Tag Archives: Fall

Season Bridge [Haiku]

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yellow daisies grow
 from crack & fissure;
  bridging Summer & Fall.

PROMPT: Favorite Holiday

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Daily writing prompt
What is your favorite holiday? Why is it your favorite?
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Halloween. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. (Suck it, Andy Williams, December is too cold.) And I like a holiday that has a dark side and embraces it.

I like Thanksgiving’s food but think a practice of being grateful just once a year is bad form.

DAILY PHOTO: Autumn Forest

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Photograph taken in Big Trees Forest Preserve in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
Photograph taken in Big Trees Forest Preserve in Sandy Springs, Georgia.
Photograph taken in Big Trees Forest Preserve in Sandy Springs, Georgia.

Gnawed Hickory Nut [Haiku]

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Photograph of Big Creek Trail in Roswell, Georgia.
bench beside trail:
 vacant but for a gnawed
  hickory nutshell.

Skulking Deer [Senryū]

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Photograph of a deer taken from Alpharetta's Big Creek Greenway Trail.
step: "Crunch - Crack!" --
 skulking deer startles itself,
  looks out: who noticed?

Gust [Haiku]

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Photograph taken at Pai Canyon near Pai, Thailand.
Autumn gust
 sends leaf fluttering --
  cat paws at it.

Long Days Inside Short Days [Senryū]

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the grain is ripe. 
 the days are short.
  the farmer, weary.

Soggy [Haiku]

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Fallen leaves on the sidewalk after a rain.
fallen leaves, post-rain:
 gauge the drizzle by 
  what crunch remains.

Rushed [Haiku]

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through the Autumn,
 one tree holds leaves longer,
  then drops them faster.

Question Tree [Haiku]

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one strange tree
 curls like a question mark:
  Autumnal forest.