Winter Solstice - Haiku

This Winter Solstice

Celebrating longer days &

Shorter nights with friends

Celebrating Winter Solstice with friends (ChatGPT image)

Summer Solstice - Limerick & Haiku

HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE!!

I like to think of the summer solstice as a time to reflect on how lucky humans are to have planet earth. Throughout time, summer solstice has been a time to celebrate earth’s bounty and fertility. Sadly humans have forgotten how to live simply with hardly a thought for the future. With that in mind, I composed the following limerick & haiku.
Note: Limerick & haiku created by me (not AI)
Earth image created by CoPilot AI

Humans are supposedly intelligent

But our hubris is quite malignant

And if we don’t find

Humility in time

We’ll be dust in a New York minute

Respect planet Earth 

It's not an all-you-can-eat buffet

If not now then when?

Fall Equinox- Haiku

Sunflowers fading •

A new season has begun •

Welcome to Autumn

Winter Solstice - Haiku

This Winter Solstice

I celebrate the shortest day

And brighter days ahead

Earth Day - Haiku

Keep planet Earth clean

It’s the only one we have

It's not Uranus

Live sustainably

Recycle, Reuse, Reduce

Earth Day every day

Treat Earth with respect

Good planets are hard to find

There's no planet B

Happy New Year 2022 - Haiku

A new year begun • 

Hope it will be better than • 

Twenty twenty-one 

Another new year • 

With many resolutions • 

Soon to be forgot

Earth Day 2021 - Haiku

Be kind to the Earth •

Good planets are hard to find •

Earth Day every day

Earth Day 2021

Gnomes & Daffodils - Haiku

Gnomes and Daffodils •

Give hope for happier times •

Springtime is coming

Frosty's Mittens - Haiku

Frosty the snow man •

Was a very dapper dude •

With awesome mittens

Happy New Year 2021 - Haiku

Hoping this New Year •

Brings you love, peace, happiness •

And healthier times

Winter Solstice - Haiku

This Winter Solstice •

Shortest day and longest night • 

Of the darkest year

This winter solstice will also mark the great conjunction when Jupiter and Saturn will be conspicuous in the western sky just after sunset and will be only 0.1 degree apart at the exact moment of the conjunction. Astronomers use the word conjunction to describe meetings of planets and other objects on our sky’s dome. They use the term great conjunction to describe meetings of Jupiter and Saturn, which are the two biggest worlds in our solar system. Though the two planets will appear spectacularly close together on the sky’s dome now, Jupiter and Saturn are actually 456 million miles (733.9 million km) apart. Saturn is nearly twice as far away as Jupiter.

Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions happen every 20 years; the last one was in the year 2000. But these conjunctions aren’t all equal. The 2020 great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn will be the closest since 1623 and the closest observable since 1226! 2020’s extra-close Jupiter-Saturn conjunction won’t be matched again until the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction of March 15, 2080.
Source: EarthSky.org

Earth Day 2020 - Haiku

Be kind to the Earth

It’s the only one we have

Earth Day every day

Our time on the Earth

Could be really, really small

If we aren’t careful

New Years Resolution - Haiku

I hear the New Year •

Asking what resolutions •

Will I break this year?

Happy New Year 2020 - Limerick

I give thanks for another year survived

But fear what the new year will provide 

Since I can't describe 

My feelings inside 

I hope this emoji will suffice

Happy New Year 2020 - Haiku

Hoping the New Year

Brings you peace and happiness

And much saner times

Winter Solstice - Haiku

In the Northern Hemisphere, Winter solstice 2019 was at 8:19 PM on Saturday, December 21. I love Winter Solstice because it means days are getting longer and hopefully sunny weather is only a few months away. One of my favorite birds is the American Robin because they stay here in the PNW throughout the winter and don’t seem to be affected by the long, dark winter days. Following is a haiku to celebrate Winter Solstice and the American Robin

The Winter Solstice 

Like the song of a robin 

Tonic for the blues

Days getting longer

After the Winter Solstice

Brightens my spirit

First day of winter 

Brought sunshine and long shadows 

Summer is coming

Post Mortem Pumpkins - Haiku

Halloween is done •

Pumpkins need a body bag •

May they Rest In Peace

My pumpkin carving skills haven’t improved much but I’d say I at least got my money’s worth out of these two 🎃🎃😂

Cherry Blossoms - Haiku

Cherry trees along Tom McCall Waterfront, Portland, OR 

Portland, Oregon comes alive around mid-April to May when the cherry trees bloom. The most famous group of cherry trees are located on the northern end of the Tom McCall Waterfront Park in the Japanese American Historical Plaza. These 100 Akebono cherry trees were donated in 1990 by the Japanese Grain Importers Association and were planted as a memorial to the 120,000 men, women and children who were held in internment against their will during World War II. 

Cherry blossoms along Tom McCall Waterfront, Portland, OR

Following are a couple haiku to celebrate spring and flowering of the cherry trees.

Cherry blossoms bring

Thoughts of rejuvenation

And life's brevity

Sakura petals

Like so many of life's dreams
Scatter to the wind

2019 New Years Resolution - Haiku

This year I resolve

To do the resolutions

I resolved last year 

Glaedelig Jul og Dejligt Nytar! - Danish Haiku

Vi ønsker jer alle

en rigtig Glaedelig Jul
og dejligt nytar!

Wishing one and all

a very Merry Christmas

and Happy New Year!