in the mountains,
winter always looms nearby:
green hills, or not.
Winter’s Long Shadow [Haiku]
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Gloom [Haiku]
clouds advance in waves:
mighty army on the march
set on spreading gloom.
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Breeze-Free Beat [Tanka]
the eternal flame
lunges this way and that;
then -- for an instant --
it stands symmetrically:
only one breeze-free beat.
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“Snow-flakes” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [w/ Audio]
Out of the bosom of the Air,
Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken,
Over the woodlands brown and bare,
Over the harvest-fields forsaken,
Silent, and soft, and slow
Descends the snow.
Even as our cloudy fancies take
Suddenly shape in some divine expression,
Even as the troubled heart doth make
In the white countenance confession,
The troubled sky reveals
The grief it feels.
This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.
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Spider Hibiscus [Haiku]
spider hibiscus
dangles over the pond;
like an ornate lure.
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Kapok [Haiku]
Quiet Valley [Haiku]
a quiet valley,
sheltered from the world:
flowers rivet monks.
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Stony Ground [Haiku]
from stony ground,
a dense cluster of yellow
grows defiantly.
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Ancient Landscape [Tanka]
ancient landscape:
boulders, remnants of mountains,
are strewn about;
prehistoric tribes lived here,
and it looked the same for them.
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Stony Spires [Haiku]
fog retreats to
reveal stony spires
like ghostly soldiers.
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