Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Haiku

HAIKU POEMS 1972-2025


the fireflies i caught

lit the eve in yellow jars

and kept the sunset


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floating embers glow
in a firefly fandango 
they sparkle through the night

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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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lantern-lit fishing boats
float on the south china sea
under a starry horizon

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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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