a Dark Evening Brown
flits about the woods on a
bright morning, Brown.
Dark Evening Brown [Senryū]
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Monkey Hot Tub? [Haiku]
macaques heard,
but not seen, amid the fog
of Winter hot springs.
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“I saw a man pursuing the horizon” by Stephen Crane [w/ Audio]
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never ---"
"You lie," he cried,
And ran on.
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Snowy Pass [Haiku]
the pass is snowy;
though low country types think it
the cusp of Summer.
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“The Clod and the Pebble” by William Blake [w/ Audio]
"Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair."
So sung a little Clod of Clay
Trodden with the cattle's feet,
But a Pebble of the brook
Warbled out these metres meet:
"Love seeketh only self to please,
To bind another to its delight,
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite."
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Willows [Haiku]
willows dangle
over flowing waters:
reaching not touching.
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“Long, too long America” by Walt Whitman [w/ Audio]
Long, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and prosperity only,
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing, grappling with direst fate and recoiling not,
And now to conceive and show to the world what your children en-masse really are,
(For who except myself has yet conceiv'd what your children en-masse really are?)
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Cow Camo [Senryū]
cow camouflage:
sitting in tall grass, stilly —
unsuccessful.
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“Fame is a Bee” (1788) by Emily Dickinson [w/ Audio]
Fame is a bee.
It has a song --
It has a sting --
Ah, too, it has a wing.
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Hive [Haiku]
the wasp hive:
its crescent entrances
see steady to & fro.
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