Tag Archives: haiku

The Temple That Never Closes [Haiku]

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Photograph of the Taoist Temple / Cultural Center at Kaohsiung's Central Park. 
the streets are dark --
 even streetlamps rest -- but
  light spills from the temple.

Fogless Fog [Haiku]

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white blossoms 
 seen through still bare trees:
  looks like fog, sans fog.

Alone in the Cold [Haiku]

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solitary duck
 huddles with itself,
  against the cold.

Winter Springs [Haiku]

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Photograph of the Beitou hot springs outside of Taipei.
an eerie fog
 weaves through the trees:
  Winter hot springs.

Night Sun [Haiku]

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a full moon glows:
 its color, pale yellow —
  posing as the sun.

Where Trees End [Senryū]

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where the trees end,
 a colony grows in a
  cancerous fashion.

Shadowlands [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in the Toroko Gorge, Taiwan.
toward day's end,
 the shadowlands creep
  down the valley.

Trickling Creek [Haiku]

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creek that trickles
 through a stark winterscape —
  days from riverhood.

Hidden Spring [Haiku]

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Photograph of a bare branch and small cloud taken in Grant Park of Atlanta.
branches aren't budding,
 but shoots are sprouting 
  under dead leaves.

Orbit [Haiku]

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Photograph of two marble spheres in the Westside Park of Atlanta.
two bodies 
 orbiting each other:
  without distance, crash.