Heron [Haiku]

a heron stalks
amid rice seedlings:
mild Summer day.

Empty Pasture [Haiku]

in woods' shade, 
cattle sit or stand, &
file barn-ward at dusk.

Heron at Dusk [Haiku]

dusky summer eve:
a heron wades in shallows,
blindly fishing.

Seaside Sunset [Haiku]

red-hot steel glow:
sun crawls toward
wine-dark seas.

Summer Fishing [Haiku]

long-tailed boat
chugs down the buoy-line:
Summer fishing.

Elephant’s Eye [Haiku]

crops hide the farmhouse,
but can't conceal distant mountains.

DAILY PHOTO: Ambiguous Hour, Laajalahti

Is it sunset? Sunrise? Both? Neither? It was like this for an hour or so when I was in Finland during the Summer. Never getting fully dark.

“The Human Seasons” by John Keats [w/ Audio]

Four Seasons fill the measure of the year;
There are four seasons in the mind of man:
He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear
Takes in all beauty with an easy span:
He has his Summer, when luxuriously
Spring's honied cud of youthful thought
he loves
To ruminate, and by such dreaming high
Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves
His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings
He furleth close; contented so to look
On mists in idleness -- to let fair things
Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook.
He has his Winter too of pale misfeature,
Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

Wetlands Sunset [Haiku]

Summer sunset
glows on the wetlands,
for a short time.

Late to the Hunt [Senryū]

tardy deer hunter
finds a deer grazing beside
his hunter's stand.