Noisy Parakeets [Senryū]

noisy parakeets
loop above the neighborhood:
just flockin' around

Winter Afternoon [Haiku]

winter clouds
hang thick and low, but -yet-
 the sun burns through 

Nettle [Haiku]

i’ve seen nettles,
& i’ve felt nettles —
better the former

Bear Bouffant [Limerick]

There once was a quite sizable bear --
yet more imposing for its shaggy hair.
"If I took a shave,
I'd better fit my cave, 
but hunters would laugh, not beware."

Silent Chimes [Haiku]

silent forest.
wind chimes hang stiffly,
as leaves sway

Cloud Deception [Haiku]

puffy white clouds
seem no less solid 
than gray granite

Weightless Birds [Free Verse]

tweets & cheeps

i hear them all:
dainty expressions 
of tiny birds

i hear them amid
the neck-stretched caws
of jungle crows
& amid
the circling 
screech hawks

weightless birds:
flitting & jumping, 

flitting with wings
blurred to invisibility 
&
jumping:
bounce - bounce - bounce

Root of Suffering [Haiku]

between boulders
grows a sinewy tree --
robust by ordeals

Two Becomes One [Haiku]

cactus & bush
harmoniously grow into
one silhouette