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.

Summer Color [Haiku]

blooms & berries
color the scrublands
as summer peaks.

Magpie [Haiku]

the magpie walks
with head hung low,
fooling no one.

Reptilian Investigations [Haiku]

rock agama pops
over the boulder's top:
sniffs & scurries.