Tag Archives: haiku

Bird on a Wire [Haiku]

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Photograph taken in Lucknow, India.
a bird alights
 onto a windswept wire;
  then seems to doze.

Smoke Rise [Haiku]

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Photograph taken from a bridge over the Nam Song River in Vang Vieng, Laos. 
white smoke rises downriver:
  backdropped by black mountains.

Temple Bells [Haiku]

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Photograph of bells at Wat Don Mueang in northern Bangkok.
countless bells
 surround the temple --
  each one silent.

Enter the Haze [Haiku]

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Photograph taken near Luang Namtha, in Laos near the China border.
village breathes fresh air:
 the last before stalks are burned /
  the valley goes gray.

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?