Art for Art's Sake; or, Art for the Sake of Sake (a Japanese alcoholic beverage of fermented rice often served hot)

haiku: an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables respectively; also: a poem in this form usually having a seasonal reference

(http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/haiku)

Now and then I get the urge to write some of these. Tonight it's too late to get into the post I intended to write, so here are a couple of haiku, just for fun:

1.
Mist leaves the mountains—
Hawks circle in bluing sky—
Rising, rising up.

2.
Morning in Hot Springs—
Gray mist ghosts the mountainsides,
Hawks circle towards light.

3.
A bronze quarter moon
west of dazzling stage lights sets
while the band plays on.

The first two come from a September morning in Hot Springs, North Carolina, where about three years ago Leesa and I spent our anniversary at a wonderful bed and breakfast. The third is an image from an August evening two years ago. We sat with friends on the South Terrace of Asheville's Biltmore House and experienced a wonderful concert by Bruce Hornsby and his band (www.brucehornsby.com).

That's enough for now.