100 haiku challenge - 29

After the drive home

on a dry and sunny day

my bed will hold me.

100 haiku challenge - 28

On a dark morning

before morning, after night,

it is time to stir.

please enjoy the additional sonnet that required writing:

Ode to A Dark Morning

Coming out of sleep

in the dark sky of morning before morning,

of morning after night.

There's only so much rotting to do

before it's time to roll up and roll out

carried toward the door

on the memory of a destination,

muscles in motion to nowhere.

The air is thick with dreaming and dew.

My tongue tastes the ghosts of Dr. Pepper

and Camel Lights and decades passed,

shaking off the cottonmouth before dawn.

I cherish the dark morning's shift to day

walking to waking with gentle feet.

100 haiku challenge - 27

Travel with a friend

has made the city bigger

and slowed down my breath.

100 haiku challenge - 26

After a long day,

up at three in the morning

listening to rain.

100 haiku challenge - 25

Bud casings fallen

Away from white-petaled blooms.

Springtime sidewalk crunch.

100 haiku challenge - 24

The ends of branches
Grow new or maybe not new
Extensions of life.

Yep. I like spring.

100 haiku challenge - 23

Without my glasses

The River is brown and gray

And dotted with shacks.

I love the train ride between St. Louis and Kansas City. The last few times I took it there was so much snow on the riverbanks and towns. I love the quiet gray and brown of late winter and early spring. Love seeing the nests and new life along branches.

Also I tend to strain my neck from facing out the window.