Category Archives: haiku

Patience [Haiku]

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perched egret
 clears a window in pond scum,
  and waits — statue-like!

Shophouse Row [Senryū]

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shophouse row
 infinity of portals:
  private, but not too...

Inside View [Senryū]

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snail stretches
 to view the beautiful house -
  too close to see.

Pigeon King [Haiku]

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pigeons mill about --
 then one finds color
  in the gray city.

Short Days [Haiku]

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winter afternoon:
 light drains away before
  the sun is down.

Mid-Winter [Haiku]

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mid-Winter
 pretends to be Autumn:
  green with leaf linger.

Ice-laden [Haiku]

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ice-laden trees:
 frigid limbs wish to dip,
  but are too stiff.

Bifurcated [Haiku]

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body in the temple yard;
 mind on distant mountains.

Yin / Yang [Haiku]

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shady side:
 sight of sunlit mountain 
  warms one's core.

Winter Afternoon [Haiku]

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sun dips behind
 buildings; early on a
  Winter afternoon.