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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011
  • Simply Haiku - Autumn Winter 2011

the wording
of her epitaph ...
spring tendrils


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011
  • Simply Haiku - Autumn Winter 2011

spring tide ...
one godwit still
in flight


 

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Category: January 2011
  • Simply Haiku - Autumn Winter 2011

drowning
in the rites of death ...
autumn dreams


 

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Category: January 2011
  • Simply Haiku - Autumn Winter 2011

waning light -
the sea too flickers
with fire


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011
  • Simply Haiku - Autumn Winter 2011

southern cross ...
ancient dreams seep
through the gaps


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011
  • Simply Haiku - Autumn Winter 2011

making use
of the long drop ...
falling leaves

Simply Haiku - Autumn/Winter 2011
Haiku by New Zealand Poets, Past and Present - Selected by Sandra Simpson



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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

a pukeko
sounds out the depth
of night


 

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Category: January 2011

a bee
leaving itself
behind


 

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Category: January 2011

green fields -
the children of Tane
lie beneath


 

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Category: January 2011

cicadas ...
ancient ripples echo
among stones


 

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Category: January 2011

starry night -
my shadow hides
the earth


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Category: January 2011

hui tanguru...
a distant rumble now
the big bang


 

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Category: January 2011

night sky ...
its fullness empties
over me


 

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Category: January 2011

shrinking universe ...
hermit crabs assemble
in vacancy chains


 

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Category: January 2011

winter garden ...
the scent of a woman
awakens me


 

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Category: January 2011

kihikihi wawa ...
an acorn parts
from its cup


 

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Category: January 2011

summer shade ...
a cloud of birds
takes flight


 

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Category: January 2011

karakia
rising and falling ...
whaitere


 

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Category: January 2011

first light
for many a haiku ...
sticky note


 

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Category: January 2011

summer thirst
rain clouds settle
on my beer


 

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Category: January 2011

billowing colour ...
the swish of her dress
at dawn


 

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Category: January 2011

unfurling
within this stillness
summer clouds


 

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Category: January 2011

wedding cups ...
within each one
the other


 

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Category: January 2011

sixty-one summers ...
the stain of blackberries
his offering


 

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Category: January 2011

summer's end ...
juice of an elephant heart
drips from her lips


 

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Category: January 2011

cricket season -
pale apparitions
in the sun


 

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Category: January 2011

cicadas
grind away the silence ...
ripples on the pond


 

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Category: January 2011

tidal debris --
the ebb and flow
of words


 

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Category: January 2011

bowing down
an agapanthus bloom ...
summer fullness


 

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Category: January 2011

ancient tree ...
within the shadows
an apple rots


 

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Category: January 2011

rock pool ...
the old man waits
on his own


 

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Category: January 2011

Waitangi Day ...
kauris grow past oaks
in silence


 

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Category: January 2011

summer heat -
active directory
on a break


 

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Category: January 2011

summer garden ...
my nose wrinkles
in the pond


 

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Category: January 2011

cicada
your ascent into song
all one imagines


 

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Category: January 2011

hui tanguru
surf laps my midriff
beyond my return


 

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Category: January 2011

boiling mud ...
even rocks may be
renewed


 

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Category: January 2011

blemished moon
shining on the wrinkles
of the sea


 

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Category: January 2011

the high price
of a cicada's silence -
summer sale


 

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Category: January 2011

overkill -
possum introductions
to a virgin land


 

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Category: January 2011

cicada chorus -
summer overflows
with sounds of praise


 

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Category: January 2011

bikini girls ...
so many butterflies
pressed into skin


 

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Category: January 2011

summer romance
going up in flames -
paper roses


 

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Category: January 2011

Ruaumoko -
an unborn child kicks
against shadows


 

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Category: January 2011

serval, otter,
buffalo and emu -
summer rain


 

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Category: January 2011

autumn shelter -
a morepork's call leads me
into the night


 

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Category: January 2011

twilight -
a stream cascades
from view


 

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Category: January 2011

autumn dawn ...
asian paper wasps swarm
over haiku


 

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Category: January 2011

haigha
through the looking glass -
march hare


 

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Category: January 2011

autumn horizon
hine-nui-te-po waits
gathering clouds


 

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Category: January 2011

ripening winds ...
the bloom of summer
scatters to earth


 

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Category: January 2011

drinking
from my reflection -
lenten fast


 

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Category: January 2011

autumn shadows -
within my footprints
a robin's meal


 

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Category: January 2011

fantasia ...
distant strains now
an apocalypse


 

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Category: January 2011

summer coda ...
a single cicada
droning


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

breaking dawn -
the newspaper
lies unread


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

bare rooftop -
a blackbird proclaims
its secret


 

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Category: January 2011

dusky sound -
all that remains
of the day


 

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Category: January 2011

bleak winter -
yet light breaks through
from darkness


 

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Category: January 2011

pilgrim friend
fading into mist -
then her song


 

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Category: January 2011

her passing -
shadow into light,
then out


 

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Category: January 2011

the burden
of winter sun ...
snow drops


 

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Category: January 2011

melting
within my hand -
your presence


 

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Category: January 2011

thawing snow ...
the urge to be useful
drop by drop


 

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Category: January 2011

river fog
sculpting dreamscapes
from clay


 

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Category: January 2011

the spring
now in his step ...
her smile


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

godwit in flight ...
winter dreams linger
in her wings


 

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Category: January 2011

leapfrogging
over puddles ...
sound of rain


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011
  • Simply Haiku - Autumn Winter 2011

while she turns
to view the moon ...
lapping waves


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

spring moonrise ...
tonight the rooftops
are mountains


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

without words ...
lighting one more candle
against the night


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

autumn sea ...
leaving my boat
behind


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

riverrun
past Eve and Adam's ...
even words fail


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

cradling
her frame of reference ...
misty vigil


 

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2011

this chill
I cannot name ...
draining light


 

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Category: January 2011

even ducks
interpenetrating ...
last snow


 

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Category: January 2011

the back roads
vanishing from view ...
winter stars


 

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