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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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spring tides —
a full moon halo
for my walk
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in the garden
a bush warbler serenades
plum tree blooms
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too old now
to dance the sugar plum
fairy
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in my basket
a mud crab’s
oyster shell home
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spring evening
collecting nectar from
your lips
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hearing swallows sing
a blind woman
smiles
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good luck–
in my tea cup cloud hugging
full moon
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raining frogs
Basho
in the clouds
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old story
on my desk twelve pens
in search of haiku
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inkstone
the ebb and flow
of my Muse
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worlds’ edge
shoals of flying fish
by the lakeshore
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empty dollhouse
the cello in the corner
moans
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mirage
sun streaming through the curtain
lights up the oil lamp
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citrus grove
playing with the sun
scents the Aegean
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fresh baklava
I wish it were
a photograph
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found purse
birthday girl with doll
beaming
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meditation
in my cupped hands
a hummingbird
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daybreak
the taste of tangy sweet apple
on my tongue
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spring bulbs
the touch of mother’s hand
on my shoulder
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The River of Stones project, organized by Fiona Robyn and Kaspalita, has now come to an end. In January, for a whole month, people from all over the world wrote a ‘stone,’ a polished thought/moment of experience. I wrote and posted mine in this blog, on my twitter stream and on my separate tumblr blog Stella’s Stones. Now that January (2011) is over, you can find more of my very short work in Stella’s Stones: on the right hand side of the front page, just below my twitter feed. A big thank you to Fiona and Kaspalita!
February (2011) is also a special month. Michael Dylan Welch of Graceguts organizes the NaHaiWriMo challenging haiku poets and others to write a haiku a day for the month of February. Can you do it? Can I do it? I will certainly try. You can follow my haiku progress in Stella’s Stones.
For well-writen essays on Haiku and other genres click Graceguts
poem–
the old soup bowl
filled with cream
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Stella Pierides 