Category Archives: haiku

Painted Stork [Haiku]

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a gangly stork
 moves swift as a dart
  through the sky.

Orange & Yellow [Haiku]

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blossoms
 in orange & yellow 
  compete for attention

Evening Brown #2 [Haiku]

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at dusk,
 the long-still Evening Brown
  flutters off.

Evening Brown [Haiku]

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this Evening Brown 
 is well-named; it’s sluggish 
  in the morning.

Red Dragonfly [Haiku]

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still red dragonfly:
 has the autumn gotten
  too cold for you?

Shy Flowers [Haiku]

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shy flowers
 of a cannonball tree:
  a guarded unveiling.

Witch & Skeleton [Free Verse / Senryū]

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Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre; Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1844)
PREMISE:
Princess Takiyasha
 summoned a skeleton to
  kill a samurai.

MORAL?:
"Don't bring swords
 to a giant skeleton-ghost 
  fight!"

CONCLUSION:
Yet, in settled dust,
 the world was less one
  Princess-witch.

Faun by Moonlight [Haiku]

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Faun by Moonlight (1900); Léon Spilliaert
what shenanigans
 goes on in milky moonlight,
  unseen by sleepers?

Summer Clouds [Haiku]

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thick summer clouds 
 look as dense as the woods
  they float over.

Vegetive Ambiguity [Haiku]

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barren trees say Fall,
 but the verdant undergrowth
  says Spring.