Tootfinder

Observant walkers
Will soon find broken turquoise
Shards along the path
#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt - shell

Little red robin
Worms his way north each summer
As the early bird.
#dailyhaikuprompt - robin
#haiku
#poem

You pause mid-stride, look
Back, and silently curse. "I
Forgot..." "What?," I think.
#haiku

Prep for a blizzard
Get out the can opener
And the kerosene.
#dailyhaikuprompt - blizzard
#haiku
#poem

Thank you Twin Cities.
Your struggle gives us hope that
A new day's rising.
#Minneapolis #haiku

Blackbird on barbed wire
Watching for a meal below
Or something shiny.
#dailyhaikuprompt - blackbird
#haiku
#poem

Lay dormant under
Banks of snow. In a few months,
Seeds will wake and grow.
#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt - seed

New seed catalogue
Abundant fecundity
Colour promises.
#dailyhaikuprompt - seed
#haiku
#poem

Commotion outside
An argument of sparrows
Squabbling over seed.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sparrow
#haiku
#poem

Sie wissen es, wir wissen es - nicht nur der unglaubliche #DenisScheck streitet für das Wahre, Schöne, Gute - wir bei der DGI sind da auf jeden Fall mit von der Partie ;)
Heute möchten wir Sie ermuntern, mal wieder ein #Haiku-Bändchen zur Hand zu nehmen.
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Every day now
Brings a fresh WTAF.
What'll it be next?
#haiku

Flurries overnight
A late smattering of snow
Hiding new growth.
#dailyhaikuprompt - late
#haiku
#poem

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley:
🎵 What About Tomorrow?
#HaikuSalut #MegMorley
https://lorecordings.bandcamp.com/track/what-about-tomorrow

A good problem: we
Can't open the door for friends'
Boots in the entry.
#haiku

A quiet moment
With a coffee in my hand
Makes the whole day right.
#dailyhaikuprompt - quiet
#haiku
#poem

A field of my dreams
expansive as the ocean
vast plane of color
#haiku #poetry

Ice pellets fall from
Heaven and ping improvised
Melodies on glass.
#haiku #dlws

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley:
🎵 What About Tomorrow
#HaikuSalut #MegMorley
https://haikusalut.bandcamp.com/track/what-about-tomorrow

What a brave new day
That has such wonders in it
All for our pleasure.
#dailyhaikuprompt - day
#haiku
#poem

As smoke dissipates
It leaves a faint aroma
Of something that was.
#dailyhaikuprompt - smoke
#haiku
#smoke

A park ranger told
Us once that he'd only not
Seen snow in August.
#DailyHaikuPrompt - Late Snow
#haiku

Avalanche of snow
A community of flakes
Can break up thin ice.
#dailyhaikuprompt - snow
#haiku
#poem

After the ice storm
Rivulets of fresh water
Rinse the dust away.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fresh water
#haiku
#poem

crawling through nothing
I writhe in an endless void
hoping for something
#haiku #poetry

Wind whips, snow falls still.
Sprouts hunker down, buds blossom
Only in our dreams.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #Bloom #haiku

To climb our mountain
Each of us as Sisyphus
Must all act boulder.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mountain
#haiku
#poem
#365DaysOfHaiku
#OneYearOfDailyHaiku

Dubious, like the
Cleanliness of shared spoons in
The kitchen at work.
#haiku

One of these days, friend
One of us will be proved wrong
And one of us right.
#dailyhaikuprompt - friend
#haiku
#poem

Dozens of outlets
In my office. Only one
Won't trip the breaker.
#haiku

Spending the nest egg
I'm thinking of flying south
To lead the birds home.
#dailyhaikuprompt - egg
#haiku
#poem

Others continue to
Work but I'm off until the
Cold of December.
#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt - plow

The high trends upward
Celsius or Fahrenheit
Spring is on its way.
#dailyhaikuprompt - high
#haiku
#poem

The moon's a lemon
Slice. Robins serenade the
Still sleeping city.
#haiku

It’s hard to set down
A candle burned at both ends
But harder to hold.
#dailyhaikuprompt - candle
#haiku
#poem

