On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Munira
Twilight is the most magical time of day – the time when night and day meet for a while and produce shifting shadows and glorious sunrises and sunsets, the time when stars begin to fade or emerge. It is a time for reflection as the day is born or begins to die, as another cycle begins or ends. And it is a time for poetry, a chance to watch and wonder as a tree or a flower begins to shine in the rising sun or fade as darkness gathers.
twilight—
marriage
of night and day
morning—
the bird’s song
in my voice
Haiku Canada Review, October 2007
the rose gold
glow of morning—
a seagull cries
morning mist—
taking the trees
one by one
the soft edge
of a blue-gray dawn—
being at home
boot and paw prints —
I’m not the first
to walk the new snow
half moon—
if I didn’t fill
the empty hours
Haiku Canada Review – volume 11 – October 2017
day’s end—
watching the wind
blow the sky to silver
lamplight spilling
through branches—
I walk on leaf shadow
light gathers
behind winter branches—
deep patterns of a life
Geo Wilcox
Lovely photos, thank you for sharing.
MagdaInBlack
I do love these. Thank you.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Beautiful–the pics and the poems both
Nelle
I find transitions from dark to light and light to dark mesmerizing. I’m often walking , even short distances, or by a window at dawn or twilight. You capture it well with image and word. I’m particularly drawn to the ones about leaf shadows and bare branches.
Kristine
Thanks for these.
DarbysMom
What a lovely start to the day! Thank you.
delphinium
Lovely photos and haikus! Thanks so much for sharing.
Old School
Very nice. Thanks.
raven
Do you know my friend who is co-owner of the The Metta Center in Bellingham?
Betsy
Very nice. Peaceful.
Miss Bianca
How lovely. Thank you!
CatRadio
Beautiful images. I will revisit this OTR often, I suspect.
cope
Lovely, evocative pictures and words to start my day. Thank you.
WaterGirl
Watching the wind blow the sky to silver is so beautiful that it brought tears to my eyes.
I love your haiku posts.
WaterGirl
@CatRadio: I’ll make a category called Haikus and assign it to all of munira’s haiku posts, so that will make it easy for all of us to visit them whenever we want.
munira
@raven: I don’t, but it looks like a lovely place.
munira
@Nelle: Thank you. I feel the same way about that time of day.
munira
@WaterGirl: Thank you, Watergirl. Maybe someone else will feel like posting some haiku. And thank you all for your lovely comments. It’s really a pleasure to share with you.
munira
@WaterGirl: Also I’d suggest politely, of course, that you call the category “haiku” not “haikus” since the plural is also “haiku” – which not a lot of people realize. (Just trying to out-pedant Amir.)
StringOnAStick
Such wonderful creativity, gorgeous words and photos that fit them so well.
stinger
So beautiful and harmonious, photos and haiku. Thank you!
I especially love “the rose gold” image and words, and how you captured both horizontal and vertical clouds in “the soft edge”.
And thank you, WaterGirl, for making these readily accessible.
Munira
@stinger: Thank you and yes, a big thanks to Watergirl for all the On The Road posts – and everything else you do for Balloon Juice.
arrieve
I walk on leaf shadow is a perfect line in a perfect haiku. Made my day.
munira
@arrieve: Thank you so much.
Chris T.
Bellingham is a good place for “twilight” pictures, what with our hours-long twilights…
Oh, and a question: is that a towhee? I’m not good at bird IDs.
Munira
@Chris T.: I think it’s a robin, but I’m not great at it either.
John S Green
Absolutely stunning haiga. Inspirational melding of haiku and photo. Thank you, Murina.
Sitara
Wow! Lovely photos and beautiful haiku. Thank you.