barkless

On a manzanita tree

see that dog pee !

fifteen thousand feet

empty, calm Tibetan Breeze

blue      mt clouds peek

In B.C. #4

Iskut Thunder

lightning strikes      spark rainbows

Kinaskan Summer

In the Alaskan Tundra #1

      Alaskan tundra

treeless      flat      boggey land

sea? Caribou migration

In the Cascades #2

A      C   L   O   U   D        W   A   L   L

skims deciduous tree lines

natures hyle gully

In B.C. #5

B.C. Birch!   Aspen!

wintered   weathered   browned

Stands      Sway attention

In B.C. #3

Iskut B.C. 

picnicking by roadside 

foraging Grizzles

In B.C. #2

refuse barrels

liter the thirty seven's

pristine wilderness?

In the Cascades #1

by dimming light

Oh!      what a glorious sight

(3) Sisters glow      (by) twilight

Spring Kimonos

Edo's blossoming (to) day

IMPERIAL CREST

A Meiji aesthetic

eternal      Cherry Blossoms

From the recently published 3rd edition of "JIKU"

Cherry Petals Draw

A visual eulogy

falling past their prime

From the 3rd edition of "JIKU"

Yoshino's blossomed

petals browned in muck

to my soul are stuck

Montana, decades ago

I watch moonbeams

disapearing over a mountain top

around a mountain switchback,

the voice of Grizzly BEARS,   rising

no gun-no bear spray-just rusty old bear bells,  

heavy and cold upon my toes

A tanka for Hiroshige's Tale of Genji Print

A Contemporary Haiga

fickle Genji

screened      Lady Murasaki ?

emotions flicker

clouded composition      hoax ?

pretence of a three nite stay ?

Haiku for Hokusai's Hodogaya on the Tokaido Road/Hodogaya on the Tokaido Road

Contemporary Haiga

a gnarled framing

a skewed composition

passing Mt Fuji

A Haiku for Hokusai's Nakamaro Watching The Moon From A Hill/Abe no Nakamaro (Chao Heng)

Contemporary Haiga

poetic

longing for ones homeland

capitulation

(The Waka that accompanied it, translated read)

"When I look abroad

O'er the wide-streched "Plain of Heaven",

Is the moon the same

That on Mt Mikasa rose,

In the land of Kasuga?"

A Haiku for Hokusai's "Sumida River Seen from Azuma Bridge/Azumabashi yori Sumidawo miru no zu"

Contemporary Haiga

Sumida Gateway

an abridged waterway

pathway      see?

A Haiku for Houksai's Yamashiro Arashiyama Togetsukyo/Crossing-Moon Bridge At Arashiyama In Yamashiro Province

Contemporary Haiga

Landscapes of grandeur

transitions      visual tones

on land & air      see?

A Haiku for a Hokusai Print

Contemporary Haiga 

ephemeral sky

           ethereal pathway

                          westward currents   f  l  o  w 

A tanka for Hiroshige's "Ommayagashi/Ommayagashi Embankment"

A Contemporary Haiga

white masked      NIGHT HAWKS!

Diseased Warriors      men?

Ommayagashi!

lustful esculents   effused

outcasts      winter's anathemas

A Haiku for one of Hiroshige's "Night Snow at Kambara/Kambara yoru no yuki", part of 53 Stations of the Tokiado"

Contemporary Haiga

imagine Kambara

snow capped mountain village

Fine Tokiado stop

cRaCkEd   coloured      leave flakes

trampled   fading in trail dirt

graduations

Of the African Continent

Egypt's Arabs

Africa's anathema

Spring of discontent

colonial pawns

African Arabs     Rise uP

A Haiga from the third edition of my recently published book of poetry entitled "JIKU"

Bursts of fluffy sparks

 emanate from prickly stalks

thistle seeds aloft

Posted with Blogsy

A Haiku for Hokusai's "Thirty Six Views of Mt Fuji" Koshu Misaka suimen (Reflection in Lake Misaka)

A Contemporary Haiga

"Fictitious Facade"

                      Fuji

natures imprint - coloured stain

        woodblock reflection

Joie de Vivre (This Print entitled "Colestin" is available at TurningArt.com by Byron Dudley)

(An example of of Poekuagery)

summer's green River

(sprawling shenanigans)

frolics on hills      as clouds peek

(over a foliage blanket)

scent   of a cool breeze

(mountain meadows      Colestin)

This 16 x 20 framed print is available for free from TurningArt.com (for 3 months) to the first 20 people who leave me their email under comments.  

