birdbath grows from
fungus on a dead log;
flitting sparrow
is disappointed to find
no water remains within.
Disappointed Sparrow [Kyōka]
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Winter Marsh [Haiku]
Winter Blossoms [Senryū]
Winter plum blossoms
try to trick mind and eye;
cold fingers won't buy.
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Spring Cascade [Haiku]
Spring waterfall
grows by the day as ice --
somewhere -- shrinks.
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Cherry Lovers [Senryū]
some love cherries;
some, blossoms; some, Fall leaves.
who loves trunk & branch?
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Dine & Move [Haiku]
sparrow finds food
among well-trod cobbles,
then flits into blur.
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False Heralds [Tanka]
city landscapers
find year-round blooms for planters,
but I'll await
the wildflowers that grow
way up on the hillside.
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Martian Mindscape [Free Verse]
The light of day's end
brings out the sandy
grit of the arid
landscape.
The light of day's end
matches & compounds
the color of the
desiccated vegetation.
The light of day's end
turns the world
into someplace new --
somewhere I've never
been before.
My body knows this is
nothing like Mars;
my mind does not.
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Gray Beard [Haiku]
Spanish Moss drapes
over Winter's bare branches
like a gray beard.
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Stump Gator [Kyōka]
Gator rests on stump.
but my mind cannot rest.
it's not "gator"
and "stump" in the same place,
but in the same sentence.
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