Category Archives: haiku

One Eye [Senryū]

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cat stares
 through one good eye,
  like a bond villain.

Pansy Patch [Haiku]

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pansy patch:
 rabbit noses out,
  sniffing air.

Fearful Flowers? [Senryū]

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stunted flowers:
 in fear of mower
  decapitation?

Perilous [Haiku]

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spider scurries
 across sands beside 
  lapping waters.

Be Water [Free Verse]

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The floating feather
   that eludes my grasp
      isn't haughty or gleeful.

It just rolls, slips, glides,
   and is gone.

Cobbles [Haiku]

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on the cobbles
 of an ancient city,
  sparrows peck.

Canopy [Haiku]

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rain tree canopy
 contains city’s secrets
  ‘til the leaf drop.

Still Life [Haiku]

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country road view:
 nothing bigger than a mouse
  is in motion.

Moth Flight [Haiku]

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moth falls off wall,
 pulls up erratically, &
  struggles for altitude.

The Big Drift [Haiku]

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downriver drift;
 ferries & fisherman cross
  without collision.