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Come rise with me to unearth the instant light begins. Come away from this death that is its illusion. What deer panting for a hidden spring fails to find the moon's reflection? What seer blinded by visions hears the dawn chorus stirring and sees again?  What silent monk seeks the fire's warmth and becomes that which burns within the sunrise?
 
Watch! 
 
An oyster opens its mouth and conceives a pearl. Trees rise from their Lazarus shrouds of mist.  Prometheus and Maui paint the earth with Heraclitean fire once more. I am the wave that is the presence of the ocean. I am become death, the creator and destroyer of separation. In a breath I become what the Christ is.
 
dying wind — 
a dandelion now
just a stalk

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last supper —
from olive eyes
moonlight seeps 
 
 
garden snake —
a kiss by moonlight
betrays me
 
 
night trial —
words of blasphemy
twist my lips
 
 
crowing cock — 
all that I desire,
I deny 
 
 
last judgement —
death is delivered
with clean hands
 
 
bloody dawn —
derision tears me open
with words
 
 
bitter cup —
the shape of love
crushing dreams
 
 
empty cup —
a mushroom props up
a sagging bloom
 
 
day moon . . .
a girl's tears soak up
the mystery
 
 
cross purposes . . . 
between heaven and hell
love stretches out
 
 
sun strike — 
I turn inwards
to the light
 
 
broken circle —
hands that once were joined
joined without
 
 
emptiness —
love drains the cup's
last drops
 
 
death chamber —
even the echoes
fade away

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just for today
the blossom that was
never mine

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
2013 Haiku Invitational International Section - Sakura Award


 

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moonstruck —
a river wanders off
in the dark

 

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autumn rain
the colour splashing out
of her steps

 

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rehab farm —
unspent shells weather
into ploughshares

Johnny Baranski - August 2014 (War and Peace)

 

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silent tomb . . .
the husk of glory
rots within

 

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cold comfort —
a usurer warms himself
with moth balls

 

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priestly prayer . . .
a pedophile grooms
his millstone

 

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it is finished!
the charge of sap that drives
my birth to bloom

 

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dark night —
the seed of love
now spent

 

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dark night —
the word lacking flesh
enters silence

 

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before dawn
the awakening of words
from their silence

 

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milky way —
an eddy spirals
into itself

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milky way —
my helter skelter
of dreams

 

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milky way —
moths ascend the vortex
of candle-light

 

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song of summer —
a tone poem glides
through the words

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brushstrokes
of darkening summer . . .
shadows fold in

 

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milky way —
what brushstrokes to paint
the void, the stars?

 

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lenten rest . . .
an earth dweller reflects
on the moon