Tag Archives: haiku

Farmer’s Walk [Haiku]

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Taken near Cat Cat Village (Cat Cat Ban) outside Sa Pa, Vietnam. Farmer on a fallow rice terrace.
hoe on shoulder,
 farmer saunters along
  a rice terrace.

Twilight River [Haiku]

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at twilight,
 the glassy river
  pretends stillness.

Ripple Chaos [Haiku]

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raindrops ripple paddy water; 
 wavelets wrap into grain stalks.

Cascade [Haiku]

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after the rains,
 water cascades in ways
  never seen before.

Cloud Avalanche [Haiku]

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clouds fill the valley:
 a gauzy avalanche
  in slow motion.

Sun Tinged [Haiku]

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mountain snow:
 tinged orange
  by sunrise.

Forfeit [Haiku]

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brown moth blends against bare earth,
 'til footfall tremor sends it lurching.

Mud [Haiku]

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Spring rain for days:
 grass is green & thick;
  the mud, soft & thin.

Hangers On [Haiku]

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trunk ringed by fallen blooms, 
only the pate contains hangers-on.

Bright Fringed [Haiku]

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bright-fringed clouds 
 with blackened bellies drift:
  summer day sundown.