All haiku senryu are copyright Jonathan Robin. Where quoting kindly reproduce source attribution
Provisional list 27 January 2008 N.B. versions extant 2008 subject to revisions currently unincorporated into list
A Beam of Light
As intuition
sweetens, sweeps senses, doors open
onto fruition.
Bursting bright, baring
intimate enlightenment
links souls insight sharing.
Light weaving laughter
assuages inhibitions -
superfluous hereafter.
Sounds of soft music
reflect starry skies' surprise,
bring belonging magic.
Ecstasy appears
to overwhelm misfortune,
love banishing fears.
Eternally, bliss
personnified, naught denied: -
Song of Songs is this.
14 June 1991 and 20 June 2007
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A-Musing
Mooning on spooning
she tosses and turns, returns
ballooning dream tuning
24 October 2006
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A Door Opens
As a door opens,
sun kisses carpet: - light sheet
opens pristine page.
2 November 1990 and 19 September 2006
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Acceleration
Acceleration
of knowledge acquisition -
destabilisation...
4 March 2002
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Acceptance
Acceptance chants dance
elegance finds ulti_mate_
umb...rage checks advance
Author notes
chance chants
ultimatum rage or ultimate umbrage
27 January 2008
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Aims
From ground to [g]round holes -
missives or missiles unite
solitary souls
Buts
Sol à sol, mystère, -
missives ou missiles relient
les âmes solitaires...
20 March 1992
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Alienation of Affections
December letters:
no response greets the New Year,
but embers' fetters.
10 January 1993
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All at Sea MISSING
The stockmarket quote
10 July 1992
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All in All
Yin, Yang, undermine
difference to recombine -
all in all define
4 April 2005
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Amber Butterfly
Amber butterfly:
what may multi mottled marks
sing, sign, signify?
Upon insect's back
is this camouflage warning,
defence or attack?
An amber butterfly is winging by:
its mottled marks, what may they signify?
The camouflage upon the insect's back
is warning, or defence against attack...
23 March 1975
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Anomalies
Through bursting buds peep
summer's blooms - to their beauty
stays sad slave asleep.
Through bursting buds there summer blooms, fair, peep,
but to their beauty stays sad slave asleep.
23 March 1975
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Apple Blossoms
Apple blossoms, seen through April snow,
Approaching scenes of summer seem to know.
Apple blossom, snow, -
approaching scenes of summer
April seems to know.
23 March 1975
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At Rest
Through expanding space
beyond old inhibitions
the mind may e[r]ase
artificial skins.
As spirit dissolves levels,
inner freedom wins,
consciousness, can chase
surface metamorphosis -
sh[r]edded to replace
superficial grins,
self-deception - whose dark hells
are the greatest sins.
When understanding
maturity underpins,
then momentum spins
through both thick and thin,
talent touches base with place
as feelings akin
to acceptance win
acceptance without need to [t]race
extension within
inner harmony, begins
accepting both what potential spells
and inner shortcomings.
there mind may find rest
empathy, serenity,
all is for the best
21 July 2004
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Atlantis
D[r]ipping dolphin guides
to subterranean trench
where Atlantis hides
Imbedded within
the cetacean memory,
Atlantean sin
Atlantis within
Man's secret pilgrim soul
surfaces, clocks in
29 January 1993
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Attollent, from the Air
An atoll is it, that I see,
or a cloud
being born by the sea?
12 April 1981
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Au Secours!
‘Love me! ' loud she cried.
None replied. 'Then, at the least,
notice me! ' she sighed.
10 January 1993
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Aureate
A gentle aura
corresponds to warmth within
not facial flora
24 October 2006
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Avant l'Envol
Avant leur envol,
les ailes iridisées brillent
d'espoir qui s'affole.
Before their first [f]light
irridescent wings will shine
with hopes set affright
1 January 1992
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Beacon Beckon
Old greenfingers sow
a garden's pregnant promise
which others must know.
26 July 2006
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Beneath Willow-maze
Beneath willow maze,
body beached from life's sad stream,
sleeps my spectral haze...
5 June 2005
Spectra Parody Witter BYNNER
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B[l]ackground
Dissatisfaction, -
displease, unease, freeze, - frieze for
fatal attraction...
9 April 2005
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Becoming
Fast, tense Past's pretence
Present presence overcomes …
Future recompense
12 April 2005
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Background Impressions
Backgrounds important
messages transmit, beyond sight
to readers distant...
12 April 2005
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Beyond Beyond
Witch brown eyes unlatched,
beauty unmatched, also come
with no [st]rings attached
Ruby lips respond
to em'rald eyes' - twinned surprise
dreams beyond beyond...
9 January 2007
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Body Language
Body language loud
translates inner silences, -
unique in the crowd.
13 March 2005
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Bridge Building
Rhyme's self-destructive
when words become instruments
for minds constrictive…
becomes addictive
when sight and sound, soul and sense
build bridge constructive.
Critic's injunctive,
vindictive, vanity finds
verse unpredictive,
‘right rules' restrictive
recommends - write mind's [g]rind's
prose unproductive.
