a small pond on a
windy day emulates
undulating seas.
Pond Waves [Haiku]
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“Cicada’s Cry” by Matsuo Bashō [w/ Audio]
the stillness --
soaking into stones
cicada's cry
Translation from: Higginson, William J. 1985. The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku. Tokyo: Kodansha Int. p. 11
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Ancient Mountains [Haiku]
ancient mountain:
now a pile of worn boulders,
under monsoon clouds.
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Windswept [Haiku]
Reptilian Investigations [Haiku]
rock agama pops
over the boulder's top:
sniffs & scurries.
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Hot Nights [Haiku]
Summer sunset
over the sprawling sea:
blackness brings no cool.
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Survivors [Haiku]
with winter at hand,
the last crisp leaves yield
only to stout gales.
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Dark Slate Sea [Haiku]
dark slate seas
pound the rocky coast,
fringing it foam-white.
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Trails [Kyōka]
wildlife trail:
a subtle part in the grass;
human trail:
a bald and dusty line..., but
a buck 'd be hell on your rug, too!
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“The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants” (1350) by Emily Dickinson
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants --
At Evening, it is not
At Morning, in a Truffled Hut
It stop opon a Spot
As if it tarried always
And yet it's whole Career
Is shorter than a Snake's Delay --
And fleeter than a Tare --
'Tis Vegetation's Juggler --
The Germ of Alibi --
Doth like a Bubble antedate
And like a Bubble, hie --
I feel as if the Grass was pleased
To have it intermit --
This surreptitious Scion
Of Summer's circumspect.
Had Nature any supple Face
Or could she one contemn --
Had Nature an Apostate --
That Mushroom -- it is Him!
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