Rocky Mountain Foothills
an early summer evening
Northeastern Colorado
100 days…79th day
Lightning flickers
only in the north:
the moon is overcast.
~Aamano Hachiro*
*cited:
Japanese Death Poems
Y Hoffmann
100 days…65th day
The colors of the flowers fade
as the long rain fall,
as lost in thought,
I grow older.
~Ono no Komachi*
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
Trans: K Rexroth & I Atsumi
weekly photo challenge: earth
Have celestial maidens
descended to earth?
blossom clouds.
~Issa*
Laramie Mountain Range
The earth mound’s
part of it indeed…
a fine spring day
~Issa*
Cache la Poudre River
submitted in response to Jen’s photo challenge: Earth
*cited:
haiku guy.com
solitary evergreen
I can no longer tell dream from reality.
Into what world shall I awake
from this bewildering dream?
~Akazome Emon (?-1027)*
solitary evergreen
*cited:
Women Poets of Japan
K Rexroth & I Atsumi
spring…revives the greenery
spring snow
revives the greenery
then goes
~Kawai Chigetsu (1634?-1718)*
“on your left” cyclist’s mantra
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
Makoto Ueda
beyond…
where the entire
mountain has been trampled
a lady flower
~Uda Kiyoko*
valley of contentment
*cited:
Far Beyond the Field
Makoto Ueda
a meditative journey 
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