Haiku + Photo
Each month, Pacific Jubilee adds a new haiku with accompanying photograph to this collection. These are originally published in the monthly e-newsletter. You can subscribe to the Pacific Jubilee newsletter here.
Safe space respect love
Ending story bubbles up
Sacred bowl holds all
Haiku and photograph by Robert McDonald
Soft sand cool comfort
My feet cradled by the sea
Ocean rhythm care
Haiku and photograph by Wildflower
We see the bright trees
They grow beside us each year
We age together
Haiku and photograph by Star Weiss
Ease my paddle grip
Seek currents of aliveness
Let them steer my craft
Haiku and collage by Wilda Bostwick
Ancient maple tree
cradles what’s dear to her heart
After she lets go
photo and haiku by Julie Elliot
Kite-like, wings outstretched
Raven floats on the current,
Skilled faith in the now.
haiku by Wildflower
photo by Steve Harvey
Silence. Mystery.
She asks for nothing at all
but the world answers
photo and haiku by Julie Elliot
Reciprocity
Human and more than human
A sacred knowing
photo and haiku by Sarah Lyon
Light, you help me feel
the connected miracle
of all that is here
photo and haiku by Mary Palm
Fabric bags
Reusable tags
Making Christmas green
photo and haiku by Julie Elliot
May I have this dance?
whispered the melting snowfall.
Her arms reached out. Yes.
haiku by Julie Elliot
photo by Karen Kranabetter
I am still becoming.
Like you, I need time to transform.
Soon I will be pie!
photo and haiku by Peggy Allen
Listen to my breath
Much can be said without words
Join me (sigh) (sigh) (sigh)
photo and haiku by Wildflower
O light shimmering
Here I am face towards you
Drinking the unnamed
“Winter Cathedral" painting and haiku by Gwen Dirks
Wonder came along
on my walk to the shoreline
Stop here she whispered
photo and haiku by Julie Elliot
Brilliant blue up high
Golden orb eternity
Pierce my soul with joy
photo and haiku by Sharmaine vanStaalduinen
A joy to create
or relentless compulsion?
Only the stones know
photo and haiku by Julie Elliot
drawing and haiku by Stephanie Antonio
Opposites unite
beauty comes with dark and light
No white privilege here
photo and haiku by Julie Elliot
Oh, cedars great love
blood-sap is our earthly bond
skin and bark are one
haiku by Philip Newman
photo by Greg Rosenke
Golden buttercups,
how can something so tiny
embody the sun?
photo and haiku by Wildflower
Contemplate deeply
all of those things that cause your
heart to ache gladly
photo and haiku by Jennifer Sharlow
I bend to the rose
it feels the end of my nose
we both inhale ... ahhh
photo and haiku by Julie Elliot
Ancient wisdom speaks
to my open heart through touch
Sacred texture heals
photo and haiku by Kari Krogh
Travel the long edge
Stay true to short twisty turns
The path to center
photo and haiku by Wildflower
I rest with these seeds
Darkness believing in light
Confident in spring
photo and haiku by Mary Palm
White capped mountain peaks
Laden branches, blue above
Elicit wonder
photo and haiku by Emily Cherneski
Sunset at Chora
Darkened hills slice sea and sky
The pink edge of God
photo and haiku by Star Weiss
Perfume draws me in
Thorny arms reach out and grab
Complicated rose
photo and haiku by Julie Elliot
blue candle burning
illuminating deep thought
butterflies emerge
haiku by Corinne McAuley
photo by Cherie Westmoreland
The moon in the sky
is always whole, even on
nights we can’t see it
photo and haiku by Jennifer Sharlow
Let me listen like
an onion peeled in silence
hearing each layer
photo and haiku by Julie Elliot
