desiccated stalks
jut from standing water:
drowned dry.
Drowned Dry [Haiku]
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“A Glimpse” by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]
A glimpse through an interstice caught,
Of a crowd of workmen and drivers in a bar-
room around the stove late of a winter night,
and I unremark'd seated in a corner,
Of a youth who loves me and whom I love,
silently approaching and seating himself near,
that he may hold me by the hand,
A long while amid the noises of coming and
going, of drinking and oath and smutty jest,
There we two, content, happy in being together,
speaking little, perhaps not a word.
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The Gray [Haiku]
on a hilltop,
neighboring hill in clouds:
its dwellers in gray.
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Pond Waves [Haiku]
“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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“One’s-Self I Sing” by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]
One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person,
Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-masse.
Of physiology from top to toe I sing,
Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is
worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete
is worthier far,
The Female equally with the Male I sing.
Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws
divine,
The Modern Man I sing.
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