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stepping on catfish
once again we sit
under open blooms
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Thanks to Gabi Greve for her link on the catfish quake deity.
Category Archives: Haiku
haiku #13 March 2011
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spring quake
ahead of a boat, a house
sails out to sea
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Reflecting the horrendous destruction of the quake, this also associates to the news about a survivor picked up 9 miles out in the sea from the floating roof of his house!
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haiku #11a March 2011
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white silk kimono
on the shrine floor sake
on cherry blossoms
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The horrendous violence of nature unfolding in Japan, and its effects on people and ‘things,’ made me wonder how words could reduce it to human scale; make it somehow comprehensible to me.
Haiku 11a was an attempt to reduce/freeze the violent, fulminant images I saw on TV to a simple, quiet one: a wedding at the shrine interrupted by the tsunami, the wedding sake spilled, the silk white kimono worn at weddings on the floor…
haiku #10 March 2011
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Zorro, open air —
dad cracks pumpkin seeds
with his teeth
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haiku #9a March 2011
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moon shadows —
you let too many petals
fall softly
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haiku #8 March 2011
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swallows
coat and gloves
sent to the attic
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This haiku was one of several picked by Vincent Hoarau to be featured in his blog La Calebasse, in a set of fantastic spring haiku he shared here.
haiku #7a March 2011
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hidden
gurgling down the rain pipe
a waterfall
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haiku #6 March 2011
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déjà vu
outside the city walls
daffodils
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haiku #5 March 2011
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conference room:
one way or another
we scale the fish
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haiku #4a March 2011
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churchyard yew —
smoke rings hover above
teens’ heads
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haiku #3 March 2011
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stranded on the mudflats
mother ewe with two lambs —
sound of rushing tide
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haiku #2 March 2011
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under the laptop keys
long after my cat died
her hair
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Also posted on Stella’s Stones
haiku #1 March 2011
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gazing
at the full moon I forgot
all about its hare
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haiku #28a NaHaiWriMo
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against the fence
a forgotten willow broom
buds
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haiku #28 NaHaiWriMo
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white dove!
you bring an olive branch
to my heart
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haiku #27 NaHaiWriMo
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over the school gates
marble owl —
twelve times table
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haiku #26 NaHaiWriMo
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growing up —
from my daughter’s room
the sound of bongos
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haiku #25 NaHaiWriMo
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vacant stare
through the bars
a lost world
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(echoes Rilke’s The Panther)
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haiku #24 NaHaiWriMo
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spring mist:
suspended over the lake
cotton balls
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haiku #23 NaHaiWriMo
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alarm bells disturb
haiku in progress —
burning sardines
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haiku #22a NaHaiWriMo
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cherry blossom–
old cat smiles at the blackbird
eating her food
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haiku #22 NaHaiWriMo
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at the traffic lights
selling mountain rose:
boy with arrow
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haiku #21a NaHaiWriMo
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school —
the smell of new books
on my desk
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haiku #21 NaHaiWriMo
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origami —
unfolding a poem
I fold a haiku
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haiku #20a NaHaiWriMo
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lullaby
louder than drizzle —
tea leaf song
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haiku #20 NaHaiWriMo
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geranium
red petals …
for nails
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haiku #19 NaHaiWriMo
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exchange —
my laptop
for a butterfly
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haiku #18 NaHaiWriMo
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have you thought
of your effect on us?
full moon
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I wrote this haiku trying to understand aspects of (by skirting close to) Issa’s poem, posted as an epigraph on the Red Dragonfly blog http://haikuproject.wordpress.com/
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haiku #17 NaHaiWriMo
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spring tides —
a full moon halo
for my walk
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haiku #16a NaHaiWriMo
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in the garden
a bush warbler serenades
plum tree blooms
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