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

Sunlight to the east

Summer Petals
sunlight to the east
summer drifts across the sky
slowly the air cools

Another photo from one of my walks. Many of my neighbors are quite talented gardeners. I’m fond of the evolving bouquet surrounding me.

Flowers in the cruel sunlight


into August's sun
with it's cruel grip upon us
gentle beauty grows

A Dark Sky Haiku

Dark Sky
under sunlight's edge
gazing upwards at the clouds
I have everything 

Shedding Sunlight: Tonight’s Haiku

shedding sunlight
night emerges, taking hold
summer raindrops fall

Tonight’s Haiku: Summer’s Rose

Summer Rose
feeding on sunlight
gracefully growing skyward
now the scent of rain

Bees: A Haiku

while the bees’s moving
gracefully over petals
preparing for rain


I’m pretty pleased with this photo, taken along the Edmonds waterfront.

A Haiku Response to the Word of the Day Challenge: Meeting

Another morning, another daily challenge. This time I am looking at the Word of the Day Challenge. Today’s word is “meeting”. With the pandemic and all, you might expect me to write about Zoom. But, no…

Flowers meeting

in the morning mist
flowers meeting to discuss
humanity's fate

A Word Challenge Haiku: Insidious

I’m very fond of “Word Challenges”. Today I’m taking on Fandango’s One Word Challenge, and the word is “insidious“.


Morning Glory
Morning Glory
despite their beauty
these insidious flowers
destructively grow

Photo by Munro Studio on Unsplash

A Cloudy Summer’s Day

a cloudy summer’s day haiku
cloud's gentleness
hints of healing rain
summer's respite

I took this photo this morning after hearing of the possibility of rain. Haven’t seen any yet.

I decided to experiment with animated text. This was created with Canva. What do you think?