Category Archives: haiku

Winter View [Senryū]

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Photograph of a family of macaques on a wall at Gudibande Fort in Karnataka, India. 
with trees bare, one sees
 what Spring won't reveal:
  monkeys don't care.

Lying in Wildflowers [Haiku]

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Photograph taken near the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration in Tbilisi, Georgia.
lying down 
 amid wildflowers:
  city disappears.

Two Ways to Go [Haiku]

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highway parts landscape;
 butterflies jink and loiter
  as cars speed through.

Stony Ground [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in the Gobustan National Park outside Baku, Azerbaiian.
wildflowers bloom
 -- sheltered by boulders --
  on stony ground.

Daisy Waves [Haiku]

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Photographs of Ox-Eye Daisies taken in Baku, Azerbaijian.
ox-eye daisies
 ripple in the wind, or
  when tousled by hand.

Blossom Blush [Haiku]

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white blossom clusters —
 Cherry trees of Early Spring:
  some blooms blush, some not.

Long Live Bonsai [Senryū]

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Photograph of a bonsai tree taken on the grounds of a Hanoi Temple.
the bonsai tree
 isn't a BANZAI! tree,
  yet looks 10,000.

NOTE: “Bonsai” [盆栽] means “potted plant.” “Banzai” [万歳] means “10,000 years,” (in the manner of “long live the king.”)

A Sun Within [Haiku]

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Photograph of purple and yellow water lilies taken in Hanoi, Vietnam.
purple lilies
 open to reveal
  a Sun within.

Mountain Mist [Haiku]

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hot summer day,
 sitting downwind of cascade:
   misted by spatter.