Haiku Poems
Whitecaps On The Bay
by Richard Wright
Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind.
The Old Pond
by Matsuo Basho
Following are several translations
of the 'Old Pond' poem, which may be
the most famous of all haiku:
Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto
- Basho
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Pink Cloud Fluff
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
so cotton candy
lovely and soft in the sky
one more day gone by
Basho's Death Poem
by Matsuo Basho
Sick on my journey,
only my dreams will wander
these desolate moors
Hitch Haiku
by Gary Snyder
They didn't hire him
so he ate his lunch alone:
the noon whistle
* * *
Cats shut down
deer thread through
men all eating lunch
* * *
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3 Liner: Bamboo Rice
by Pallab Chaudhury
Festive winter morning
First synchronous hissing sound
From bamboo-rice!
Dated: 14th Jan 2025.
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looking glass
by Rikske Kessner
does breaking mirrors
really alter my features?
looking glass-cripple
Sitting in the Sun
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
warmth floods over me
when blue flowers are climbing
sage red rose timing
sitting on the stairs
in sweet caress of warm winds
gold noon never ends
sitting among scents
under lemon chiffon clouds
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Sunshine Missed
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
flower of morning
diamond dew kissed, musk rose red
grape skies overhead
wistful in the mist
so long yearning for peach sun
green birds sing sudden
Pedantry
by Somali Mukherjee
The pedantic words
May seem to you too much wise,
But they're worth nothing.
