HAIKU POEMS 1972-2025
the fireflies i caught
lit the eve in yellow jars
and kept the sunset
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the sun kisses
and smears the morning sky
a passionate red
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aspen leaves floating
down a mountain creek wash
in a miner's pan
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heaped together
american bison graze
the black hills
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no longer soulless
blackbirds nest in the straw
of a scarecrow's head
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ants climbing crawling
a sunflower inch their way
to the gaint's castle
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me jungle spider
reeling on gossamer vines
tarzen by cobwebs
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the wind whispered
and grains of wheat waved
as a combine whisked by
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blackbirds have flown
leaving the strands of barbed wire
that once held them
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stars in the window
sprinkled across a winter sky
frost the panes tonight
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i saw red
when ants crawled
along the watermelon
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we scramble to a pond
to watch golden carp
fight over bread crumbs
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a misty valley
steeped in green tea
steams from my cup
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caught in batik
the fisherman's haul
netted from the sea
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masjid an-nur
glistens in afternoon sunglow
and the azan radiates
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red hibiscus blossoms
dangle amid a japanese garden
full of paper lanterns
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flame-of-the-forest
blossoms carpet the ground
in firecracker red
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a bonsai tree
sits in a dockside window
overlooking the yard arms
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blue and cloudy.
i've tried to read between the lines.
why skywrite with invisible ink?
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clouds, trees and lotus
awash in watercolours --
taiping lake garden
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monarch butterflies
aflutter in a field of milkweed
on black-orange-white wings
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morning mists float
cattails quiver on a breeze
monastery matins linger
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fireworks at midnight
paint a charcoal sky in bursts
of noisy colours
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tall and mighty trees
bare-boughed skeletons
stand still in the night
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reflections of koi
caught between heaven and earth
swimming...flying
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the moon cannot hide
its pale glow shines from afar
peeking through clouds and trees
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