Dawn rain has washed the city of its dust;
The refreshed hotel willows tremble in a gust.
My friendly advice, you dry up another glass,
You have no acquaintance beyond The Jade Gate Pass.
“Jade Gate Pass” by Wang Wei [w/ Audio]
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Harbor Watch [Haiku]
a shrine watches
over a calm harbor as
storm winds buffet.
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Stumbling Urban [Haiku]
over a ridge,
and a sprawling city grows
into my wilderness.
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“Men Say They Know Many Things” by Henry David Thoreau [w/ Audio]
Men say they know many things;
But lo! they have taken wings, --
The arts and sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that any body knows.
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Last Dance [Haiku]
tattered butterfly
comes to rest after a
spastic last dance.
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Temple Bell [Haiku]
the temple bell clangs:
heard from a distance,
it does not fade.
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Rocky Outcrop [Tanka]
the rocky tip
of grass-coiffed outcrop
is all I see,
but the sound of a crow's "CAW!"
comes through loud & clear.
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“A Slumber did my Spirit Seal” by William Wordsworth [w/ Audio]
A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
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Evergreen? [Tanka]
"the trees are green!"
except when blue, white, or black:
in morning sun,
in peak sun, in moonlight,
under dense clouds, or no clouds.
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Monkey Insight [Kyōka]
langur in a tree
remains still as others flee;
it seems to know
my limitations as well as
its own capabilities.
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