Tootfinder

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

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

Stained sidewalks tell of
The city's sweetness. Watch out -
Falling mulberries!
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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

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

Foggy, troubled day-
To-day life, let's lift our heads
To the clouds instead.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley:
🎵 Meine Beste Freundin
#HaikuSalut #MegMorley
https://open.spotify.com/track/0wetOdoslvSKJagKs7WWH3

A meaningless state -
Either, or - one compares and
Wants more, not plenty
#haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt

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

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

10:12pm, the
Windows are still open, the
City breathes warmth.
#haiku

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

Violets under
Leafless trees, a spring carpet
Green and violet.
#haiku

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uncomfortable
Right now, by summer today's
Rain will become grass.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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

A beautiful night
Traffic hum and robin song
Sweep me towards home
#haiku

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

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

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley:
🎵 Laugh and Cricket
#HaikuSalut #MegMorley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the sun on the
Platform waiting for the train
I am almost hot.
#haiku

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Baker Boy feat. Briggs & Haiku Hands:
🎵 FREAK OUT
#BakerBoy #Briggs #HaikuHands
https://open.spotify.com/track/0UZX8KVCRuUsIOKOK1lv9A

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

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

The train smells like a
Wet dog this morning. We could
Use wind and blue sky.
#haiku

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

Over-ripe plums of
Rain hurled in bursts last night
At bright-toned skylights.
#haiku

What now, Ulysses?
We shall revere and rejoice
Our Leopold Bloom.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bloom
#haiku
#poem

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

Campus open house.
On Sunday. Maybe one kid
Will enroll one day.
#haiku #academia

Crocuses burst forth
Through last year's leaves I am told.
But not here, not yet.
#DailyHaikuPrompt #haiku

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A German rabbit
Came to visit this morning
Guten tag mein hare.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hare
#haiku
#poem

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

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

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

Every day now
Brings a fresh WTAF.
What'll it be next?
#haiku

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shoreline at low tide
I take my mood from seeing
The wreckage revealed.
#dailyhaikuprompt - low tide
#haiku
#poem

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

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

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

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

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

If you don't like it
The spring sky offers a choice
Wait a few minutes.
#dailyhaikuprompt - spring sky
#haiku
#poem

It is too muddy
To plow any fields today
Ready and waiting.
#dailyhaikuprompt - plow
#haiku
#poem

Masses of frog eggs
Like biblical angels' eyes
Watching from the pond.
#dailyhaikuprompt - frog
#haiku
#poem

The little dog laughed
About the cow and the moon
Hey diddle diddle.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon
#haiku
#poem

Fiddlehead unfurls
Stored green energy spirals
To soak up Spring sun.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fiddlehead
#haiku
#poem

My brother in Christ
All this talk of Nirvana
Is making me Cross.
#dailyhaikuprompt - nirvana
#haiku
#poem

Well, well, Miss Wintour
All I'll say is: you gotta
Lotta Nirvana.
#dailyhaikuprompt - nirvana
#haiku
#poem

These militant geese
Staking out the gravel path
As their nesting pad.
#dailyhaikuprompt - geese
#haiku
#poem

Each sunny morning
Another catkin stretches
And sheds its fur coat.
#dailyhaikuprompt - catkin
#haiku
#poem

Having been eclipsed
New moon that once waxed above
Now waning away.
#dailyhaikuprompt - new moon
#haiku
#poem

Light in the evening
After sun throughout the day
Brings Spring's happiness.
#dailyhaikuprompt - evening
#haiku
#poem

See the wild rose bloom
Delicate fragrance with thorns
Perfectly balanced.
#dailyhaikuprompt - wild rose
#haiku
#poem

A burst of fresh air
Laden with the scent of spring
Catches me off guard.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fresh
#haiku
#poem

A tranquil jonquil
Pokes its head out of the soil
To bask in the sun.
#dailyhaikuprompt - tranquil
#haiku
#poem

Just a coupl'a buds
Hanging out in the warm sun
Shedding winter coats.
#dailyhaikuprompt - buds
#haiku
#poem

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

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

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