Tag Archives: haiku

Slow Burn [Senryū]

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Photograph of an overgrown scale model of Dutch Square. The model is located on Bukit Cina (Chinese Hill.)
bedraggled buildings:
 nature digests what it eats
  ever so slowly.

Horizon [Haiku]

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Photograph taken from the coast near Melaka, Malaysia of ships on a distant horizon. 
ships at horizon
 look tiny between vast sea
  & endless sky.

Playful Thief [Kyōka]

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Photograph taken in Lucknow, India in the garden of the Mushir Zadi tomb. 
puppy guards 
 a stolen garment 
  it hopes owner
 will attempt to retrieve,
 so that play can ensue.

Stone Still [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in the Buddha Park outside Vientiane, Laos. 
stone Buddha:
 so still it gathers moss;
  I roll away.

Barbed Wire Highway [Senryū]

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Photograph of fire ants on a strand of barbed wire in the countryside near Vang Vieng, Laos.
fire ant highway
 on a barbed wire strand
  makes me itch.

Blue Sky [Haiku]

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Photograph of bare trees and blue sky taken on the Sawnee Mountain Trail in North Georgia, near Cumming. 
blue sky
 seen through bare limbs;
  when will Spring arrive?

The Long & the Short [Haiku]

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Photograph of stone carved figurines at the temple on Kaurava Kunda in Chikballapur, Karnataka, India. 
temple wall
 overgrown with weeds;
  idols kept pristine.

Two Faces of Spring [Haiku]

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Photograph of Small's Ragwort taken on Kaurava Kunda in Karnataka, India.
tiny flowers
 buffeted by wind
  & large raindrops

Mazu Temple [Senryū]

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Photograph of Tin Hua Temple in the Causeway Bay neighborhood of Hong Kong.
Temple of Mazu,
 patron goddess of sailors,
  locked up for typhoon.

Lean Street Kitty [Haiku]

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Photograph of a street kitten on the Sri Someshwara Swami Temple of Halasuru, Bangalore, India.
lean street kitten:
 face much older than its
  scrawny body.