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- Category: October 2015
all black scrum—
the darkness within
in three lines
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- Category: October 2015
a mud crab
digging in deeper . . .
tidal shift
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- Category: October 2015
spring twilight—
prayer germinates
in silence
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- Category: October 2015
whisper breath—
I am who I am
candle flame
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- Category: October 2015
spring water—
I reflect within
the without
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- Category: October 2015
deepening dusk—
the devil escapes
the details
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- Category: October 2015
darkening words—
a frog croaks in the sound
of itself
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- Category: October 2015
a helicopter
crystallises into sound
from the blueness
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- Category: October 2015
rising light—
clouds effervesce along
day's plimsoll line
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- Category: October 2015
crescent moon
a smile of benevolence
goes awry
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- Category: October 2015
grey matter
on an intercept course
between seer and seen
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- Category: October 2015
after a spent day
words sink back into the slime
of their origin
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- Category: October 2015
the stillness
after the birth
unravelling star charts
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- Category: October 2015
All Soul's Day
the combatants tally up
their losses
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- Category: October 2015
cancer ward
nothing imagined now
is not the moon
in memory of H. Gene Murtha
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- Category: October 2015
fallow ground—
harrowing the hell
of being
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- Category: October 2015
twilight walk—
a pregnant girl praises me
for going barefoot
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- Category: October 2015
womb-dead words—
'mama' and 'tata'
missing still
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- Category: October 2015
on edge
fantails atwitter
stride the blast
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- Category: October 2015
waxing crescent—
the earth-borne fresh-faced
their song primal
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- Category: October 2015
midnight—
my lungs widen
with stars
THF Per Diem Archive
World of Haiku: Poets of New Zealand
World of Haiku: Poets of New Zealand
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
- Category: October 2015
earth stump—
shadows spiral down
its yesterdays
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- Category: October 2015
mass exodus
the sacrificial lamb
hidden away
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- Category: October 2015
stringing words
in a sing-song
of becoming
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
- Category: October 2015
distant spring—
a sixtieth candle
still unlit
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- Category: October 2015
by cloud light
a nuclear family
shadows the wall
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- Category: October 2015
rising or falling?
the intonation of all
these questions
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- Category: October 2015
peek-a-boo!
between her fingers
a war reddens
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
- Category: October 2015
remaking haiku
in creation's own image
and likeness
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
- Category: October 2015
in spring rain
the depth of reflection
that passes for me
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- Category: October 2015
in spring rain
the distance once so near
now so far
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- Category: October 2015
in spring rain
mockery of the drought
still to come
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- Category: October 2015
deep-sea moon—
labyrinthine is
the kingdom
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- Category: October 2015
spring kigo . . .
and I dotting 'i's
crossing 't's
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- Category: October 2015
in spring rain
scarlet runner beans
crack the surface
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- Category: October 2015
wing-flapping
over primal seas
heaven hound
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- Category: October 2015
climate change—
a tuatara through
its third eye
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- Category: October 2015
Spring
something moves with darkness fresh green
planting fruit of the earth human hands
remember man the dust in we sprang
in blossom born butterflies
nothing so near lushness of now
ground dark the end begin
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- Category: October 2015
earth-breaking seed—
an after-scent
of extinction
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- Category: October 2015
5 7 5 . . .
an ocean of sound
ebbs and flows
and ebbs once more
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- Category: October 2015
fallen night—
Adam peels the apple
of his eye
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- Category: October 2015
silent as a gun
sparrows twitter from the brim
of a scarecrow's hat
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- Category: October 2015
with wayward eyes
his won't stiffens
its resolve
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- Category: October 2015
a heartbroken suit
fills in the full flush
of its youth
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- Category: October 2015
stretching
in my imagination
the husk in her voice
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- Category: October 2015
haiku wars
staccato moments
litter the floor
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- Category: October 2015
in the produce aisle
a young mom applauds
my bare feet
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
- Category: October 2015
the stillness
after the birth
unravelling star charts
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- Written by: Stephen Bailey
- Category: October 2015
crescent moon
a smile of benevolence
goes awry