with days of rain,
the lake overflows its bank
to carve a creek.
Flash Flood [Haiku]
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Yielding to the Flow [Free Verse]
A slender leaf
floats downstream.
Its tip touches
a stouter leaf,
sending the
slender leaf
spinning.
The leaf continues to
twist as it drifts,
Making it seem spastic,
but it neither rushes
nor dawdles.
It matches the flow,
letting gravity &
currents do all the work.
It races only when it
plunges through
a narrow channel,
But it downshifts just as
effortlessly as the
stream widens.
The leaf's action is
unforced, yielding to
energy imparted upon it.
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Lonely Egret [Haiku]
Stream Toll [Kyōka]
even a stream
charges a toll, and
thwarts cheaters.
step on stone: slip & fall;
sink calf deep: you may pass.
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Gravitational Exploitation [Haiku]
the stream carries sand,
dropping it in a broad pool,
clueless of its work.
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Heat Beating [Haiku]
sitting on a rock, feet dangling in the stream, thwarting summer heat.
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Unbudged [Haiku]
moss-covered limbs break the water's surface, unmoved by the flow.
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Decisions, Decisions… [Tanka]
the floating leaf
chooses its path around
the island
by not choosing a path
around the island.
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