haiku hikes

a ground web flutters therea golden leaf inside its fall not yet complete

Haiku by Rey MunizPhoto by John Koepke

ghostly, tipped with greenbleached white trunk wrings to the sunwrinkled, odd man out

Haiku by Mandy Whitlock Photo by Jessica Manley

undulating waves of dormant brown grasses feed rain lilies rising

Haiku by Nancy Heneghan Photo by John Koepke

spring rains seep intowinter’s sullen crevicessummer fills them up

Haiku by Jessica ManleyPhoto by John Koepke

The chicharras singas faded green tunasturn slowly to red

Haiku by Roberto Botello Photo by John Koepke

hidden nurserylace cacti wedged between rocksthumbs up!

Haiku by Mobi Warren Photo by John Koepke

lichen limestone cruststrewn juniper leaves and raina hog trough then

Haiku by Dianne Simpson Photo by John Koepke

inhospitablerocks orange, green, yellow, blackclings tenacious life

Haiku by Laura Henley Photo by John Koepke

insistent birdtalking to himselfnagging the woods

Haiku by Megan StacyPhoto by Jessica Manley

grasses cast shadowover whisper-quiet rocks,starving for rain

Haiku by Tanya R . Gutierrez Photo by Dianne Simpson

jagged and hollowwalking on broken dishesthe limestone path

Haiku by Karen WeehlerPhoto by John Koepke

the cicada’s humis abruptly cut off—did the power go out?

Haiku by Adriana Sanchez Alexander Photo by John Koepke

swaying movementson slow moving breezesjoyful summer dance

Haiku by Susan Albert Photo by John Koepke

rock pivots andcactus pricks while mud slides:every step careful

Haiku by Elyzabeth Earnley Photo by John Koepke

lichen speaks coralancient language of the sea--limestone remembers

Haiku by Mobi WarrenPhoto by Emily Ho

sudden yellow flash,a bumblebee’s swift commuteexplodes the silence

Haiku by Natalia Wieczorek Photo by John Koepke

damp, my pen quitsraindrops sink into papercloud writes a poem

Haiku by Mobi Warren Photo by Jessica Manley

Brushed by last night’s moon,Miniature limestone cratersDimple the path

Haiku by Mobi Warren Photo by Jessica Manley

Undergrowth sprouts upovergrown summer game trailsmix hot dragon soup

Haiku & Photo by Jessica Manley

una huella dearmadillo revelatierra suave

Haiku by Roberto Botello Photo by Jessica Manley

turkey vulturesfinessing the wind— figure eights

Haiku by Elizabeth A. Wells Photo by Jessica Manley

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