Category: haiku challenge

Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge this month. Driving in town yesterday, we had to stop for a procession of nearly two dozen deer to cross the road. these deer are towniessleeping under front porchesfeasting on flowers

Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com  I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge this month. Today, we saw a bald eagle flying south beside the highway as we drove north. bald eaglewings wideabove the prairie

Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative in a daily haiku challenge this month. When we were hiking in Wind Cave a few days ago, we spotted something I’ve never seen in the park before: a dead bison. Not, perhaps, the most festive topic for a haiku, but I can’t…

Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge this month. It doesn’t take long for our tree to begin looking rather sad. Post presents, there’s something a bit forlorn about Christmas decorations anyway, but when you’ve got cats climbing around in the tree constantly, it begins…

Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge this month. After the presents are unwrapped on Christmas, we leave the piles of paper on the floor all day as a special Christmas treat for cats. They creep and pounce and hide and tiptoe and spook and…

Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge this month. It was a mild day, and we slipped out between batches of cookies to take a short hike in Wind Cave National Park, made even shorter by the appearance of two bison just off the trail.…

Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge this month. I’d like to be the kind of mom who loves board games, but I have maybe a fifteen-minute attention span for them, and you know how many board games take fifteen minutes to play? None. But…

I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge in December. old dog staggers,rights herself, dances againafter her kong

Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge this month. Another haiku inspired by today’s drive to Rapid City. storm clouds cast shadows over undulating hills once an ocean bed

Image CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Steve Rotman on Flickr.com I’m joining Trina Haase at Trinarrative for a daily haiku challenge this month.  Today’s haiku was inspired by a herd of bison I spotted on the drive to Rapid City. bison on the ridge silhouettes against blue sky yellowing grasses