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Sooner or later
Gaia has her way with us
all will be seduced.
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(c) 2014, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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(Photo from July, 2011. Re-posted from 2014)
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Posts Tagged ‘senryu’
Kismet
Posted in Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged attraction, destiny, Gaia, honey bee, Love, nature, poem, Poetry, pollination, seduction, senryu on April 8, 2018| 29 Comments »
Found
Posted in Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged beach, Gaia, gift, nature, poem, Poetry, seashell, senryu, sunset on February 23, 2018| 35 Comments »
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Sunset gave itself
to a seashell on the beach
that’s where she found it.
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(c) 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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(This shell was found in 1982, on the beach in Edmonds, Washington. In all my years of beach-combing, I never found another one like it.)
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Endurance
Posted in Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged birch trees, endurance, Gaia, nature, poem, Poetry, senryu, survival, winter on February 17, 2018| 39 Comments »
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Birch trees catch my eye
deep in the trough of winter
white bark withstanding.
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© 2014, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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Partial of an original watercolor by my grandmother,
Lilly Bjornstad. (She painted this when she was about 100. She lived to 108.)
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(re-post)
First Snow
Posted in Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged Earth, Gaia, nature, poem, Poetry, senryu, sky, snow, surrender on January 7, 2018| 21 Comments »
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Heavy laden sky
surrenders to lure of earth
forest is hush-hush.
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© 2013, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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(A re-post)
Photo taken 12-20-2013
Uncut
Posted in Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged Earth, flowers, Gaia, garden, labels, nature, poem, Poetry, senryu, so-called-weeds, weeds on September 14, 2017| 48 Comments »
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When we let it grow
a weed might just surprise us
with uncut beauty.
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(c) 2014, 2017 Betty Hayes Albright
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(a re-post)
Before Sunset
Posted in Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 2010 - present, tagged fairies, moon, nature, opal, poem, Poetry, senryu, sunset on June 24, 2017| 25 Comments »
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Moon like an opal
hanging from a coral thread
veiled by fairy clouds.
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(c) 2013, 2017 Betty Hayes Albright
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(re-post, revised; photo from 2013)
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