Category Archives: haiku

Worldly Concerns [Kyōka]

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Buddha's lap,
 a pigeon lands: 
  a monk shoos
 the bird away,
 but Buddha didn't mind.

River Drift [Haiku]

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shapes shift on
 metal waters until
  darkness wins.

Winter Rooster [Senryū]

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winter morn:
 rooster starts crowing 
  way too early.

Death Denied [Haiku]

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a dead tree
 swallowed by creepers
  greens from base up.

The Avian Unseen [Haiku]

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sunup:
 roosters crow, birds chirp -
  all unseen.

Flower Garden [Haiku]

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color clash
  in the flower garden
   attracts bees & me.

Winter Fields [Haiku]

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tawny grain stalks,
 unkempt, like mussed hair;
  a bird flies out.

Beautiful Menace [Haiku]

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bougainvillea
 spill over a wall:
  beautiful menace.

Sunfall [Haiku]

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mountain sunfall:
 vivid tree afore; painted
  backdrop behind.

Shapeshifter [Haiku]

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light & shadow play
 across the mountains —
  redrawing ridges.