Jane Beal

Jane Beal, Ph.D., is a poet. Her haiku appear in the Asahi Haikuist, Fireflies’ Light, Frogpond, Haibun Today, Haiku Journal, Illinois Audubon Society Magazine and Presence as well as in her haiku micro-chaps from Origami Poems: Journey, Garden, Bliss, Wide Awake and Dreaming, and In the Santa Cruz Mountains. She is the author of many other poetry collections, including a book of haiku, Haiku Birding, and a book of haibun, Wild Birdsong (2011) and a book of haiga, Tidepools.

To learn more about her and her creative work, please see https://janebeal.wordpress.com

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► Jane's microchaps & selected poems are available below. Download the PDF by clicking the title. Set printer for 'landscape'. Folding instructions are under the Who We Are menu.

Origami Microchap
Wetlands
Click title to download microchap For my daughter, Czerinna - Cover design by JanK •	lapiz lazuli ... bluebird in the garden after the rain blades of grass covered with diamonds two rock doves on the concrete Causeway amethysts on a gray cloud	light on the water a sheet of gold leaf adorned with diamonds seven White-Faced Ibises – a special magic conjured in the wetlands westering sun in pink sand a shining pearl • Jane Beal © 2024
Wilderness
Click title to download microchap Cover collage by author · for my brother, Abraham, who passed away on October 29, 2021 and for my friend, Jean-Pierre, who helped me walk through a wilderness of grief jb	1 below the moon black crow flying over the wilderness 2 innocence is beautiful – it has its own shining light – all the dark moths come cluster around it like shadows, flickering 3 blow me out like a candle – the darkness is sweet when it touches my face, I feel ten thousand tears	4 into this silence, music – O Heaven, call me home I lay down my body to the sleep that steals the soul let me awaken in eternity, welcomed into the arms of the ones I love 5 I saw a butterfly in a rainbow flickering in the light – the monarch of the soul, still seeking milkweed for the journey 6 tiny bird, splashing! your reflection in the puddle splinters in light and air * Jane Beal © 2022
Songs of Water
Click title to download microchap Cover photo: Sunset over the Water by author •	1 on the path four water-droplets in a pale, green leaf 2 under tree, over stone goes a swift, solitary bird then, the singing 3 two lovers side by side sunset over the water	4 pink sky and purple clouds mountains brushed with gold 5 rain-water drips off the edges of a cactus leaf 6 after giving the baby a bath footprints of water on our wood floor • Jane Beal © 2021
In the Santa Cruz Mountains
Click title to download PDF microchap Cover photo by author • in honor of George Floyd, the Lightning Complex Fires, & my friends, John & Kim Haak	1 mist in the mountains a veil over the crown of the redwood tree 2 the pregnant doe lifts up her head when she hears our voices we can see the ocean covered in cloud from the Christmas tree farm the hind on the hill twin fawns leap up and away into the redwoods 3 a fawn screams outside my window four coyotes today the hind on the hill has one fawn no deer this morning only a lone coyote loping toward the road	4 a wind in the night rain falling in the mountains as the sun rises smoke pouring over the ridge the redwood trees disappear shafts of light through the redwood trees illuminate the smoke 5 in the green boughs of the young redwood tree purple sweet pea flowers a pale female finch visited by her lover suddenly flies off it’s been a week since I last climbed this hill the apples are bigger 6 patch of white sky through the redwood trees the roof of the world • Jane Beal © 2020
Wide Awake and Dreaming
Click title to download PDF microchap Cover design by author •	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 Jane Beal © 2020
Bliss
Click title to download PDF microchap Cover photo by Jane Beal - Leeds UK • For Jonathan	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 (Britain, 2019) · Jane Beal © 2019
Garden
Click title to download PDF microchap Cover photo by Jane Beal taken at Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens · for Michelle Lynn Smoler teacher, yogi, neighbor, sister, friend ·	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 · Jane Beal © 2019 inspired by the artwork of Robert Lang and Kevin Box in the exhibit at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Gardens Claremont, California April 2019*
Journey
Click title to download PDF microchap. Cover: China Camp in San Rafael, CA By author Journey is a series of 16 untitled haiku. - Every microchap may be downloaded for free from this website. (Set printer for landscape)	Angelenos drive slowly through the pouring rain no longer racing red-winged blackbirds sing together in Tejon Pass the rain stops falling red-breasted robin on the rooftop after rain singing to a friend	moon sets at sunrise in pale pink, purple, and blue as we walk and pray my grandmother’s heart is being opened today a new pacemaker pink blossoms sun light on green grass swaying in the wind snow-capped peaks greening mountainsides spring is near (jb) for Miguel you are the perfect lover for me • Jane Beal © 2019

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