Category Archives: Haiku 2015

HUNGRY AND LONELY

Posted on May 6, 2015 by John | 1 comment

No one to visit me
but this familiar stranger
with nothing to eat.

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Posted in Haiku 2015, Photographs, Poems 2015, Ranch Journal

Tagged Dry Creek, roadrunner, roadrunner nest

ROADRUNNER NEST

Posted on May 5, 2015 by John | 11 comments

No reason to leave
the comfort of Prickly Pear
to make our fortunes.

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Posted in Haiku 2015, Photographs, Poems 2015, Ranch Journal

Tagged Dry Creek, roadrunner

WPC: THE DANCE

Posted on April 28, 2015 by John | 3 comments

In the branding pen,
the steady dance of old hands
celebrating spring.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Motion

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Posted in Haiku 2015, Photographs, Poems 2015, Ranch Journal

Tagged branding, Greasy Creek, weekly-photo-challenge

THORNY ORNAMENTS

Posted on April 25, 2015 by John | Leave a comment

Christmas in April,
Wild Cucumber on a dead
Manzanita tree.

Echinopsis Oxygona

Posted on April 24, 2015 by John | 1 comment

A one-day bloom
as the hills turn brown again
around Mother’s Day.

Work of Art

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Tagged Echinopsis oxygona, flower-friday

HOW MANY MOONS?

Posted on April 4, 2015 by John | 5 comments

If we measured life
in moons misused and wasted,
how many left full?

                              And as the moon rises he sits by his fire
                              Thinking about women and glasses of beer
                              And closing his eyes as the dogies retire
                              He sings out a song which is soft but it’s clear
                              As if maybe someone could hear…
                                        – James Taylor (“Sweet Baby James”)