simply senryu

Saturday, February 09, 2013

fantasy New Year trilogy

My fantasy wife inspired a trio of haiga for Chinese New Year 2013.
Happy Year of the Snake!

another New Year

she still expects

fireworks

Year of the Snake

she tempts me

with more apple pie

.

New Year

celebration

she brings my tripod

- photos taken by David Giacalone; Jumpin' Jack's fireworks, Scotia NY 2009 -

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

still missing in action

summer solstice!
my haiku muse
calls in sick

- photo: Riverside Park along the Mohawk River, Schenectady NY, by d.a. giacalone

- poem originally posted at dagosan's haiku diary on June 21, 2006, and truer than ever -

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

the ides of march sneaks up on me

ides of March
Spring's first cricket arrives
uninvited

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

National Breakfast Day

reprise:

breakfast alone
except for that cricket
behind the fridge

.. The Heron’s Nest (Vol. X, No. 4, December 2008)

- Good Cause: send a breakfast picture to http://shareyourbreakfast.com/ and Kellogg's will give a breakfast to a kid who needs it.

Monday, February 14, 2011

flamingo envy

Valentine's Day
envying
a pink flamingo

- a romantic pair of flamingos visit the Schenectady Stockade -

Thursday, February 03, 2011

happy 4709!

Chinese New Year
the only good restaurant
over-booked

.
.

Thursday, December 02, 2010

holiday memories

Here are a few senryu from the first week of "simply senryu" in late November 2005:

first Sunday
after Thanksgiving --
only the dog wants turkey

and,

home for Christmas -
three old bladders
and one bathroom

married a decade
she hides
the mistletoe

........... from second thoughts (2005)

Thursday, August 12, 2010

cones

a blue tongue
and a red mustache -
trading snow cones

poem: orig. pub. Frogpond (Winter 2008); photo: Arthur Giacalone

Sunday, July 04, 2010

Independence Day 2010

Independence Day
the parade ends
at the shopping mall

- photo by David Giacalone (July 2, 2010) along the Mohawk River, Schenectady NY -

- find fireworks (and watermelon) haiku and senryu by the f/k/a family of poets here; and photos of the annual Jumpin' Jack's fireworks display in Scotia, NY, taken from my backyard along the Mohawk River, there, for 2009, and there for 2010, at my photoblog -

Friday, July 02, 2010

BabyB's gotta go (again)

See my news about BabyBarista and his move to The Guardian at dagosan's haiku diary today.

casual Friday
the baby barrister
unbuttons his vest

Monday, June 21, 2010

stil readin' & weedin'

she weeds
while I read
summer begins

Thursday, March 25, 2010

the boys giggle

Palm Sunday -

the boys giggle
when the priest says "ass"

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

st. paddy's lament

March 17
they Twitter again
for a designated driver

-photo taken March 2010 from Riverside Park, Schenectady NY Stockade -

Sunday, March 14, 2010

mid-March blues

ides of March
flood waters where
the snowman stood