July Haiku Challenge

Post your haiku on the subject of 'winter travel' or 'spring travel' using the comments area. Visiting haiku poets are welcome to add their haiku.

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  1. Alex Ryan17 July 2011 at 05:01

    a sense of comfort
    in your voice
    red fireplace embers

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  2. Alex Ryan17 July 2011 at 05:07

    night clatter
    from the chalet roof
    snow fall excites

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  3. Alex Ryan17 July 2011 at 20:01

    still chairlift
    snow covered eucalypts
    leaning against the wind

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  4. Alex Ryan18 July 2011 at 13:09

    ski tracks
    traversing powder snow
    a path least travelled

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  5. Alex Ryan18 July 2011 at 13:20

    a cracking pine
    envelopes the valley
    heavy snow fall

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  6. Alex Ryan18 July 2011 at 13:22

    trickling water
    first remnants of spring
    like Japanese torture

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  7. lynette18 July 2011 at 20:22

    mimosa
    on a market stall in Athens
    spring sunshine

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  8. lynette18 July 2011 at 20:22

    under the wingtip
    a pattern
    of iced mountains

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  9. lynette18 July 2011 at 20:23

    cable car
    the skis
    swish off

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  10. Sasha20 July 2011 at 05:42

    under the moon
    the foresail arcs through spray
    spring wind

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  11. Margaret R20 July 2011 at 17:46

    a crow
    perches on an icy powerline
    black and white

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  12. Margaret R20 July 2011 at 17:49

    marshmallow landscape
    slowly melts
    black ice

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  13. Alex Ryan21 July 2011 at 01:00

    a lonely crow's screech
    the crack
    of a falling branch

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  14. Black Dog Gallery27 July 2011 at 05:41

    winter wind
    fat rain switches on and off
    soil turns to sea

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  15. Margaret R27 July 2011 at 19:01

    candlelight reflects
    in a child's eyes
    snow lantern festival

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  16. Alex Ryan5 August 2011 at 19:12

    afternoon sun
    touches the window pane
    frost fern melt

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