Parallel Poems

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rising sun -
just a sneak preview
of tomorrow

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rock bound still
the liberator
of godly fire

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haloed moon ...
my shadow turns in
on itself

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venturing
from winter's dream -
a blue yawn

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open eyes ...
the revelation
of shadows

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empty path ...
first to be shed
are sandals

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stalling
under the ice -
spring bulbs

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a morepork
echoes its name ...
haloed moon

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overwhelmed
by indifferent stars ...
this embrace ours

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tear-filled eyes --
streaming overhead
star-filled night

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Failed Haiku 65

getting by
without articles
bare senryu

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windy day -
stretching the truth
across clouds

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moonless night
deepening streams
of gloom

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sepia moon ...
cuttlefish ripple
through dreams

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summer retreat ...
cicadas redefine
silence

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summer breeze
cicadas blur the bounds
of silence

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bumble bees
swoon from peonies -
valentine's day

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five seven five
the via negativa
of English haiku

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even
in this light ...
no more

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ash clouds ...
penitents turn
back home

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the faces
wincing in pain ...
also mine

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parting clouds ...
a godwit vanishes
from view

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the remains
of a godwit's flight ...
vapour trail

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a morepork's cry
attached to nothing ...
starless night

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rocks ooze
the lingering heat -
cicada chant

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a fantail flits
through dusk's antiphons -
shrove tuesday

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through the open door
of a tui's counterpoint
sound changes colour

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open door
a tui's counterpoint
changes colour

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her leitmotif
navigates the mists ...
hidden stream

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silent night -
white stones reflect
the unnamed

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the earth too
changes direction ...
lenten ash

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lenten ash ...
already leaves
start to turn

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lenten path ...
if the sun rises
it just rises

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rolling in -
the homeric laughter
of clouds

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night winds
shift the silence ...
crescent moon

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dark night ...

she proposes he take

a flying leap

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from

dimly amorous

desolate lamps play flatly

fiendishly, clean clear

to

power outage ...

moonlight sculpts with me

her curves

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I uproot a plant

and now my universe

is all upside down

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fading dreams ...

first light unzips

sky from sea

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some days

yellow just gets

in the way

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lingering war ...

she seals the letter

with x's

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new moon ...

she reflects light

unadorned

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flatulence ...

White Island too

lets off steam

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stepping out

from under ANZUS ...

acid rain

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rough weather ...

he sets his face

like flint

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the sandals

I dare not untie ...

lenten vigil

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a cicada

rattles in the web ...

autumn dusk

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kissing booth -

an ancient frog

jumps the queue

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sudden death ...

the moon overflows

shallow pools

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cicadas --

summer climaxes

in chorus

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when all else

fails to inspire --

nachos

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almost as if

it's Taranaki ...

Mount Fuji

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laundry day ...

a fool hanging out

with King Lear

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summer break -

everything but

the kitchen sink

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haiku prompt -

poets jamming many words

into less

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cloudless day ...

my single malt

without ice

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another

feather in her cap ...

shooting star

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can five months

still the echo

of your words?

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a poet

frames the moment -

butterfly

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beneath the wings

of a brooding dove -

the rising sun

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setting sun ...

a caged dog returns

to its vomit

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catfish love

spent now, stirring

murky light

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one godwit

misses the boat ...

chilly dawn

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omega ...

having bitten it

to the core