dagosan's haiku diary

V: 037

2009-07-13T08:02:00.000-07:00

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alone at sunset
i pick a pair
of faded daylilies

….. orig pub. Legal Studies Forum (Vol. XXXII, No. 1. 2008); and here at dagosan's, on July 22, 2007; you'll find more photos of sunset daylilies at my suns along the mohawk (July 13, 2009) ..

V: 036

2009-07-06T06:15:00.000-07:00

no kiss goodnight --
driving home under
a half-empty moon

- This is our annual reminder that July 6 is International Kissing Day and July 7 is Chocolate Day. Find out much more and check out related haiku and senryu at the f/k/a post "let's celebrate kissing and chocolate" (July 5, 2008). Despite what the nuns told us in grammar school, kisses and chocolate are heavenly. "simply senryu" is celebrating, too, today.

her chocolate breath
mingles with mine -
easter sunset

.. . . . . orig. pub. Simply Haiku (Winter 2005)

V: 035

2009-07-03T09:20:00.000-07:00

. . . during my haiku drought, you'll have to settle for one of my favorite oldies:

fireworks finale!
her eyes return
to the fireflies

.. by David Giacalone - Simply Haiku, Autumn 2007, vol 5 no 3 -

- find fireworks (and watermelon) haiku and senryu by the f/k/a family of poets here; and photos of the annual Jumpin' Jack's fireworks display in Scotia, NY, taken from my backyard along the Mohawk River, there, at my photoblog -

V: 034

2009-06-21T06:40:00.000-07:00

- photo by Arthur Giacalone -

summer solstice
the insomniac
waits for dawn

….. orig. pub. Legal Studies Forum (Vol. XXXII, No. 1. 2008)

late-comers:

fireflies join

the solstice party

. . . . . . dagosan at f/k/a, June 20, 2004

almost sunset
the weekend dad
drags a sled up the hill

. . . orig. pub. Frogpond XXIX: 2 (2006)

- find summer solstice poems here and here at f/k/a; and also go here and here for Father's Day haiku and senryu -

V: 033 - Happy Birthday to Issa

2009-06-15T15:34:00.000-07:00

a mid-June nap
interrupted . . .
hailstones

. . . . . . . . . . dagosan

- Happy Birthday to Kobayashi Issa! (born "on the fifth day of Fifth Month, 1763: June 15 on the Western calendar"); see today's Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor -

keeping the beat
of the prayer to Buddha...
hailstones

. . .

stuck in the wrinkles
of my knees...
hailstones

. . . by Kobayashi Issa, translated by Haiku Guy David G. Lanoue

V: 032 - looking for a shady spot

2009-06-14T07:33:00.000-07:00

- oil painting by Kara Matthews LaFrance, Vive LaFrance Design -

old dog and master
jostling
for the tiny spot of shade

. . . . . . orig. pub. Legal Studies Forum (2005; pages 275 - 276)

- oil paintings available from Kara Matthews LaFrance (my niece), Vive LaFrance Design -

summer solstice:
no shade on either
side of the street

…. orig. pub. Simply Haiku (vol. 6 no. 3, Fall 2008)

V: 031 roberta's rivermoon

2009-06-05T12:52:00.000-07:00

…. poem by Roberta Beary -orig. pub. in M. H. Siddiqui’s “Season’s Greetings 2009 Letter: Stream – River”, 2008; pub. pending in ‘nothing left to say‘, King’s Road Press, Hexagram Series, Marco Fraticelli, Ed.); photo: David Giacalone

- see the story behind this haiga at suns along the mohawk -

V: 030

2009-05-30T05:09:00.000-07:00

weed or flower?
she clucks
as he pulls

V: 029

2009-05-25T04:42:00.000-07:00

monarch butterfly
on the tip of a shoe -
the rocking chair stops

V: 028

2009-05-20T17:56:00.000-07:00

reprise from a year ago:

