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spring mist:
suspended over the lake
cotton balls
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spring mist:
suspended over the lake
cotton balls
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alarm bells disturb
haiku in progress —
burning sardines
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cherry blossom–
old cat smiles at the blackbird
eating her food
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at the traffic lights
selling mountain rose:
boy with arrow
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school —
the smell of new books
on my desk
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origami —
unfolding a poem
I fold a haiku
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lullaby
louder than drizzle —
tea leaf song
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geranium
red petals …
for nails
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exchange —
my laptop
for a butterfly
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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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