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

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

Today’s word is “overdue”. Not a very poetic word, is it?


a day with light rain
giving overdue relief 
birds gracing my day

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