- - see f/k/a for a few more Memorial Day haiku and senryu --

V: 027

2009-05-16T04:49:00.001-07:00

stuffed
into swing seats --
twenty toes touch the clouds

- orig. pub. Simply Haiku (Modern Haiga, Summer 2009, Vol. 7 no. 2) -
photo: Riverside Park, Schenectady, NY, along the Mohawk River (Sept. 25, 2008) -

V: 026

2009-05-10T06:05:00.000-07:00

[photo: arthur giacalone, Highland Park, Rochester, NY]

grayskies
on mother’s day -
grandma’s favorite park

- orig. haiga at MagnaPoets (May 10, 2007) -

- click for the f/k/a mother's day haiku collection -

V: 025

2009-05-07T16:42:00.000-07:00

- reprise: still resting on laurels and lilacs -

first the scent -
lilac bushes
'round the corner

- Simply Haiku, Autumn 2007, vol 5 no 3 -

lilacs
next to trashcans --
the scent of each

.. dagosan's haiku diary (May 2006 and 2007)

Mother's Day --
admiring lilacs
just past their peak

– The Heron’s Nest (VIII: 4, December 2006) -

- click for more lilac haiku by f/k/a's Honored Guests -

V: 024

2009-05-05T06:49:00.000-07:00

chilly fifth of May
serapes huddled
over menudo soup

- ¡Felice Cinco de Mayo! -

V: 023

2009-04-27T08:10:00.000-07:00

stormy night
pink blossoms
fill the gutter

- - see Schenectady's cherry blossoms at suns along the Mohawk (2009) and f/k/a (2008); plus simply senryu --

V: 022

2009-04-25T14:16:00.000-07:00

- click to enlarge -

a rut or a riff?

- photo taken April 19, 2009, sunrise at Miner's Farm, Duanesburg, NY -

V: 021

2009-04-18T05:41:00.000-07:00

spring breeze
the wind chimes
you left behind

- haiga version of this poem -

V: 020

2009-04-16T14:41:00.000-07:00

. . . according to today's Grand Avenue comic strip, this is the "first Shorts Day of the year." The twins decided they needed sunglasses to face their Granny's winter-pale legs. On May 2, 2006, dagosan had a similar thought:

first day in short pants --
skinnny white legs
go window shopping

V: 019

2009-04-15T09:50:00.000-07:00

Spring arrives –
peeps melting
on the dashboard

- poem orig. pub. at Simply Haiku (Vol. 3, No. 4, Winter 2005); haiga at MagnaPoets Japanese Form; 1953 photo by Mama G.
- dagosan is apparently still allergic to blogging and haiku-writing. So, we're dipping into our archives and otherwise resting on skimpy laurels.

V: 018

2009-04-04T05:53:00.000-07:00

Palm Sunday rain -
fronds nailed to the door
of a boarded-up church

V: 017

2009-03-31T06:42:00.000-07:00

... it's not haiku,

but today's haiga at my simply senryu weblog might inspire one (by you or me).

Just in case the Muse has left the premises, here's a poem written four years ago today, when we still had some unmelted snow on the last day of March:

snowbank

becoming

compost

..................... dagosan at f/k/a (March 31, 2005)

V: 016

2009-03-28T05:25:00.000-07:00

sunrise coffee
the fog lifts
with the second cup

- click on the haiga to enlarge it; photo: Mohawk River at Washington Ave., Schenectady, Jan. 7, 2009 -

V: 015

2009-03-21T09:57:00.000-07:00

mud and sunshine
spring begins
without you

- warm wishes to all those gathered today in New York City to honor the life, work and memory of Bill Higginson -

V: 014

2009-03-17T05:40:00.000-07:00

almost
the equinox -
muddy again in the mud room

V: 013

2009-03-16T07:22:00.001-07:00

the view
from the sofa
March madness

- photo: Art Giacalone; related haiga here -

- there's no ice on our local hoops this year, but curmudgeonly dagosan is still annoyed by all the Big Dance and March Madness cliches; if you nonetheless have the fever and are in need of basketball haiku and senryu, you'll find more than a bracket-full by scrolling this post at f/k/a (including top-seed presentations by Roberta Beary and Ed Markowski) -