One day, the sun, I
Believe, will light my way in
The morning. But when?
#haiku

110S
Sometimes, when the bus
Doesn't show it's not even
Raining or cold out.
#haiku

Though winter may rage
And beat against my window
I am snug inside.
#dailyhaikuprompt - rage
#haiku
#poem

Transit is a Combat Sport
[Muffled] Stand clear, doors
[Clearer] Now closing. Sprint. Squeak
In. [Doors slam shut.] Breathe.
#haiku

This morning I found
A love note on my pillow:
Eggs, milk, butter, cheese.
#dailyhaikuprompt - note
#haiku
#poem

New year at the gym.
Hope and skepticism. Who
Will be here next fall?
#haiku

January thaw
Yearly tradition of hope
For an early Spring.
#dailyhaikuprompt - thaw
#haiku
#poem

With love in your heart
Take a sacred pilgrimage
To the Pastry Shop.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pilgrimage
#haiku
#poem

"God Save the Dean"
Where are Johnny and
Sid? They've gone to school. All we
Hear is "No future."
#haiku #AcademicChatter #HigherEd

Some raccoon, dog, and
Hare, but mostly boot prints in
The snow this morning.
#haiku

February thaws
March is waiting in the wings
With a mighty wind.
#dailyhaikuprompt - wind
#haiku
#poem

It's only a cold
Such coughing dripping aching
But it's just a cold.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cold
#haiku
#poem

The world, draped in
Ice, laughs at our frustration
As we slip once more.
#haiku

Cobra chickens leave
Gifts for unwary walkers,
Screaming rage, they chase.
#haiku #dailyhaikuprompt - geese

Those evergreen days
When ships that needed turning
Got our attention.
#dailyhaikuprompt - evergreen
#haiku
#poem

Like waves against my
Waning sanity, Canvas
Crashes on and on.
#haiku #AcademicChatter

Remnant of summer
Winter grass is a present
Reminder of spring.
#dailyhaikuprompt - winter grass
#haiku
#poem

Institutional HVAC
Freezing in classrooms
And offices; fall asleep
Hot in the bathroom.
#haiku

Fleet as Mercury
Sable in its winter coat
Huddles with its kin.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sable
#haiku
#poem

Lonely as a cloud
Floating high o'er vales and hills
And so I wandered.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cloud
#haiku
#poem

Streaks of violet
Inspire a little caution
For the day to come.
#dailyhaikuprompt - violet
#haiku
#poem

Old brebis makes me
Shake like a sheep. "You know we
Shouldn't buy it." Baa!
#haiku

An impromptu creek
Sprung from snowy headwaters
Seeks a corner drain.
#dailyhaikuprompt - creek
#haiku
#poem

Some crocuses are
Still buried under feet of
Snow, despite photos.
#haiku

Uncollected leaves
Steeping in slumping snow banks
Make Meltwater Soup.
#dailyhaikuprompt - soup
#haiku
#poem

This lunar new year
One spring lantern lights the way
To all our futures.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spring lantern
#haiku
#poem

Chartreuse abundance
A radiant gradient
Vivacious spring grass.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spring grass
#haiku
#poem

110N
Minus fifteen and
Snowy, we watch the driver
Stretch before we board.
#haiku

The morning erupts
In a flurry of motion
Not a day of rest.
#dailyhaikuprompt - flurry
#haiku
#poem

Rail Hymns
Slightly out of sync,
The robo voice's platform
Message makes a round.
#haiku

While it is dark now
It's just a matter of time
Until a new dawn.
#dailyhaikuprompt - time
#haiku
#poem

Soft velvet shadows
Wolf moon on fresh fallen snow
A hopeful new year.
#dailyhaikuprompt - wolf moon
#haiku
#poem

North wind blowing fierce
Forms ice hard against the glass
Frost on frost on frost.
#dailyhaikuprompt - north wind
#haiku
#poem

Field exercises
In malicious compliance
May be in order.
#dailyhaikuprompt - field
#haiku
#poem
Simple Sabotage

