Bill Waters ~~ Haiku
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Archive for the month “August, 2014”
The great blue heron
hip-deep
the great blue heron —
head poised
Posted to the Facebook poetry-writing group seize the poem, 8/15/14.
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The river of time
We were passing through Connecticut on our way to Massachusetts when there, off to the left, I saw the Housatonic. It looked broad and shallow, and the sun was glinting on its surface. Woods, gray-green in the middle distance, ran along the river’s farther side, and a narrow strip of rocky beach was visible.
Maybe it was the late-summer sunlight or a touch of river mist, but it wouldn’t have surprised me to see a Paugussett paddling a canoe and the light haze of cook fires on the far bank.
Housatonic!
Indians by the river
so long, long ago
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Issa: o snail
O snail,
Climb Mt. Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!
katatsumuri
soro soro nobore
fuji no yama
By Kobayashi Issa; R. H. Blyth, translator. Classical Japanese Database (http://carlsensei.com/classical/index.php/translation/view/168).
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They steal the scene!
they steal the scene!
miles and piles of clouds
above Haarlem
View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overeen, 17th century, Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia (bit.ly/1s6vtNi).
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Colorful haiku
cups of light
these bright red tulips
by the roadside
Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2014/08/colorful-haiku.html), 8/1/14.
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