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Old World (public) => Poems => Topic started by: Nichi on October 29, 2010, 12:54:00 PM

Title: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on October 29, 2010, 12:54:00 PM

to fully explore
     a rustic rose
          the frantic bee disappears


Gabriel Rosenstock

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on October 29, 2010, 01:08:27 PM

Buddha grants me
a few more days
I do the washing


Ozaki Hosai

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on October 29, 2010, 01:11:22 PM

Where there are humans
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.

~Kobayashi Issa

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on October 29, 2010, 01:12:54 PM

Nothing in the cry
    of cicadas suggests they
are about to die
 

~Basho

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on October 29, 2010, 01:16:00 PM

barn's burnt down;
now I can see
the moon

~ Masahide

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on October 29, 2010, 01:19:17 PM

All the time I pray to Buddha
I keep on
killing mosquitoes


~Kobayashi Issa

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on October 29, 2010, 01:21:43 PM

forgiving each other
with only a look --
wisteria in the rain

~Mitsu Suzuki

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mayflow on November 26, 2010, 12:30:31 PM

A mind that finds freedom
is at home
wherever it ventures or roams

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Michael on November 29, 2010, 05:47:06 AM

A mind that finds freedom
is at home
where ducks dream

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mayflow on December 02, 2010, 12:53:05 AM

Dreams mix with perceptions
Perceptions are playgames
The mind is the mind
whether duck or man
but ducks can't rhyme

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Michael on December 07, 2010, 07:07:52 PM

Haiku's don't rhyme
but they do like an unexpected twist in the last line
and a 'cutting' word

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on December 08, 2010, 06:00:27 PM

The world of dew
 is the world of dew,
 And yet, and yet –


~Kobayashi Issa~

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on December 08, 2010, 06:07:25 PM

Crow's
abandoned nest,
a plum tree.


Matsuo Basho

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on December 08, 2010, 06:11:50 PM

writing its story
     on the strand --
          a severed branch


~Gabriel Rosenstock

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on December 08, 2010, 06:17:49 PM

necklace of bone …
ants have finished
with the snake

~Margaret Manson 

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mayflow on December 10, 2010, 06:33:52 PM

A time to be here
a time to roam ev'rywhere
The River still flows

~Mayflow~

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on December 18, 2010, 04:05:28 PM

nothing
   she doesn’t know –
      the cat on the stove
   
~Fusei

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on December 18, 2010, 04:30:57 PM

From self-infatuation to selflessness …

One is grossly visible in the world – to the world and to oneself – when one suffers from self-infatuation, self-engrossment, self-importance. Haiku is a streaming into the light in which self-infatuation cannot exist. The pure and purifying action of the haiku moment causes us to dissolve into another dimension. And who or what are we then? Creatures of light. Nothing more. Nothing less. And though we may return to the chiaroscuro of life, we are changed. We have, briefly, known our brilliant nature. The self has been sloughed and only Self remains.

Gabriel Rosenstock
Disappearing

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: Nichi on December 18, 2010, 04:49:34 PM

concealing his tail
            among heads of barley
               old fox
                  
~Tesshi



From Disappearing
Gabriel Rosenstock

Title: Re: Haiku
Post by: mayflow on January 18, 2011, 08:38:44 AM

To Love a little

is to Love forevermore

Love knows not of time