JIKU book excerpt #203

 

a field mouse ~

faltering . . . hovel silence ~

autumn’s evening . . . frost

Excerpt from the book JIKU #116 ( Ode to Robert Wright)

 

Up the Mountain ~

in my hovel . . . this other road ~

it’s my world

JIKU book excerpt #178 (First published in the journal of English Tanshi Bamboo Hut, in the Autumn 2015 edition.)

 

misty sheets of rain ~ 

stir slumbering clouds ~

on my mountain side

JIKU book excerpt # 189

 

pine cones ~

sticky sappy here there, ~

everywhere pine cones

Another JIKU book excerpt

 

Up the Mtn # 190

half awake . . . just . . .  ~

field mice . . . scampering  ~

on my roof . . . right ?

Another JIKU book excerpt

 

stained by pitch & sap ~

my hickory handled axe ~

splitting wet firewood

Another JIKU excerpt

 

life splintering ~

relationships flickering ~

a cloud a bear witness

Another JIKU excerpt

 

coloured trail dirt ~

crumbled & fading ~

leaves

Up the Mtn #149

 

rapids ~

washing over me ~

swaying trees

Up the Mtn #215

 

my journeys my home ~

time, love, fellow travelers ~

a wanderous life

Up the Mtn #185

 

(grateful) transcendence ~

(moonlit) Cherry Blossoms . . . floating ~

“this other World” 

Up the Mtn #50

 

from my hovel ~

(that) smokey scent lingers ~

from Up the Mtn

 

Up the Mtn #48

 

skies darken past tree lines ~

moonbeams shine as sunlight flees ~

field mice dine with me

Up the Mtn #45

 

Sabi - Up the Mtn ~

tight quarters - wood stove    yugen ~

Wabi - Mtn Hovel

Another “JIKU” book excerpt, #243

 

pitter patter . . . reign ~

pine needles spatter my roof ~

autumn rains

Another “JIKU” book excerpt

#179

 twilight in the bay ~

the plumed egret . . . wading ~

low tide fades in

From Serenity the Arctic Skoolie #22

 

Springs falling

over stale snowdrifts

life-death . . . springs eternal

From “Serenity” the Arctic Skoolie (#3b)

 

whiteness descending ~

brownness  arising ~

bound on a Mountainside

From “Serenity” the Skoolie (#5)

 

the wintered edge of fall

metamorphous

see! . . . the Fireweed

From “Serenity” the Skoolie (#4)

 

autumn’s chill

descending at dusk

in Denali