saffron-colored carp
mill about the garden pond.
a cat watches...
Garden Carp [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: fish
Koi Cluster [Haiku]
the koi cluster
at one end of the pond:
anticipating mana.
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Fish Drift [Free Verse]
With lazy mazy motion the fish slips through its watery world. With no apparent purpose but to trace out a route through dreamland.
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Drift & Dart [Haiku]
the fish drifts - barely: then, with a snap of its tail, it darts to the depths.
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Fish-Eye View [Common Meter]
Do I look blurry to a fish,
as if a floating cloud?
Does it expect I’ll dart away
as silence rings aloud?
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Low Pond Pathos [Haiku]
the pond 's drying up. the fish look sad, and I feel sad.
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Midday Fish Market [Haiku]
a fish market, broken down for the day -- yet, its scent still grows.
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Fish Drift Relativity [Haiku]
"the fish's world is always in drift," thinks I, from the bank.
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Ripples [Haiku]
with back to tree, i watch feeding fish ripple the mirrored pond.
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No Cry [Haiku in contrast to Matsuo Bashō’s experience]
back at the trailhead: no birds cry; no fish weep.
Riffing on Matsuo Bashō’s haiku:
"Departing spring! Birds crying; Tears in the eyes of fish."