A Haiku for Hokusai's "Thirty Six Views of Mt Fuji" #22

HAYAUMA (Sumidagawa Sekya no sato/Sekiya Village on the Sumida River)

a conifers view

natures gnarled beauty

eschews the plumline

Hiking the PCT

Dusk's fog dissipates

headlamps?      voices?

blighted      solitude

A red dragonfly

dyed      in a sunset

still      in autumn's dusk

Journeying

into the great red north

cold      warmth      a bYSS!

    

Thinking of home (an example of Poekuagery)

Conifers blooming

(Pines, ferns, moss, beeming)

foliage soirees       Beatles!   ?

(dissipated   needle trysts)

enervate old stands

(Aki   embracing falling needles - lying - rising from a forest floor)

From my book "JIKU"

My life ebbing

A faucet leaks in a sink

full it overflows

A heavy paraphrasing

In solitude

a suent road   less traveled

know it well I do

Curtain clouds abate

 

projecting Autumn's twilight

sojourning moonbeams

crackling awake     old growths

stare up and contemplate

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Fuji" #4.

A Contemporary Haiga

imitation

visual sampling

Wave of flattery

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #3(Sukiyagashi in the Eastern Capital)".

A contemporary Haiga

cold-dawn    yawns under

spread of crunchy cold whiteness

a son     slow to rise

Untitled

Chiaroscuro

 

sky permeates foliage

 

on a forest floor

Posted with Blogsy

A Senryu for the final image of Hiroshige's "53 Views of the Tokiado".

A Contemporary Haiga

Bridging Sandbars

Tokiado to Kyoto

Fifty three ways

A Haiku for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #28.

A Contemporary Haiga for (Nagakubo/Nagakubo Station)

Dark young leaves

Cool fog a diffusing   bridge

gossamer moonbeams 

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "Moon and Wild Geese", from his Nature print series.

A Contemporary Haiga

          Moonlit trio

silent dive from a cool moon

Visual      S  C  R  E  E  C  H  !

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #27".

A Contemporary Haiga

        A red gated rock

strewn      weeping bush clovers

    stone seashore orchard

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "69 stations of Kisokaido #40".

A Contemporary Haiga, (edited)

Vitriolized raindrops

agitate placidity

medicants flee 

A Senryu for Hiroshige's "53 Stations of the Tokaido #26".

A Contemporary Haiga for Kakegawa Akibayama enbo/Distant View of Mt Akiba at Kakegawa

Atop a bridge                                        s

                                                         e

non-capitulation                           E

                                                  L

f    u    t      r    n           a kite   F  

   l     t     e    i    g

A Haiku & Tanka for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #51.

A Contemporary Haiga

Cormorants strung out

Fires cast ephemeral light

Bobing by moonlight

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "53 Stations of the Tokiado #49".

A Contemporary Haiga for (Tsuchiyama no haru no ame/Spring Rain at Tsuchiyama)

A bridge fords a stream

Mirth !     tree lined civility

spittled raindrops scream

A Haiku (senryu) & Tanka for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #37.

A Contemporary Haiku/Tanka for (Miyanokoshi Station/Miyanokoshi)

Genpei Shadows

Moonlit Heike Silhouettes

wait!     Yoshinaka?

Minamoto !      Taira !

Tales of Heian Fuyu    

A Haiku for Hiroshige's "69 Kisokaido Stations #51".

A Contemporary Haiga

Suwa Fuyu

Fuji water xing 

Omiwatari

 

Posted with Blogsy

A Senryu for Hiroshige's "Sixty-Nine stations of Kisokaido #33".

A Contemporary Haiga

Woodcutters Shelter

Under a gnarled pine   fire warms 

Motoyama Soba  

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #30".

A contemporary Haiga

A sacred path

Kai's Misaka Pass

that tree frames Fuji

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #24".

A contemporary Haiga

A    d  r  i  f  t

pining for Mt Fuji

de nouveau