I'll dream in haiku

Morning, dark and wet
Slithering sleep won’t let me
Escape its slick scales

At the bottom of a stained porcelain cup are leaves strained for the future

It's what the tea leaves –
with tasteful chatting, polite
discretion – left out

(I like the ideas of a poem shorter than its title)

A video haiku

Sea rolls

Sea rolls shoulders, smites
boulders mocking loyalty
to indiff'rent moon

Mid-day dark

Mid-day dark and soft
splashing — rumbles of relief
Rain's inconstant gift

Foundation

Rusted rebar juts
through thick dust, its foundation
still lurking below

Confetti

Twirling seeds pour down
confetti into the glare
spring's contest over

Fledgling eyes

Six fledgling eyes stare
out from willow's feathered shade.
Flying's not safe yet.

Thorny ends

Locust laughs sweet 'n last
as loose-scrupled invaders
meet its thorny ends

Suspense

bulbous fruit by thin,
brittle stem suspended, sweats
a little suspense

Firefly

Unwary firefly
transmits its radiant notes.
Love can't be cautious.

Alliance

Waves whisper to sand
a grand alliance, withdraw.
Resistance erodes.

Prop-top

Prop-topped seed dropping
on its breeze, prays for proper
berth to burial

Young blooms

Young blooms don't suppose
impertinence of a nose
thrust uninvited

Mars

Mars' rock-puckered face
is an indignant red farce,
blowing cross kisses

Rousted

From winter's long roost
he's rousted, pulling up roots
spindly and thirsting

Zephyr's fooling

A gnarled oak pretends
not to feel Zephyr's fooling.
Sprouting buds giggle.

Chimes

ancient chimes ring out
brass rhymes, Aeolus pushing
herald songs of spring.

Dynasty

White-knuckle mountains
maintain their dynastic grip.
Valley waits below.

Mimicking the crow

Gleaming gold nib pokes
out from shadow-clutched fingers
mimicking the crow

Dedicated to the inimitable Human Being