Haiku/Senryu/Tanka
2025

We spent Christmas this year in Idaho waiting for our first grandson to arrive. A few haiku came my way after the excitement was winding down.   

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As is normal for Colorado, cold weeks mix with some warm days now and again, enough to remind us of an eventual Spring. When the temperatures are a bit warmer, we often find ourselves at one park or another.    

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Travel gives me opportunity to tune into creativity. This month we traveled to Idaho and Utah to visit family.   

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Neighborhood birds inspired these verses.  

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Spring has come to the Rocky Mountains and we are enjoying this new season.   

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Rainy weeks of late May and early June have given way to the warmth of summer in the Rockies.    

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Hot days with plenty of afternoon showers to cool things off combine with early morning musings and poetry sitting under the Honey Locust in the front yard.    

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A trip to see a grandson in Idaho and other family visits in multiple states provided a number of opportunities for reflection (poetry watch) and photography.     

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Quiet mornings sitting int he front yard meditating, praying yield whispered poems.     

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The silence of just one Sunday morning on Lake Mooselookmeguntic made the entire trip worth it.     
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Just one poem for a brown November. 

     
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Driving I-70 West to East provides both the right conditions (boredom) and the materials (inspiring vistas and speech-to-text technology) for creating Haiku.  

     
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