last letter

sitting alone
on a park bench
this end of summer
she rereads his last letter
still damp with tears

Vic Gendrano

Opposites...

autumn rain
and a bitter, cold wind.
- the warmth of hot apple cider

sunset

In the fall

In the fall
Leaves turned to dirty brown
I spotted one
~
©2006 Kai Croft

Cassie's point of view
might not be quit that of mine
I know
but we sit together
on the bench
admiring the view
over the moor, forest and the city.
She sit quit close
as long as I
scratching her
behind her ears -
Enough of that
she just let go
looking back at me
saying - now let's get going,
there's some sheep down there
I have to visit.

mild autumn
bring good spirit to
man and beast

late September,
street café - a shower ruffles
my tortillas

clam shacks
closed for the season
gull's cry

matthew and bella
playing with bubbles at dusk
autumn equinox

Fiftymile Mountain

October, and I awake atop Fiftymile Mountain, southern Utah. We hiked up the evening before, up the great east-facing scarp that overlooks the canyons of the Escalante River. No trucks, no ATVs, you can only get here by foot, or horse, or mule. We camp near a spring, water trickling out of a pipe into a trough. There is a cabin. It belongs to Mary ... I don't know her last name, but she ran cattle here for years. Now the mountain is part of a National Monument and she fights the BLM. She's a tough gal. Three husbands. One fell off of his horse on the trail, struck his head on a rock. One she shooed away with a shotgun. The third probably had sense enough to just leave. The cabin is quiet. Aspens are turning gold in fields of sagebrush, an unusual sight. In four days we see two people, father and son, hunting mule deer the old-fashioned way ... walking, in dust-covered Filsons.

my new boots
fill with cheatgrass;
sticks to cows, too

return trip--
I share the warm truck
with a fly

gray sky
behind stained glass --
autumn equinox

september morning

equinox

moonless night
harvesting corn under
xenon arc lamps

in night times
little chills ran down my spine
no more summer­-----
~
©2006 kai croft

summer's end --
no longer hoping
for a breeze

- Find over 100 haiku about wind, by two dozen haijin, at the new f/k/a haiku on the wind page -

autumn rain

autumn rain —
I put away
my Red Sox cap

the crunch
of a leaf's skeleton -
autumn equinox

.

first day at secondary school
he is dressed
before sunrise

Sangeet

still too hot
Scottish Highland cattle
sweating in September

smoke on the breeze -
the forethought of what we have
yet to lose

autumn equinox --
scratching this year's last
mosquito bite

- click for f/k/a's collection of autumn equinox haiku -

mid-september
birdshit the colour
of elderberries

Little Onion

warm summer wind
in early autumn
extenuating circumstances of coming winter

layers of autumn

layers of autumn
starting to fall
softly

in the pasture
the cows' faces
covered with burrs

dying ash -
a hummingbird drinks
from sapsucker holes

sunflowers

autumn breeze
our neighbour's sunflowers
sway

in brown withered leaves
my mind wander
empty car park

september morning

cord to split--
every ten swings
I'll miss once


hummingbird--
the feeder isn't empty
it's frozen

first time
the furnace clicks on -
smell of burning dust

Dog Rose gathering
Bluetit's from miles around
autumn hips the agenda

introducing

introducing fall

in the playground

under the clouds-

colorful piles of jackets

in the lost and found box

thistledown
caught in a spider web . . .
first day of school

September

September —
the weeds in our garden
start to turn brown

autumn leaves

autumn leaves --
my neighbor's
plastic dahlias


rush hour
a flock of starlings
in the red willow


autumn sun
through a window
the scent of chili

today is my Name Day :)

.

Natalia L. Rudychev
.
For many families in Russia Name Day is as big as Birthday!

back to school

photo by mmm

Offspring

 

full moon morning

full moon morning-
noticing the silence
of cicadas

autumn rain

autumn rain
time to be moving on
down the road


photo by Kris Foo
words by Mandy Smith

crops golden goddess
shining on earth's bounty
full harvest moon

harvest moon

harvest moon —
a shopping cart
full of beer cans

autumn wind
the farmers spreading
cow manure

Leaves sways

Leaves sways
In the wind blowing
Goodbye summer
~
©2006 kai croft

Labor Day

Labor Day...
I sleep
’til noon

labor day walk

labor day walk..

light rain washes away

summer

smoke

Sept. 4/06 - photo from my back door (untouched)
Today, the Tatoosh Complex fire has crossed the border, and smoke covers much of the BC Interior.
Click here for a photo of the fire from NASA's Earth Observatory site. (The NASA photo is a week old -- the fire has grown since then.)

Autumn haiku

(text by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, photo by Gabriel Ivanescu)

posted on behalf of the authors as requested.

September

September —
just saying it
makes me shiver

hurricane season -
we press cider with
the windfall

pumpkin pie