I must mend my ways
Stop swearing at holey socks
Good gosh darn 'em all.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mend
#haiku
#poem

The warmth of a smile
Does nothing to rectify
An empty promise.
#dailyhaikuprompt - warmth
#haiku
#poem

Pheasant in the snow
Rethinking its life choices
About migration.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pheasant
#haiku
#poem

Hearty barley soup
To nourish the flagging soul
Weary of winter.
#dailyhaikuprompt - barley
#haiku
#poem

Bare necessities
For trees to bear any fruit
Sun, soil, air, water.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bear
#haiku
#poem

Vernal equinox
Daylight balances darkness
For one night only.
#dailyhaikuprompt - equinox
#haiku
#poem

In the snowy grove
Undercover greenery
Waiting to spring forth.
#dailyhaikuprompt - grove
#haiku
#poem

Time rolls like a wheel
A new year starts each morning
And ends when we do.
#dailyhaikuprompt - new year
#haiku
#poem
Timewheel

Precipitation?
Rain would be a welcome change
No need to shovel.
#dailyhaikuprompt - rain
#haiku
#poem

Frozen foam on sand
The plover patrols the shore
Trawling for tidbits.
#dailyhaikuprompt - plover
#haiku
#poem

Everything's better
Since I traded Twittering
For the Fediverse.
#dailyhaikuprompt - twittering
#haiku
#poem

That seam is complete
Time to replenish the thread
Start stitching the next.
#dailyhaikuprompt - thread
#haiku
#poem

A glimmer of hope
Shines wherever kindnesses
Pass between strangers.
#dailyhaikuprompt - glimmer
#haiku
#poem

Perhaps a clear sky
On the last day of this year
Is a good omen.
#dailyhaikuprompt - clear sky
#haiku
#poem

Tho' a noble beast
A horse may still kick or bite
If feeling aggrieved.
#dailyhaikuprompt - horse
#haiku
#poem

Dripping icicles
Reach toward the frozen earth
Seeking connection.
#dailyhaikuprompt - icicles
#haiku
#poem

Mistaking a quince
For a pear is an error
You make only once.
#dailyhaikuprompt - quince
#haiku
#poem

Freezing then melting
Our consistent condition
Is a state of slush.
#dailyhaikuprompt - melting
#haiku
#poem

The frog, or kenzan
Sits at the base of the vase
To hold stems upright.
#dailyhaikuprompt - frog
#haiku
#poem

It's too cold for snow
And yet somehow freezing rain
Is on the menu.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cold
#haiku
#poem

The golden sun says
It's time to make yellow snow
Pivot to green grass.
#dailyhaikuprompt - yellow
#haiku
#poem

How does that chestnut
Roasting on an open fire
Make the season bright?
#dailyhaikuprompt - chestnut
#haiku
#poem

It's bean soup, he said
I can see that, she replied,
But what is it now?
#dailyhaikuprompt - bean soup
#haiku
#poem

Though snoring gently
The bear is aware enough
To ignore skiers.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bear
#haiku
#poem

Feathery hoarfrost
Needles out from cold branches
Waving to the sun.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hoarfrost
#haiku
#poem

An evening of mirth
A night of indigestion
A morning of peace.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mirth
#haiku
#poem

Starved of oxygen
Burned wood turns into charcoal
To draw conclusions.
#dailyhaikuprompt - charcoal
#haiku
#poem

Solitary path
A thousand lonely people
Walking single file.
#dailyhaikuprompt - lonely
#haiku
#poem

Night before Christmas
When you hardly sleep at all
Dreaming of stockings.
#dailyhaikuprompt - night
#haiku
#poem

First out of the gate
Opportunistic horse tail
Rampant on the field.
#dailyhaikuprompt - horse tail
#haiku
#poem

That's it for this year
We say each time there's late snow
Hoping it's the last.
#dailyhaikuprompt - late snow
#haiku
#poem

A tadpole grows legs
And transmutes tail into frog
Eventually.
#dailyhaikuprompt - tadpole
#haiku
#poem