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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2015
All Saints Day—
tonight my vision becomes
beatific
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2015
river fog
taniwhas all around
the feeling of me
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Category: November 2015
morning chant
the very earth moves
in a haka
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Category: November 2015
floating world
a fata morgana
cresting dawn
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Category: November 2015
twilight hush
my cosmological vision
awaiting stars
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Category: November 2015
All Souls Day
the combatants tally up
their losses
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Category: November 2015
All Souls Day
silence lingers long after
the loss of words
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Category: November 2015
November sojourn—
impermanence becoming
a medley of clouds
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Category: November 2015
word by word
breath-strokes mirroring
illusions of self
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Category: November 2015

spring afternoon flushed with aloneness

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Category: November 2015
in darkness
another cosmos
spills its guts
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Category: November 2015

a raven itself or my making of it

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Category: November 2015

mirror maze my lineage of names

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Category: November 2015
  • Failed Haiku 2
awake at dawn 
I touchscreen my timeline
into being
 
 
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Category: November 2015
charting stars
I learn once more
how to howl
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Category: November 2015

war against my better nature

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Category: November 2015

oiling the wheels of the tide

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Category: November 2015

mother martyr to the fecund dark

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Category: November 2015
friday thirteenth
terror remains captive
in human hearts
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Category: November 2015

left without another cheek to turn 

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Category: November 2015
come, O dogs of war
pave deserts and boulevards 
with our eyes and teeth
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Category: November 2015

retaliate a tale again retold

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Category: November 2015
swan wakes
foreshadowing
cross shadows
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Category: November 2015
rere tuatahi
ko aku kupu 
toku ohooho
 
first flight
my words are
my awakening
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Category: November 2015

long white cloud of self unknowing

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Category: November 2015
midnight tide
the tug 
of the moon
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Category: November 2015
as one
hearts of darkness
beating drums
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Category: November 2015
with this moon
forever is lost
in the moment
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Category: November 2015
ancestral grounds
playing fields of mist
with the dead
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Category: November 2015
musty diary
the you who now 
no one knows
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Category: November 2015
breath forget
slow infolding
night
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Category: November 2015
word by word
breadcrumbs
of no return
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Category: November 2015
wind-tossed tern
waiting in the wings
what is to come
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Category: November 2015

light lessens in half-lives

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Category: November 2015
facebook time
each day stretches 
into two
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Category: November 2015

ever a moebius strip tease

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Category: November 2015

iv drip from a klein bottle

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Category: November 2015
beyond
usury—
bird song
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Category: November 2015
moonlit street
here too
I am
other
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Category: November 2015
all the elms
leaf through once more
tales of loss
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Category: November 2015
midnight tide
the tug of the moon
on my eyeballs
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Category: November 2015
in darkness
the ebb and flow
of vision
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2015

without the moon through a window

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2015
  • sequences
Dawn Chorus
 
the end
of night
 
burred
in sound
 
bird
in song
 
burd-
en of words
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: November 2015
  • Shiki Monthly Kukai

the coolness of glass touching darkness

The Shiki Monthly Kukai - November 2015
First Place - free format theme (evening window)
The Haiku Foundation Per Diem Haiku - January 2019

 

 

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