12 June 1996, significantly revised 1 November 2006
Bush I
Twelve years at the top:
Burnt out Bush comes a cropper,
reaping his [s]own crop.
10 January 1993
Bush II
Four years seen from top,
vice between I rack, I ran -
one fears freedoms drop!
20 June 2004 see 1108 Bush
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Call Back Recall
'Call later, ring back! ' -
one day, may his own turn come
when Fate aims sting black
Rappel à l'Ordre
« Rappelle plus tard! »
Plus tard viendra son tour
de sentir ce dard!
14 January 1993
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Candyfloss
Candyfloss spun round
the stick of Life is sticky
with sweetness unsound.
22 September 1995
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Caught in the tank ah!
Siren, sought, solo
scans bond links thinks, winks, shows kinks … - Halt, fears!
Wrong song, see sharp shark!
man blond shrinks, sinks, drinks salt tears
sigh rends caught soul, oh!
24 March 2005 and 6 November 2006
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Cause and Effect
On effect and cause,
on voiced choice or chosen voice,
few ponder, all pause.
On cause and effect,
on scene set or foreseen,
must Mankind project...
4 March 2002
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Change
Change is a whirlpool, -
Earth and sky hurricane eye
Sigh clones to world fool.
10 October 1995
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Chestnuts
Browned chestnuts roasting,
present wraps reflect past fire, -
downed champagne toasting.
22 December 1994
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Childsplay
Swings and roundabouts
of Fate or coincidence
wing dreams, wring ring doubts
24 October 2006
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China
When western greed shakes
a billion impatient heirs,
the dragon awakes.
13 January 1993
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Chirp
Sweeping storm frightens
foetal petal waiting sun, -
Sparrow's chirp brightens...
12 April 2005
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Choice
Opportunities freeze
or accept emotions which
twinned energy frees….
4 March 2002
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Choice at Sea
When choice is at sea
chance weathers loose washers, waves
skim[p] apology.
20 January 1997
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Chronos
Will roses still bloom
when tomorrow sighs no more
over today's tomb...
4 March 2002
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Clair de Lune
Clair de lune: éclair
chassant chaque amertume
dans l'air, … mystères.
5 November 2006
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Climactic Paradigm Change
New revolution:
paradigm shifts spin old top
to fresh confusion.
Stage in evolution:
polar bears, pandas bamboozled,
mortal pollution.
Self execution
by men of Man or preplanned
novel solution?
9 January 2007
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Coatless
Now Spring's storms start, end,
without wearing Winter's coat, -
how winds warm heart mend.
Sans Manteau
Le Printemps arrive
sans le manteau de l'hiver: -
mon coeur se dégivre.
10 January 1993
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Cocktail Tales
Silk, satin, laces,
hark lark, perks! smirks lurk on jerks'
X rated faces.
14 April 2005
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Coda
The recorded word
uttered at the close of play
is coda absurd.
10 January 1993
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Cogito - Lost for Words
I do not know "why"
nor "how or where, what or when", -
wonder … who am I?
17 April 2005
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Cold Comfort
A cheery log fire
affords cold comfort to an
abandoned desire.
10 January 1993
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Compromise
In a round about
way most avoid life's challenge: -
hope peters out.
4 March 2002
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ConCATenation
Curled on curlicue
A split hair haiku can purr,
Trapping mice on cue
12 April 2005
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Concentration
Sound waves round rippling
concentric concentration
reigns drops drip trickling
26 January 2007
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Consensus
Consensus: the knife
with which complacency
cuts protesting life.
14 January 1993
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Continuity
Continuity
spirals itself into knots, -
timed fatuity.
10 January 1993
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Crystal Lid
Verse: a crys[t]al - id,
halfway-house between
[p]rose-leaf caterpillar
and the Song of Songs
13 January 1993
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Curiosity
Curiosity ~
without which no cat could see
true way clear to be.
17 March 2005
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Cusp
Tears told? Tomorrow:
cusp between past dust, joy's gold
may mend all sorrow...
1 April 2005
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Dating Sights
Face to face meetings
offer more understanding
than online greetings.
4 March 2002
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Dearly Departed
Separate bedrooms
speak volumes, in silent grief
over old loves' tombs
13 January 1993
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Definition
Three vodkas then wine
Upon an empty stomach: -
Define a straight line!
22 September 1995
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Dépeches
La peche à l'écume
stimule une expérience
qui l'esprit rallume
La peche à l'écume
est indecente descente
sous vent qui enrhume.
8 January 1993
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Desires
True heart saw fun whole -
Achilles without the heel -
Two parts for one goal …
13 April 2005
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Diagnosis
Thesis prognosis:
self congratulatory
points antithesis...
12 April 2005
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Disaster
Where servant and master
are seen as commonplace roles, -
pregnant disaster.
4 March 2002
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Dichotomy
Fourteenth of July,
African famine, men die:
in France, firework sky...
14 July 1992
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Discovery
Turning from pelf,
I leave to find fresh lodgings, -
discovery of self.
14 February 1992
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DisMANtled Dirge to Murmur Maid
Rhyme sung, tongue bland, - wise
man stung by hand wrung dry land runs.
