Category Archives: haiku

Two Faces of Spring [Haiku]

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Photograph of Small's Ragwort taken on Kaurava Kunda in Karnataka, India.
tiny flowers
 buffeted by wind
  & large raindrops

Mazu Temple [Senryū]

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Photograph of Tin Hua Temple in the Causeway Bay neighborhood of Hong Kong.
Temple of Mazu,
 patron goddess of sailors,
  locked up for typhoon.

Lean Street Kitty [Haiku]

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Photograph of a street kitten on the Sri Someshwara Swami Temple of Halasuru, Bangalore, India.
lean street kitten:
 face much older than its
  scrawny body.

Migratory Highway [Haiku]

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wild geese forage
 beside the highway:
  fueling for journey.

First Blossom [Haiku]

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petal flutters down
 from clustered Cherry Blossoms;
  is it the first?

Winter View [Senryū]

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Photograph of a family of macaques on a wall at Gudibande Fort in Karnataka, India. 
with trees bare, one sees
 what Spring won't reveal:
  monkeys don't care.

Lying in Wildflowers [Haiku]

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Photograph taken near the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration in Tbilisi, Georgia.
lying down 
 amid wildflowers:
  city disappears.

Two Ways to Go [Haiku]

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highway parts landscape;
 butterflies jink and loiter
  as cars speed through.

Stony Ground [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in the Gobustan National Park outside Baku, Azerbaiian.
wildflowers bloom
 -- sheltered by boulders --
  on stony ground.