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haiku

see also ‘senryu’

Pecan trees

2026 January 12th2026 January 11th

blue-sky chilly breeze
accentuates bare branches
with starling-shaped leaves

Terri Guillemets

Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, animals, birds, birds of arizona, european starlings, favorites, haiku, leaves, nature, outdoors, poems, popular, seasons, sky, terri guillemets, trees, weather, wind & breeze, winter

Doppelgänger

2025 March 16th2022 February 12th

moonlit winter trees
bare branches paint gray shadows
ghostly risen roots

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, favorites, gray, haiku, moon, nature, night, poems, popular, seasons, terri guillemets, trees, winter

Visibility

2026 January 26th2026 January 26th

i can see my breath
iced fog in front of my face
makes bare scenes snowy

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Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, breathing, haiku, morning, nature, outdoors, poems, senses, terri guillemets, weather, winter

Chillin’

2026 January 12th2025 December 20th

winter morning chills
still, birds gather by water
and take the cold plunge

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Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, animals, birds, haiku, morning, nature, poems, terri guillemets, water, weather, winter

January breeze

2026 January 12th2026 January 8th

winter morning birds
weave song through misty gray clouds
leaves add harmony

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Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, birds, clouds, haiku, leaves, morning, nature, outdoors, poems, sounds, terri guillemets, trees, winter

Flyby

2026 February 15th2026 February 12th

yellow butterfly —
did your wisp fluttering wings
make this springtime breeze?

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Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, butterflies, haiku, insects, poems, spring, terri guillemets, wind & breeze, wings, yellow

Brisk breezes

2026 January 12th2026 January 10th

weathered winter leaves
skip and tumble down the road
racing towards the spring

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Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, haiku, leaves, nature, outdoors, poems, popular, seasons, spring, terri guillemets, weather, wind & breeze, winter

Opening night

2025 March 17th2023 July 26th

monsoon winds tell tales
lightning dances thunder sings
rain is main event

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Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, haiku, heat wave, lightning, monsoon, nature, night, phoenix, poems, rain, sky, sounds, summer, terri guillemets, thunder, thunderstorms, water, weather, wind & breeze

Ruffled feathers

2026 March 17th2025 December 22nd

serene spring morning
calm but for two birds brawling
uh — that’s not fighting

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Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, birds, ha ha, haiku, nature, poems, spring, terri guillemets

Phases of morning

2026 March 17th2026 March 8th

sky becomes full dawn
towhees call out to half moon
at quarter till sun

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Categories Haiku Journal Tags -all posts-, abert's towhees, birds, birds of arizona, haiku, moon, morning, poems, sky, sunrise & sunset, terri guillemets, wordplay

Moonlit plum tree

2025 March 16th2010 March 22nd

the moon and plum tree
make flow’ry springtime shadows—
lovers of the night

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Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, flowers, haiku, light, moon, nature, night, poems, seasons, spring, terri guillemets, trees

Thunderstorm

2025 March 17th2023 July 26th

boom rustle tip tap
tippity clink rumble crack
whoosh whish shhh fade black

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Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, haiku, monsoon, poems, rain, sounds, storms, terri guillemets, thunder, thunderstorms, weather, wind & breeze

It’s a dry heat streak

2025 March 17th2023 July 30th

full moon monsoon clouds
glow pale light through windy trees
parched leaves shadow dance

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Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, arizona, climate change, clouds, desert, haiku, heat wave, leaves, monsoon, moon, nature, night, poems, seasons, summer, terri guillemets, trees, weather
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