__ Enticed... this time within a forest's woods

of forest shade
as lady slippers blossom
a deer trail

I thank you John!  This was a comment I recently left at John's good blog, Zen Speug.

arched fingers
dance across the ivories
pianissimo 

__With my inability to properly categorize haiku/senryu within their modernistic senses, I'll simply label this as maiku; some may see it as senryu, while others might call it haiku, and I'm sure many would term this... junk.  Other opinions, supersede mine. 
__Time's changes are -suddenly seen- as indicated below:

old log cabin
hidden in these ancient woods
a satellite dish

__Could the cat's purr harmonize with the mosquitoes' hum?                                                        
day close
in the mosquitoes tune 
this sleepy cat 

__The Humming Birds and the Lilacs; the meeting.                                                                          
humming birds
hover in this lilac bush
the wings blossom

__Night sounds.                                                                                                                                                    
a dog's bark
between the crows' caws 
corn fields 

__Time now, that I return to fewer words as I follow this well known saying, 'Less is ... .' _m

train whistle
wheels thunder on the tracks
smell of rain

__In my comments, 'tis time I step back to fewer words; definitions as chosen by the reader, can often differ from those of a scribe... who intends no insults.  _m

Few words
often say more
than too many to count,
and in colloquial clamor
misread.
 

__Have you ever tripped over your own shadow_?  No_?   Well, I'd never thought as such... but_.  Smiles_!

moonlight walk
as I trip on my shadow
an owl laughs

__It's startling, is it not, that which old buildings can teach us?

buildings speak

silent words among themselves

the teachers 

Departure 17

As I drove down a back road in Winchester Ct. a while ago, this thought came to my mind. I didn't happen... but it could have. Smiles!


Whoop! Whoop!
Blue lights... . Ut-oh!

Officer:
__"License and registration please."
__"Sir... have you been drinking? Texting?  Step out of the car please."
__"Now, walk that straight line. Oh... ok, Now, will you take a sobriety test?"

Driver:
__Why yes, Officer, of course I'll take that test."

Officer:
__"Zero! Uh, sir, are you taking drugs? Do you know why I stopped you?"

Driver:
__No, Officer, not drinking, no drugs, no texting. Why did you pull me over?" 

Officer:
__"Sir, I termed you as... an  -ERRATIC DRIVER-!"

Driver:
__Well, Officer, first there was that dead skunk, then the pot-hole, and the loose manhole cover, The puddle? I couldn't be sure what was underneath all that water. Did you see that doe crossing the road... with her fawn? I  steered around them all; I suppose, then, I could be seen as...
 an  -ERRATIC DRIVER-, dodging about as I did."

Officer:
__"Have a nice evening sir."


 

Either way; thank you Iris! _m

a warm neck
near and far it taunts
the suns game

From two nights past, the storm... .


in this wind
the swamp birches dance
golden rod