiku

noun

hai·​ku ˈhī-(ˌ)kü 

pluralhaiku or haikus

Synonyms of haiku: an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having in English three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables respectively.

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Old rugged souls

Kumano Haiku by Jonathan Bing

We laugh

Our old, rugged souls

In this new place, we laugh

With songs on the path

A new season

Cedars breathe the mist

A bird comes to your branches

A season sings new

Delight

O Oraclepus

The delight you bring us

So right and yet wrong

symmetry

Kumano Haiku by Tracy Wiese

Broken and Mending

I fear the breaking:

Literal, figurative

So, I go to bed

The Cosmos

Kumano Haiku by Cheryl Murfin

Eyes open

What is this forest?

One tree but with many limbs

Eyes open, we walk.

Who you think you are

Individual

This is who you think you are

That is why you’re lost.

Sky keeps watch

In between these roots

A wide sky keeps watch

I breathe between them

Wings, listening

Birds almost never shout

This way, this way they sing out

I listen, wings spread

Whispering Colleen

Colleen sitting down

Trees whisper her name en masse

She listens, grateful