Category Archives: haiku

Little Pebbles

Well worn path
split melon halves
a snail’s silver gleams
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Sunny afternoon
slanted rays winking
traffic hums
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Silver patterned clouds
float on charcoal velvet
light shines through the holes
_________

Door mat dreams
flying carpet
in the draught
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Street lights
tickle the moon
splashing in puddles
________

Words escape
moon doesn’t blink
in silence

________

Watching thoughts flow
across the surface of the moon
my feet are cold


Three Haiga Stones

through 
the glass
brightly

they left
wearing
monochrome red

night wind
fingers
drops of rain


Nodding in the Wind

Stamen’s sticky dust
a gentle dance of love
nodding in the soft wind

This goes with a video tempograph or moving photograph. It is a small stone from my garden I shot today of tiger lilies.

The video tempograph may be viewed here 


Small Potatoes

Waxing and waning
measured days passing between
illusions and dreams
________

Blue salvia
shivers
at the touch
of a hungry bee
sea breeze blows
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Scent of summer
promises of abundance
bees’ nectar dance

 


Seven Snippets

A spoonful of letters
seeped in a teapot
love pours out
_______

Love whispers
finger prints
of ease
_______

Kimonos waft past
pinhole lights
night’s silk unfurled
_______

Drum rolls
lights flash
rain enters
_______

Wind whistling
under the eaves
birds building
_______

Tangled cords
gather fur dustballs
static tumbleweed
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Tangerines
in the gloaming
a bat squeaks


Three Stones

Stone One

Stone Two

Stone Three


Fleeting Moments

Fading lace
remnants of glory
setting

~~~

Embossed gold
spine gleams
warm to touch

~~~

Mahogany chest
blushes deeply
caress of the sun

~~~

Lacy shadows
creep silently
along the wall

~~~

Sun flowers
caught on
a windscreen

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Palimpsest Fragments

I am your palimpsest
illuminated
dragons
holding
lightning rods
________

her body
his nectar
a palimpsest
traced
with love’s mark
_________

They wrote
sounds
of power
over and over
palimpsest prayers
_________

Scratched train window
screams
passing factories
photographic
palimpsests
________

Voices slide
cut betwixt
indentations
floating out
a palimpsest
________

Urban palimpsests
bulging
columns
graphics jostle
breathing space

________

A page flutters
voices
spinning webs
untold stories
oozing 
palimpsest

________

The pavement
beneath my feet
a palimpsest
of ghostly
footsteps

Palimpsest  Fragments series appears in The Poetry Tree, Edition 2
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Five Pebbles

In green half light
a stoic flourishes
soon to bloom
with a coy
pink blush

________

Outside my house
a flower of the sun
in my camera’s lens

_________

Spring wind
petals cling
to my moist cheeks
_________

Sense of place
distinctive features
invented spots
_________

Shadows building
Interiors for dreams
of permanence

_________


Titbits

Rain diamonds
sparkle
on her web
natures gesture
abundant
________

A misplaced key
he seeks
attention
________

Commedia mask
an ant
crawls out
________

Barks
rend the air
a spider
mends
her web
________

Sky sweats
fiery glow
birds huddle under eaves
________

Round raindrops
puddle
mercury and gold
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