Crow Haiku #11

April lays out

but i play on hanging on

for miles ... to remember

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Thank you April, poetry, and jazz.  This month i set out to write a haiku everyday* accompanied by a photo. This combination of image with haiku is also known as haiga. And so this was my first ever haiga offering. Actually, i've been experimenting with haiga for quite some time and didn't even know it!

*The exceptions were three days in April (12-14), which don't have an entry. I chose instead to post four haiku (together they read like a short poem) with just one image for the entry on April 15. 

(View the complete April haiga offerings here)

Also, many offerings this month include links to jazz tunes which i felt enhanced the mood of the photo, words, or both. My thanks to you all for reading and listening ... 

Para Pachico, En memoria

Game Day: Dodgers vs. Nationals

neighborhood's pastime

spirits of Chávez Ravine 

round the bases home

The Road #1

just one more , baby

promise our someday won't stray

i'm going your way

Sky Joy Flight

the fruit of your sky

tastes sweet with resilient joy

fierce flowery flight

"Where Is Everybody?"

this creepy old town

aint got nobody to hold

my hand as i laugh

Friends & Neighbors

so purrfectly close

so curious to know you

so far our whiskers

Running Free

liberate sidewalks

aint no limits/ make the leap

improvise your steez

for Darryl

You Are Here

i keep looking up

the promise of renewal

blossoms as clouds part

Pomegranate Paws

petals, little shields

protecting the paths we prowl

wield beauty with song

Flow

city tides rise, crash

along freeway shorelines

after hours commute

Together

we can be like cats

companions in light and shade

keeping it real cool

Stargate

flower petal walk

across your stellar wavelengths

shadows pulse and bloom

Spring Won't Let Go

boulevards sprout beauty

defiant through the cracks

kiss in a shadow

Across The Sands

we always runnin'

not too late, jump aboard man,

join the caravan!

Crow Haiku #10

an embrace returns

my feathered soul to your sky

never let me go

Abrazo Embrace

i want to see you

como te voy olvidar

you are everywhere 

tan solo estoy

in sweet company we walk

y no te siento

my lips moisten yours

memoria agrietada

tender healing kiss

las nubes flotan

leave soft trails of deseo

gotitas de love


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Been kind of a slow week with the mobile photos. But some good news: after 4 1/2 months without a job, i finally began a temp gig the day after my birthday. Been up and down, driving around (yes, driving!), and although i haven't taken many pix that inspire haiku, i haven't abandoned my haiku-a-day for National Poetry Month. Call it a post-birthday artistic lull; however, reflecting on new directions in art, this blog, and life. Instead of scheduling four different posts for the four days i've been absent (even though it makes more sense for continuity), i make  just one offering with four new haiku accompanying a photo from the early Spring archive. I'm thankful for the embrace of friends and family who've been of beautiful company and support during these tough months, to the ancestors and Creator, for this dream, this breath, this life, this day to live fully ... and to you, dear reader. 

Winds of Change

East

South

West

North

spun 'round sun's rhythm

facing new light and wisdom

rebirth of spirit 

Sweetness of Spring

branch of Babylon

reaching mother's open palm 

blooms in sacred hearts

Crow Haiku #9

aint tryin' to hear

still perched on a memory

disconnect and sing

Rascals

little explorers

discover and laugh and play

taking giant steps

... And Through The Woods

i dreamt u chased me

through a forest like faeries

we found our magic

2.0X

passion sprouts fragile

promises between our lips

this moment endures

Compost

sustain and nourish

every block cultivating

seeds of resistance

Solar Haiku #4

first light eye awake

breathe in the pulse of you

to create this morning

Carved

struggle is sculpted

by sensual hands and heart

our bodies are free

"I have always wanted my art to service my people--to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential."

~Elizabeth Catlett (15 April 1915 - 2 April 2012)


Ms. Catlett's sculptures, especially her wood and linoleum carvings, are extremely  moving and inspiring as they, indeed, stimulate ... i offer this beautiful Coltrane tune which also sculpts a somber, yet liberating, mood.

Ciento - 100

... for my 100th post i've chosen an image that pretty much sums up what this daily photo blog's been about so far: a lone crow perched on a telephone pole, against a bright blue sky and rising first quarter moon. Despite going four months without work, i've kept my head up, looking up and all around at the magic available everyday. Indeed, i have a lot to be thankful for, as i practice remaining present through each passing phase. The only thing missing here are the two  stray cats i feed (which reside in the area just beneath this telephone pole) and, of course, my boy Moon.

But enough commemorating (no need for a lengthy reflection as i did for my 50th post), i have 'flower and song' to articulate and jazz to appreciate ... I'm humbled by all the views, comments and support. Gracias. 

groovin' high to be

bop and blue longin' for u

somewhere there's music

Guardian

"Knowledge is a moth ... The moths have been the intimate helpers of sorcerers from time immemorial." ~'Don Juan' in Carlos Castaneda's Tales of Power

songs illuminate

dancing along scented paths

from petals to flame

April is here! Along with being my favorite month of the year, April is National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month! Oh, how will i celebrate? Stay tuned ... and dig, and flit, on this!