Christmas Haiku

Christmas lights
Illuminate houses by night
Bringing joy
To the world…..

— Scott A. Ogburn, M.Arch.


This was sent to me by an acquaintance in Philly. Nice haiku, no?

At the beach

I adore the feeling of my sinking my feet into cold seawater.


WATER
Everything on the earth bristled, the bramble
pricked and the green thread
nibbled away, the petal fell, falling
until the only flower was the falling itself.
Water is another matter,
has no direction but its own bright grace,
runs through all imaginable colors,
takes limpid lessons
from stone,
and in those functionings plays out
the unrealized ambitions of the foam.
— Pablo Neruda