Short Haikai Poems

haikai*



*Japanese 'witty' form of haiku(similar then to my footle genre)...

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waka,tanka,yugen
elegant poem-songs to pen

haiga,wenren,haiku
multi-talents to read or view

renga,haikai,haibun
light or long,poetry-prose can be fun

senryu,kigo kireji
the cutting word..is the key...

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cows... milked by first light
pasture... some moments respite
fresh mushrooms... breakfast

calf's... lambs... foals... goats kids
all milk dependent... from mom's
grateful the kittens

nature providing
sustenance nurturing life
no nurture... no milk
...

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Come
what do you
see
         take
one breath
               then
tell 
me
         or
           write
             it
down
use
        mainly
           nouns
intersperse
a
         thought-pause
easy
            for me
I
only
        speak
                  English
you
see!...

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the cinnabar moth
a summer diurnal one
check out the ragwort

peppermint stands
mint moths' abundant tiny
summer potatoes

a rambling rose
buds showing waiting to burst
a flowerfly drones

bees not many
some burrowers one or two
campion self-seeds

tis the morrow morn
west is the forecasted wind
southwest for the swifts...

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late spring arthropods
not as things should be
many absentees
-
swallows still absent
butterflies the odd one
today a wood brown
-
azure springtime sky
should be full of life... empty
no i'm going blind
-
house sparrows chirping
heard but cannot be seen
pond water warming
-
the common garden
spider A diadematus absent
could be it is late
...

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wild Australia
hark... sounds of didgeridoos
mobs of kangaroo

Australian folk...
Aboriginals suffer
arpartied still reigns...

Australian folk...
at one with nature... what's left
arpartied still reigns...

vistas of nature
o that monolith could talk
Australian woes

deforestation
all life suffers pollution
koala's left dead

crocodiles... wildlife
Australia's indigenous
extinctions for real

...

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dawn a flash of light
summer sun escaped the clouds
a blink in time

sparrows twittering
fledgelings begging to be fed
a watchful cat

warm westerly breeze
consolation for no sun
the warmth factor

summertime blinked
one-day last year a Monday
July the tenth

suntanned my body
fake news in a bottle
binned sunglasses

its summer time
no nature is lying
hush pretty baby

my apple tree
has yet to bloom and produce
summertime blues...

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