Haiku (XI)
The silk of her sleeve,
as she lays aside her brush,
falls about her wrist.
Haiku (XII)
Asleep, he nods once.
His book, cradled in his arm,
forgotten, falls closed.
© Magdalen Jago 2008.
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Haiku (XI & XII)
Posted in haiku, poetry, writing, tagged haiku, poetry, writing on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Haiku (X) Over Texas
Posted in haiku, nature, poetry, writing, tagged clouds, haiku, poetry, sunlight, Texas, writing on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
30,000 feet
below, cloud shadows lie pinned
by shafts of sunlight.
Fern-like arroyos,
brown frond, spread feathered fingers
over dusty plains.
© Magdalen Jago 2008
Haiku (IX)
Posted in haiku, nature, poetry, writing, tagged Colorado, haiku, nature, poetry, trees, writing on June 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Towering cloudward,
lichen-bearded pines, grasping
root-cracked rock, dig deep.
Haiku (VIII)
Posted in haiku, poetry, writing, tagged haiku, poetry, spring, writing on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Haiku (VII) Fox
Posted in haiku, nature, poetry, writing, tagged fox, haiku, nature, poetry, writing on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Frail twigs bound with hay
cup the blindly peeping chicks
as wind tossed boughs flail.
One dainty black paw
extended, bright eyed red fox
pins a fallen chick.
Wing beats knife the air,
blur his sight, deafen his ears,
Snap! Snap! His jaws close…
On the empty air.
© Magdalen Jago 2008
Haiku (VI)
Posted in haiku, poetry, writing, tagged haiku, poetry, tea, writing on May 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dead, dried up bits of
Himalayan shrubbery
revived and steaming,
the first sip scalds lips
and throat; the last leaves on the
tongue a bitterness.
Patterned dregs remain,
a tea leaf mosaic. Time
for another cup.
© Magdalen Jago 2008
Haiku (IV & V)
Posted in haiku, nature, poetry, writing, tagged haiku, poetry, rain, storm, writing on May 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Haiku IV
Mist drips drops, rain rains.
Laid in a dryer season,
the footpath is gone.
© Magdalen Jago
Haiku V
Storm air shimmering,
strings of cloud beads, lightning torn,
sink toward pools of sky.
© Magdalen Jago
Haiku (III) Kingdom Insecta
Posted in haiku, nature, poetry, writing, tagged haiku, insect, nature, poetry, writing on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
His eye on the crown,
the ant storms the gnarled tree root’s
mossy parapet,
-while-
A beetle trundles
‘cross twig bridges from leafy
isle to leafy isle,
-and-
The waterstriders
ride the currents ’round pebble
archipelagos.
© Magdalen Jago
Haiku (II) In the land of Reindeer
Posted in haiku, poetry, writing, tagged haiku, poetry, reindeer, writing on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Velvet lips, her breath,
Warming frost encrusted rock,
Releases snowdrops.
© Magdalen Jago 2008
Haiku (I)
Posted in haiku, poetry, writing, tagged haiku, hobbits, poetry, writing on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Watch
Last watch, fireless,
Mist coats the down of my cheek,
The rock cools ‘neath me.
Straining ears to hear
No sounds midst fogbound firboughs.
Even peepers sleep.
No whirr, chirp, rustle.
I hunch upon fog-chilled rock
As shadows deepen.
© Magdalen Jago 2008
