_Wide Awake & Dreaming_ by Jane Beal

My new haiku micro-chapbook, Wide Awake and Dreaming,
is now available from Origami Poems.

Wide Awake
and Dreaming

1

morning mist
the mountain
disappears

pink hibiscus
the hummingbird
appears

2

at night, the Lighthouse,
lit up for a wedding
my lover and I walk past

sitting by dark water,
I listen to his heart
the illuminated bridge

a white-crowned sparrow
disappears
into the green hedge

3

my shadow
walks through the shadows
of autumn trees

yellow light on the blue mountains
yellow leaf on the blue road

up the gold hill
a dark tree
white sky

4

winter rain
against my window
awakens me

the sky turns
white, gray, ash-blue
then, the lightning

snow
on the mountain
my heart full of yearning

5 

white, wind-blown roses
in the rain
thorns scratch my hands

full moon
shining on white roses
little children

white roses
reach up toward white clouds
blue sky 

6

Ever After

the wind blows
yellow ginko leaves
onto dark, wooden roof shingles

I turn the corner
the moon is still following
me around the bend

jb

• You can click, download, print, fold, and cut this micro-chap into your own little book! Directions here.

_Bliss_ by Jane Beal

My new haiku micro-chapbook, Bliss,
is now available from Origami Poems.

BLISS

sunset over Wales
a girl looks through the window
of a speeding train

from a tower-top
in a big, modern city
the medieval bridge

walking down the hill
to Indian food in Leeds
the blue hydrangea

Museum Gardens
a Yorkshire hedgehog waddles
under a green bush

at Castle Howard
little, brown butterflies
dance in the heather

an old woman sits
on the park bench by herself –
the river flows by

jb

 (Britain, 2019)

• You can click, download, print, fold, and cut this micro-chap into your own little book! Directions here.

 

 

_Garden_ by Jane Beal

My poetry micro-chap, Garden, is now available
from Origami Poems (2019).

Special directions:
how to download, save, print,
and fold the chapbook.

 GARDEN

entering the garden 

water trickles down
the hollow of an old stone
a bird stoops to drink

turtle pond

a turtle hatchling
is all alone on her stone
but the sun is warm 

two turtles sunbathe
on a stone in the dark pond
watching me watch them 

an older turtle
circles in the pond water
looking for a stone 

duck pond

the hen is asleep
but the drake is holding his
morning yoga pose

humble waterfall
pouring down into the pond
going deeper still

afternoon sunlight
a green leaf in deep water
reaches for the sky

origami in the garden

white origami
cast in metal and shining
birds and butterflies

a paper airplane!
then the white peace crane unfolds
to become a star

shining buffalo
with a small bird on his back
looking out at us

leaving the garden

the old mother-tree
and her branching canopy
stays in memory

jb

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for Michelle Smoler
teacher, yogi, neighbor, sister, friend

***

inspired by the artwork of Robert Lang and Kevin Box
in the exhibit at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens
Claremont, California * April 2019