Winter Landscape [Haiku]

Winter Landscape; Sesshū Tōyō (1470)
snowy mountains
stand above a trickling stream,
too cold to drip

Gothic Church Ruins [Haiku]

Gothic Church Ruins; Carl Blechen (1826)
gothic cathedral:
vault crumbled, floors moss green;
nature reclaims

Winter Moonlight [Haiku]

At the Park Gate; John Atkinson Grimshaw (1878)
silver moonlight
glints off the mid-winter thaw --
shining coldly

After the Quake [Haiku]

post-quake scaffolds,
on the ancient temples,
teach impermanence

Lump of Color [Haiku]

drab winter forest.
all is in earth tones,
but one orange lump

“Anguish” [Haiku]

“Anguish” by August Friedrich Albrecht Schenck (1878)
mother bleats a cloud,
standing over its dead lamb --
ringed by a murder 

Lizard Look [Haiku]

a lizard slinks
up to the stone's edge,
turning an eye on me