Tag Archives: haiku

IDES OF AUGUST

Posted on August 15, 2019 by John | 2 comments

Blueberry moonrise
never in the same place twice—
acorns ripe in oak trees.

Posted in Haiku 2019, Photographs, Poems 2019, Ranch Journal

Tagged Blueberry Moon, Full Green Corn Moon, Full Sturgeon Moon, haiku, Moon When All Things Ripen, photography, poetry, Wheat Cut Moon

UP THE HILL

Posted on August 6, 2019 by John | 3 comments

Not an easy climb
to rise above the bluster
of the self=righteous.

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Posted in Haiku 2019, Photographs

Tagged haiku, photography, poetry

LAST EMBRACE

Posted on June 13, 2019 by John | 3 comments

Held in high regard,
we let the dead lean until
we lay down to rest.

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Tagged haiku, photography, poetry

GOING HOME

Posted on May 24, 2019 by John | 1 comment

No need to worry
about fancy horsemanship—
the girls know the way.

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Posted in Haiku 2019, Photographs, Poems 2019

Tagged Allie Fry, cows, haiku, photography, poetry

SHIPPING DAY 2005

Posted on May 19, 2019 by John | Leave a comment

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Privilege and luck
to know and work with fine men
while getting older.

A part of them sticks
to the sides of gaping holes
they have left us with

to load semi-trucks
with ripened grass on the hoof—
cowmen to count on.

Returning home yesterday after a moving celebration of the life of Earl McKee, Robbin went through some her photos trying to determine the age of our old dog, only to run across her photo of Tom Grimmius and Art Tarbell on Dry Creek, two more from the old school that are no longer with us to help get the job done. Reminding me of H.C. “Bud” Jackson’s “The Good ‘Uns” about Cleo Denny and other local and progressive cattlemen, published in 1980.