yellow flowers face the four directions, as if true trumpets
Yellow Trumpet Vine [Haiku]
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Category Archives: haiku
Hawk Fight [Haiku]
hawk dogfight - the chased twists in midair, going talons up
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Condor [Haiku]
the condor soars above the canyon rim; its back glows gold
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Curious Dog [Haiku]
a sun-warmed dog, freshly fed & curious, readies to inspect
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Chinese Minotaur [Senryū]
The Temple Yard [Haibun]
At dusk, the temple yard is silent. A twiggy tree twists and leans, shading no one but seemingly stretching toward something unknown. Nothing can be heard, save the buzz of low-flying insects when they get too near. Then someone clangs the brass bell -- just one sharp snap of the bell tongue. But the tone hangs in the night air, piercing something unseen. temple yard at dusk, the silence is broken by the brass bell
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Night Sky [Haibun]
Flipping open the tent flap, I see a vast and glowing night sky. It's not the shabby patch of light points of my sky at home. Here, high in the mountains, far from any city, I can make out bands of color and dazzling webs of luminosity. And I can feel the tininess that past men must have felt, a diminished sense of importance that's hard to come by for a human standing on the Earth, where flags are planted everywhere and grand monuments to our pomposity are packed into dense clusters. mountain sky. the cloudless night glows infinite
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Gutter Chained [Kyōka]
chained to drain grate, a truckable truck averts a Russian nesting doll grand theft auto case
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Sourdough [Kyōka]
sourdough starter -- for those thinking of having a child, but who can't be trusted with a dog or a cat
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Autumn Color [Haiku]
cloudless skies; autumn crawls overland, swallowing green
Tiger Riding for Beginners 