Category Archives: haiku

Bats [Haiku]

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Bats at Bateshwar Temple Group, Morena, (near Gwalior,) Madhya Pradesh, India.
ancient temple:
 bats strafe ambulators;
  wing flaps puff on bare scalp.

Eddies in the Stream [Haiku]

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clear water glides
 over a rocky streambed:
  eddies form & fade.

Pond Level: Summer [Haiku]

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ring of sand
 around the pond:
  cooked down by Summer.

Calabash Time [Kyōka]

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bowl in the right
 calabash in the left:
  drunkard empties
 & then fills his cup --
 amid missing time.

Taillight Kitty [Haiku]

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two little kittens
 crawl the undercarriage 
  of a dump-truck.

Dog-Rose [Haiku]

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lone Dog-rose bloom
 sways in a Spring breeze,
  lulling into trance.

Doghead Cloud [Haiku]

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Taken on the road between Cao Bang and the Pác Bó loop in Northern Vietnam.
doghead cloud
 pops up over the hill;
  as bike speeds along.

Wabi Sabi [Haiku]

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Mường Hoa Valley, Sa Pa, Vietnam; An old farmhouse on the rice terraces.
rustic farmhouse,
 weatherbeaten & askew:
   no answer to knocks.

Great Mormon [Haiku]

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Great Mormon Butterfly [Papilio Memnon]
Great Mormon
 flaps its wings spastically,
  yet hovers in place.

Farmer’s Walk [Haiku]

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Taken near Cat Cat Village (Cat Cat Ban) outside Sa Pa, Vietnam. Farmer on a fallow rice terrace.
hoe on shoulder,
 farmer saunters along
  a rice terrace.