Tag Archives: haiku

Nature Overwrites Culture [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in Agartala at Gedu Mia's Mosque.
saplings sprout
 from the ornate trim
  of a once-grand mosque.

Stoic Tears [Haiku]

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Photograph taken atop Kaurava Kunda Hill in Karnataka, India. 
buffeted by wind --
 hunched & leaning windward, 
  stoic tears roll.

Winter Marsh [Haiku]

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Photograph taken along the Big Creek Greenway in Alpharetta, Georgia.
light sparkles 
 on shallow water:
  winter marshland.

Winter Blossoms [Senryū]

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Photograph of pink blossoms in Winter. Taken from the Big Creek Greenway Trail in Alpharetta, GA in early February.
Winter plum blossoms
  try to trick mind and eye;
   cold fingers won't buy.

Spring Cascade [Haiku]

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Photograph of Shaki Waterfall in Armenia. Taken during the Spring.
Spring waterfall
 grows by the day as ice --
  somewhere -- shrinks.

Cherry Lovers [Senryū]

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Photograph of a Cherry Tree branch taken in Yerevan, Armenia. 
some love cherries;
 some, blossoms; some, Fall leaves.
  who loves trunk & branch?

Dine & Move [Haiku]

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A House Sparrow on a cobbled road near the Cascade Complex in Yerevan, Armenia.
sparrow finds food
 among well-trod cobbles,
  then flits into blur.

Gray Beard [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area, in bayou near Slidell, Louisiana.
Spanish Moss drapes
 over Winter's bare branches
  like a gray beard.

River Mind [Haiku]

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the river widens,
 slows / stopping, in places;
  so goes my mind.

Long Days Inside Short Days [Senryū]

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the grain is ripe. 
 the days are short.
  the farmer, weary.