in windowless lab
pumps humming and air hissing
not haiku-worthy

composed March 2009 at CU Boulder

Went twenty one hours
without email, not by choice
pleasant withdrawal

Sudden rainshower
as I biked in, sunny rides
are forgettable

dark sea horizon
pounded by angled sunbeams
still serenely straight

Sat down, couldn't sing

"it is well with my soul" was

her favorite song

Students on the roof
the moon hidden behind clouds
is it that bright spot?

--composed 20 September

Useless layabout
in the sun my only task
watch the horizon

The air has a bite

the world ablaze with color

soon all will be white

-composed today by Leah Garhovd in Oslo, Norway

Hard-working cricket
chirps alone as usual
we only have one

--composed 10 Sep 2013

Evening fog rolls in
as we bounce on trampoline
summer heat over

composed 8 Sep 2013

Green canyon rises
crowded with conical firs
stretching toward sun
composed 1 June 2013 behind Boulder, CO
photo by Ed Book

Bricks, concrete, streetlights
wild mountains look down on me
I return their gaze

composed 18 March 2009 in Boulder, CO

Tilted slabs of stone
bask in the sun, while above
ice patches glisten

composed 18 Mar 2009 in Boulder CO

floating in harbor
sea otter crunches lobster
evening fog rolls in

-composed 19 August 2013 in Monterey, CA

The top of Long's Peak
won't emerge from morning clouds
a mile above me
composed 1 June 2013 while climbing Green Mountain behind Boulder, CO
photo by Joe Parvis, www.summitpost.org

a cricket choir sings
as sun warms the Flatirons
snow gone, world of green
--composed June 1 while hiking in Boulder's Chautauqua Park

Chocolate mountains
ooze dark matter down dry flanks,
swallowed by white sands

-composed October 2011 while flying over Arizona

12,000 foot snow
across green Utah valley
Dad's shaver buzzes

-composed 27 May 2013, in Richfield

Gulf of Mexico
clouds from above or below
shaped like animals

-composed Oct 2011 returning from Orlando

yellow to blue sky
crescent moon lights LAX
obliviously

composed 13 May 2013

Sixty miles per hour
but clouds are stationary
above racing trees

composed July 2011 on a bus in Vermont

call, ring phone, hang up
did this twice and Mom would come 
pick me up from school

After sunny lunch
hard to back down the driveway
leaving Dad alone

--composed today returning from Sun Valley

Sorted clothes, earrings
remember when she wore these?
now lost in sadness

Seventy five years
four months and a day it was
short but filled with love

She is asleep now

no telling when she will rise

we await His call

--composed today by guest haikuist Bob Klein in honor of our mothers, both of whom we lost in the last year.

Ivy for friendship
rosemary for remembrance
honoring dear Jan

--photo and haiku by Kathy Klaasen,

A copy of this haiku was placed on every table (along with the named plants) at the lavish lunch put on by the wonderful people of Bethel Church, Sun Valley CA, after yesterday's memorial service "celebrating the earthly and heavenly life of Jan De Haan." Thank you, Bethel!

I did not know her
some smiles, a kind word or two
perhaps yes, I did 

composed 7 Feb 2013 by guest haikuist Tobias James

Dad laughs at comics
yet cries every time he prays
he will be okay

composed 5 Feb 2013 by Jane Hilbrands

Winter morning fog
don't want to get out of bed
memory too strong

composed 4 Feb 2013

Eight months to let go
and suddenly she is free

heaven forever

composed 2 Feb 2013 by Jane Hilbrands
in Sun Valley






Green Santa Rosa
I can't believe such beauty
goes on without her

composed 3 Feb 2013 in Ventura County

Chaotic apple
at twilight Peter and I
cut away dead wood

composed 26 January 2013

Green shag on the ceiling
Elvis liked to sleep 'til 4
in the jungle room

composed in early 1998
at Graceland

Sun low in the sky

Long V's of geese overhead

White breasts lit by sun

composed 22 Jan 2013 by Rolan Christofferson

Boulder, CO

While Mom slept, played hymns
on out-of-tune piano
her last weeks, poor Dad

composed 20 January 2013

Daffodils shoot up 
through rain-moistened soil
behind Christmas tree

composed Jan 1997

Twinkling eyes a smile
starry night immensity
warm winter silence

composed 31 December 1996

Endless grid cities
give the pilot directions
over Iowa

composed 5 Dec 1995

Blue red and orange shapes
fasten seatbelt while seated
just four hours more

composed 5 Dec 1995 by guest haikuist Laurel De Haan
on a transatlantic flight

Tu mi amigo
curlycue tablecloth sketch
Pablo Picasso

composed Nov 1995
in Barcelona, Spain

sketch by DDH:  James or Cheryl's cat

Enantiomers,
A puzzle in the mind's eye.
I made a model.

composed in o-chem
by guest haikuist Tobias James

Distant thunderstorm
breezes bring warnings of 
falling coconut

composed May 1994
on Boracay Island, Philippines

The heat of the day
book in a shady hammock
neighbors chattering

composed 3 May 1994
Boracay Island, Philippines

Big green things on trees
I recall they are called "leaves"
strangely familiar

composed April 1995
in Oslo, Norway

Pink, beefy temptress.

I shall never again be

vegetarian

composed 7 January 2013 by guest haikuist
Rolan Christofferson in Boulder, CO

Afternoon tea cost
$130
worth every penny



composed 14 Aug 2012
Butchart Gardens, Victoria BC
Yes, I'm calling "every" two syllables!
Furthermore, there is no "and" in $130 ...

The chorus out back,

unseasonably loud, has

caught my attention:

Robins, like apples,

hang from bare boughs, dotting the

winter sky with red.

In constant motion,

other birds emerge, having

hidden in plain sight:

A nick of blue sky

peels away from one tree trunk;

a jay rolls, then lights.

composed 7 January 2013 

by guest haikuist Michelle Cuthbertson

in Lafayette, CO

Dana Point land ends
abruptly in gray morning
like a single step








composed 24 Feb 2012
on northbound Pacific Surfliner

sand castle attracts
dozen filipino kids
who make additions

composed 1 May 1994
Boracay Island, Philippines

languid August day
soft red plum, tree-ripened, falls
bounces off my hand

composed 14 Aug 2012
Butchart Gardens, Victoria BC