Sunday Summer Haiga

Japanese-Style Image Poems

Hello all,

Today, it’s truly summer, with the high nineties here in coastal Delaware, and we’ve had our first brief power interruption. The luxury homes go up right and left, over farmers’ fields, and the native pine and hardwood stands wane. There is much to be said about global warming and infrastructure deficits. Next month, we’ll return to our home state of New Jersey, once the Garden State, to a well-established 55+ community — built in the 1970s it skirts the Pine Barrens — Ah, well, our decision to move closer to family is sound.

Please enjoy a small collection of my photo poems: Haiga. I’ve had many published in journals over the years.

no limit where you go and what you do learn to do - don’t draw the line - or do

grit - clouds awash in granite

calm evening fish for supper

wary anole basks and bakes - wants not for bread or roses

entering a moment - how the light filters in memory https://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/2507/-entering-by-mary-ellen-gambutti-usa

storm tide - fragments of seaweed and line drift

Writing Haiku and photo Haiga, I’m inspired by nature, often water. Senryu Haiga can be ironic or satiric, often based on a human characteristic. I don't adhere to the traditional formula of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five. :-)

powered through eons before birds were birds - pelican

ragged against the ether’s margins - black crow soars (thank you, Joni)

heavens above silly geese

through these trees we pass again - warm wind

rise to the occasion — red sauce bubbles in a copper pot

©Mary Ellen Gambutti