“A Few Haiku (30)”

On January 18, 2022 By Mike U.In Poetry42 Comments

(#175)

the burning earth
raging sea and starless sky
nature’s broken heart

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(#176)

the blowing snow
winter’s children play hopscotch
on frozen fields

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(#177)

nine thousand miles
and years of pain lie between
my heart and my soul

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(#178)

does she remember
in her tropical winter
my world of snow

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(#179)

drafts have stilled the hearth
killed the fire in my soul
endless winter night

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(#180)

ice in wash basin
fingers too frigid to wash
cold thoughts from my mind

“A Few Haiku (29)”

On January 15, 2022 By Mike U.In Poetry36 Comments

(#169)

my unsettled thoughts
blanket my winter world
in restless stasis

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(#170)

winter’s bitter dirge
prelude to spring’s soliloquy
hope waits in the wings

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(#171)

from womb to tomb
winter’s ever-present shroud
white cloak of despair

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(#172)

heaven’s secrets
whispered in the hiss of rain
on elm leaves

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(#173)

to those whose stories
go unheard by dearth of care
nature lends her ear

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(#174)

all hope is not lost
though harsh winter batters me
the golden suisen

“A Few Haiku (28)”

On January 13, 2022January 14, 2022 By Mike U.In Poetry33 Comments

(#163)

old apples
frozen to the ground
the silent orchard

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(#164)

juniper berries
blue sky’s children nestle
in cedar cradles

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(#165)

my horse is old
and my cart is broken
the depths of winter

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(#166)

winter granary
rice sacks are empty
and spring may never come

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(#167)

thoughtless chickadees
bear the winter’s burden
while I succumb

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(#168)

in the evening snow
hare tracks on the mountain path
silent, soon to fade

“A Few Haiku (27)”

On January 11, 2022 By Mike U.In Poetry40 Comments

(#157)

memories of her
drift on plains of sorrow
the driving snow

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(#158)

the withered forest
cruel winter shames the trees
into submission

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(#159)

the blush of winter
cold flirtatious wind kisses
my cheeks and nose

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(#160)

clear winter night
moon tends her silver garden
of star flowers

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(#161)

my personal winter
heart too deep in permafrost
for love’s healing thaw

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(#162)

cracks on pond ice
kintsugi heals frozen earth
as lotus slumber

“A Few Haiku (26)”

On January 8, 2022 By Mike U.In Poetry35 Comments

(#151)

drifting blizzard snow
not deep enough to inter
all the world’s sins

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(#152)

fallow field
without love and compassion
there can be no hope

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(#153)

the thresher’s flail
I am not yet able to
leave my past behind

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(#154)

iced boughs bend in shame
winter’s woe too bitter for
weeping willow’s tears

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(#155)

silent winter night
sound of my heart’s muffled cries
bereft of echoes

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(#156)

bitter reckoning
seeds of love in time shall meet
the harvester’s scythe

“A Few Haiku (25)”

On January 2, 2022 By Mike U.In Poetry28 Comments

(#145)

whispers of the dead
desiccated teasel stalks
haunt the winter field

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(#146)

fuyu no shika
scornful mountains echo
mournful stag’s lament

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(#147)

in the end
my heart gropes in darkness
on life’s lonely path

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(#148)

jade remembrance
the hitch in my chest
as my heart shatters

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(#149)

barren winter field
this heart of mine
bereft of yours

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(#150)

in silence in shadows
cold earth trembles beneath
blanket of regrets

“A Few Haiku (24)”

On December 29, 2021 By Mike U.In Poetry21 Comments

(#139)

snow in hut shadow
bitter heart
refuses to melt

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(#140)

abandoned nest
filled with drifted snow
sorrow incubates

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(#141)

frozen tracks
my past waits for me
up the road

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(#142)

frigid pond
thirsty fox waits in the woods
as I break the ice

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(#143)

chilly winter breaths
heron, kitsune and I
speak common tongue

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(#144)

no sun no moon
earth in funeral wrappings
all hope is lost

“A Few Haiku (23)”

On December 21, 2021 By Mike U.In Poetry19 Comments

(#133)

winter blizzard
mountain’s clouded mind confused
avalanche of thoughts

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(#134)

my life stains the page
complicated crimson kanji
too obscure to read

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(#135)

arctic kitsune
little blizzard stalks the drifts
crimson raicho plumes

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(#136)

darkest winter night
echoes of abandoned prayers
dwindle in the void

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(#137)

wind and sea and sky
permanence of change
impermanence of life

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(#138)

snow on footbridge
heron tracks the only sign
of life that matters

“A Few Haiku (22)”

On December 18, 2021 By Mike U.In Poetry10 Comments

(#127)

serrated sea shells
flay unfeeling fleeing feet
my numb soul bleeds out

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(#128)

bits of blue shell
and broken soul mark my fall
from heaven’s nest

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(#129)

old pond and ocean
renewed with each thunderstorm
my soul begs for rain

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(#130)

your name etched
on every cobblestone
this road leads nowhere

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(#131)

frost on suisen
sheen of wistful memories
melts too quickly

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(#132)

buds on barren twigs
kanji writ on sleeping trees
promise of the spring

“A Few Haiku (21)”

On December 17, 2021 By Mike U.In Poetry26 Comments

(#121)

old rain barrel
dark waters of
forgotten dreams

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(#122)

first snow
white kiku on
autumn’s casket

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(#123)

stone cairns
mark my future; stone heart
marks my past

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(#124)

no more songbirds
nest in my heart
your voice fades

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(#125)

old mountain’s silence
questions answered
as I climb the path

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(#126)

rain turns to hail
my heart takes a pounding
from my tears

Silent Pariah

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