Macabre: A Haiku

After Dusk

Here is my contribution to today’s “Fandango’s One-Word Challenge“: macabre. Not the most poetic word, methinks, but I appreciate a challenge. As I’m looking forward to the approaching autumn, I feel alignment. At that intersection I came up with this:

autumn approaching
I'm celebrating darkness 
some find that macabre

Today’s Haiku: Bursts of Color


footsteps on the path
bursts of color reach my eye
underneath the leaves

Saw these on my walk yesterday. They were striking, standing out solidly in the mass of green.

I finished up Summer quarter on my journey to finish my ATA in Web Development. I will write some about that soon. Six quarters complete and three quarters left. Now, what to do afterwards? So much opportunity, so many choices, thus, so many things to say “no” to. That’s my pain.

Grace of Summer

The grace of summer
Greeting me upon my walk
Sunlight through the clouds

Under Summer Clouds


under summer clouds
hints of autumn rising up
gentle mists drift by

Today’s FOWC with Fandango

Fandango’s One-Word Challenge today features “lean”. So, here we go…

within the forest
do I lean against the tree
or it lean on me? 

Summer Trees

Sunlight through the trees

amidst the trees
breeze dancing with the leaves
sunlight reaches me

A haiku response to today’s Word of the Day Challenge: Figure

Summer Flower

Today I’m contributing to the Word of the Day Challenge. Our word today, “figure”.


underneath the clouds
the figure of a flower
graces my vision

Gusto: A Haiku

Today’s Fandango’s One-Word Challenge is Gusto. A rather challenging one, don’t you think?

living life boldly
finding the joys of one's path
seeking out gusto