Vacation Haiku, Spring 2019

house after house

pale white roses--

city ordinance?

palm fronds rustle

in afternoon breezes

then, back to sleep

why so skittish, friend?

stay, drink up!--

hummingbird

-Yorba Linda, CA

**

she does sudoku

I write haiku--

cultural misappropriation?

angry fly

ruins my nap--

something i said?

a skilled trapeze artist

steals breakfast from a bird feeder--

fat squirrel

gardener's blower,

honking car horns,

invading Paradise

-Lafayette, CA 

Birds at The Airport

  birds 

     at the airport—

   no canceled flights

  birds 

  at the airport 

     not impressed

birds

  at the airport

  laughing at complexity

birds

   at the airport—

are you my mother?

-San Jose Airport

Ken Owen   Van Niddy Press
May 2019