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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: March 2012
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Simply Haiku - Summer 2012

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Category: March 2012
  • Multiverses 1.1
  • Number Eight Wire - The Fourth New Zealand Haiku Anthology

morning prayer ...
an orchid absorbs
the sound of bees


 

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Category: March 2012

tree shadows
swollen with plums ...
summer's end

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star gazing ...
ancient light staggers
over the hill

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beauty pageant -
worshippers inflate
a living doll

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Category: March 2012

the silence
between hidden stars -
your words


 

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Category: March 2012

lonely street -
tonight she projects
two shadows

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Category: March 2012

famine relief ...
the viewing public
changes channel

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Category: March 2012

lenten fast ...
he sets his sights on
breaking yokes

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Category: March 2012

harvest moon ...
when the rain has spent
dawn returns

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Category: March 2012

bitter fruit -
never knowing how pears
tasted to you

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Category: March 2012

morning light ...
the heavens no longer
so vast

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Category: March 2012

lenten path ...
we separate the cross
from the crucified

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Category: March 2012

rising sun ...
dew drops tremble
into mist

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Category: March 2012

chilly stars ...
I savour the emptiness
of what is not yet

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Category: March 2012

starless night ...
I find my way
on my own

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Category: March 2012

reading Keat's
ode on melancholy ...
we burst a grape

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Category: March 2012
  • Failed Haiku 65

hints of war
another division
in the ranks


 

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Category: March 2012

murky pond ...
a child searches
for the moon

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Category: March 2012

icy sea ...
a poet carves icebergs
into haiku

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Category: March 2012

Dear John --
he squints between
the lines

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Category: March 2012

beyond
the big bang
a word

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Category: March 2012

she peels
away seven veils
one at a time

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Category: March 2012

the ache
of her beauty -
ah, that ankle!

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Category: March 2012

icy wind ...
the hidden agenda
of autumn

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Category: March 2012
  • Failed Haiku 65

behind
her 'nothing' 
nothing


 

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Category: March 2012

lune rousse ...
a mortician conceals
the face of death

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familiar strain ...
the echoes from his past
jerk the strings

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Category: March 2012

as if luck
is ever enough ...
hei-tiki

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sunday morning ...
water parts dreamily
for the blood

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Category: March 2012

raging moon -
the light shed by this craft
or sullen art

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Category: March 2012

wind change ...
are cicadas pausing
for effect?

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darkening days ...
a cicada sings
anyway

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waxing moon ...
the ocean laps against
her bikini line

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lenten path ...
a weather vane
points the way

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Category: March 2012

bread of life ...
light enters through
a wormhole

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shaping
the final act ...
autumn wind

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the silence
releases its sound ...
blazing sun


 

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a spider
ravelling moths ...
night sounds

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autumn dream ...
we retrace the path
of our lips

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Category: March 2012

night breeze
inside the sound ...
leaf turn

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after the fall
their images remain ...
fruit pickers

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the guidance
of back seat drivers ...
Job's comforters

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summer coda ...
the persistent rain
of cicadas

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Category: March 2012

autumn dusk ...
trees surrender
their presence

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harvest moon ...
it's reflection hidden
by my shadow

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Category: March 2012

twilight rain ...
not even the song
of blackbirds

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autumn dusk ...
dreams rustle through
withered reeds

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deserted beach ...
the unseen draws nearer
through the fog

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off shore breeze ...
my hearing follows
a godwit's cry

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the silence
of black swans gliding ...
autumn dusk

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final lap -
the baton passes
from the last

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Category: March 2012

harvest moon ...
a web appears
in silence

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grey skies
yet still cicadas
sing for death

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how much more
to be stripped away?
lenten fast

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joyous moths --
the song her light
awakens

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flight of fancy ...
freedom finds its voice
on paper

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summer coda ...
autumn appears
leaf by leaf

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cicadas
as if I too
will not die

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fallen night ...
the apparition of moths
weaving dreams

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morepork chant ...
I kiss the shadow
that bears my name

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autumn dusk ...
light meanders
homewards

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forking path ...
his pound of flesh
tips the scales

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at the heart
of autumn darkness ...
slouching dreams

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off balance ...
still the rose grieves
its petals

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sultry night ...
this delirium
of the flesh

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bread of life ...
primal light enters through
a wormhole

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Category: March 2012

another birthday ...
we listen to your haiku
in my voice tonight

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autumn dusk ...
an acorn parts
from its cup

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Category: March 2012

more chips
off the old block -
autumn hail

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autumn illness ...
between text messages
passing clouds

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last roses ...
my blood at home
in the blooms

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a blackbird's song
sinking deeper and deeper ...
autumn dusk

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pitch dark
a raven presses
home its point

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the fraudulence
of a night such as this ...
utter darkness

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tonight
a new moon
I cannot see

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visions
forming in the mist ...
words cast adrift

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the daisies
she chains together ...
moonless sky

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mountain stream ...
day's undercurrents
pulse in dreams

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life lessons ...
the distance between
dawn and dusk

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mapping
the lay of the land ...
blood test

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in a leaf
the end of time
lingers ...

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drunk
on haiku ...
blossoms

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a blush
of blossoms ...
first love

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autumn mist ...
the apparition
of ebbing dreams

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scribbled words -
all that remains
of spring

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