Category Archives: haiku

Dog-Rose [Haiku]

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lone Dog-rose bloom
 sways in a Spring breeze,
  lulling into trance.

Doghead Cloud [Haiku]

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Taken on the road between Cao Bang and the Pác Bó loop in Northern Vietnam.
doghead cloud
 pops up over the hill;
  as bike speeds along.

Wabi Sabi [Haiku]

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Mường Hoa Valley, Sa Pa, Vietnam; An old farmhouse on the rice terraces.
rustic farmhouse,
 weatherbeaten & askew:
   no answer to knocks.

Great Mormon [Haiku]

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Great Mormon Butterfly [Papilio Memnon]
Great Mormon
 flaps its wings spastically,
  yet hovers in place.

Farmer’s Walk [Haiku]

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Taken near Cat Cat Village (Cat Cat Ban) outside Sa Pa, Vietnam. Farmer on a fallow rice terrace.
hoe on shoulder,
 farmer saunters along
  a rice terrace.

Twilight River [Haiku]

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at twilight,
 the glassy river
  pretends stillness.

Dragonhead [Tanka]

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dragonhead
 rises up out of a cloud,
  over the city.
 how many see the cloud,
  but not the dragon?

Ripple Chaos [Haiku]

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raindrops ripple paddy water; 
 wavelets wrap into grain stalks.

Cascade [Haiku]

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after the rains,
 water cascades in ways
  never seen before.

Cloud Avalanche [Haiku]

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clouds fill the valley:
 a gauzy avalanche
  in slow motion.