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May 2007 Issue VII:2

Haiku/Senryu

Dietmar Tauchner

winter night
the secret life
in a lit house
    
  night wind
   the rhythm
      of the universe
  

  no more words
the rain
over the sea

 

marlene mountain

 
hemlock's hidden roots i feel for mine
stuck in the mud reeds full of spaces for nymphs and me
another thought i need washes out
  

 

Ian Daw

almost dark -
more space
between the hailstones

    
  inside her the heat fades from our clothes
  
    evening clouds -
Fenrir comes
for the sun

 

Glenn G. Coats

   
an iron man
the shadow of a flag
opens and closes
 
the Spanish guitar
a forest of ice
breaking

  
bird songs
under the shopping carts
freezing rain

    

 

Patrick Sweeney

black puddle
heart receives
the red maple leaf
    
 

new tea
even I'm
forgiven

  
 

 

 dried saffron
what I've taken
from the world

 

Susan Constable

    drought –
the snake coils
a rainbow
  silent night
my fingers find
all the right notes

  
dying embers
she changes from lace
to long johns

    

 

Ann K. Schwader

stiff breeze —
a forsythia's
forsythitude

    
 
sundial
the white hours
till spring
  
   
daylight savings
she wonders
what for

 

Peggy Willis Lyles

   
first snow
she says God
is a good man
 
maybe
maybe  not
     the seedlings thinned

  
blue butterflies
a knife without a handle
on the lichened stone
    

 

Paul Pfleuger, Jr.

Neon light
like a carpet
on Ghost Month waters
    
  The year I'd stay
becomes seven...
a grasshopper's landing

  
    Spring for me…
still asking much
of Mother

 

Kala Ramesh

 
running downhill
        I fall through
              the autumn sky
 

weathered field—
waiting for the buds to bloom
not by name

  

  this quiet lake
   allows me to break
           the clouds peak

    

 

Ashley Rodman

dark eye
towards Jupiter
stormy

    
breeze
blossom soft
on the leaf
  
    warm night
below the quilt
dark mushrooms

 

Philip Miller

 

the icicle ‘s last drip frozen    winter wind

 

 

insects hum
in one held chord—
autumn haze

  

biting off my words in time        distant thunder

  

 

Laryalee Fraser

another spring
same old creak
in the gate

    
 
grandchild's laugh
the accent of violets
on my tongue

  
   
birthday balloon
my knotted
breath

 

Victor Ortiz



  slot canyon
our few words
in deep shadow
  desert trail..
enough distance
between us

  
buffeted
by the desert wind
we plan our future		    

 

Fay Aoyagi

wind from the east
I ride the green horse
of a warrior deity

    
 
widdershins—
incantation to defrost
a butterfly
  
   
wintry woods
I follow the trail
of the Karamazov brothers

 

 

 

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