Time flung, hung mime - sighs.
15 April 2005
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Dis-Solution
Unemployment's cure:
to be sure shall soon be seen
in sine_cure lure.
13 January 1993
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Dissolution and Solution
Coral lips dissolve
austral barrier [g]riefs,
lifelong puzzles solve...
4 March 2002
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Distance
Distance once meant more
than trouble, time and travel
to an unknown shore.
22 September 1995
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Distillation
Distillation haiku should instill
seasonable sense until
the seventeenth syll
2 May 2007
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Door Opens Slightly
Door opens slightly,
symbol sunshine soaks clear pane: -
sheet fills page lightly.
21 December 1989 and 27 September 2006
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Tableau
Superficial state,
as Seurat, draws dotted line
to anticipate
an inner picture
beyond the patina
of outer pitcher
apparent stricture
represents glaze on china
perspective switcher
deeper and richer
kakemono kimono
syllable hitcher
consciousness expands
as consonant components
land on vowel strands
pixel paradox
excites imagination
outside the mind's box
A gentle aura
corresponds to warmth within
not facial flora
22 June 2007
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Drawer
Hurt remains rammed tight
drawn curtain drawer of pained heart,
through hard_lie slammed tight.
13 January 1993
Tiroir
Ses peines sont cachées
dans un tiroir de son coeur, -
à peine[s] fermé.
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Dreams and Awakenings - Rêverie et Reveil
Dreams and Awakenings
Dreams
Soft summer tresses
caress and tease breeze with ease,
sun smile addresses
Awakenings
Winter distresses
who knits his [l]ice line sweater
the homeless stresses
Rêverie et Reveil
Rêverie
Les tresses d'été
caressent la brise, adressent
un rire au soleil.
Reveil
Détresse: l'hiver
stresse un clochard, - tisse tresse
son pull aux vers.
24 January 1993
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'Eight Homeless Dead'
One white winter week:
Paris turns the other cheek,
afraid to speak.
13 January 1993
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ELECTIONS
Party puppets fight
for pointless putty platforms,
ignore voters' plight.
13 January 1993
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Empathy
Empathy is reached
when soul twin soul meets,
completes, speed's need impeached
25 October 1992
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Encapsulation
From Earth rebirth speak?
Haiku may encapsulate
Heaven's mirth men seek.
13 April 2005
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End of Play
After the day, dusk -
can man face race also-ran -
after the play, husk
24 October 2006
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Extensions
Vine tendrils tender
ferment the seasons' reasons
as causal blender
24 October 2006
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Etchings
Time etches across
dotted line stitch-stretched between
Chance's pitch and toss.
3 August 1996
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Evening
Cat shadows lengthen
as eve stretches sleepy claws
across stitched carpet.
24 April 1990
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Exception
All is vanity
except the happiness shared
between you and me.
4 March 2002
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Ex Plane...ations
Leave mazes mundane.
Apparent contradictions
weave blazes sun plain...
11 December 2005
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Faithfulness
Define faithfulness:
Hope's triumph over Experience,
fear of loneliness …
Fidélité
La Fidélité:
Triomphe de l'expérience
sur l'espoir, lâche est …
23 July 1991
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Faits Divers
L'écho gnomique
inspire les fées d'hiver, -
lutte antinomique?
24 January 1993
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Farewell State
Elderly coughers:
welfare flunds flow painfully
from emptied coffers.
13 January 1993
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Faucet
Drops plop for set scene
as time and tide coincide
ripp[l]ing surface sheen
24 October 2006
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Fidelity
Is Fidelity,
after fear, AIDS' second child
now likely to be?
13 January 1993
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Fire
Burning branch hisses,
heaps sighs on its own ashes,
as candle kisses.
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Fire and Water
While the chimney's lips
purse around the flaming tongue,
Spring rain, spitting, drips.
10 January 1993
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Fleet Street
Springs beneath street -
cobble stones echo old bones -
heedless of time, fleet.
2 November 1990
Fleet Street II
Old cobbles carry
amplified urban echo
above ancient strand.
18 December 1992
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Floating World
From floating word world
kanji and katakana
pillow puns are whirled
9 January 2007
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Foothold Firm
Foothold firm may twist
false pride to prepare its fall -
one flick of the wrist...
13 April 2005
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Foreword
Imagination
adores space, blue skies absent
in pagination...
23 May 2001
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Freedom vs Haze[ag]itation?
Freedom flickering, -
shadows call walls' bluff, recall
FREEDOM's thicker ring!
21 March 2005
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Frog Blog
Internet Governance Forum - I.G.F. - In Good Faith
Pink clouds wave, lazy,
while webbed tree frogs dialogue, -
evening hazy...
Reflect, rephrase the
style: - free web blogs dialogue
on controls maybe...
rich rhyme scheme weighs the
Internet logs' legal bogs -
contradictions mazy.
Little allays the
concerns on how system cogs dog
all those held crazy.
Future conveys the
theme of digital divide fogs,
‘choice' upsy-daisy,
while who will pay the
piper as public sector clogs
C.S. with slazy
strategies daily,
I.T.U. I.O.U. hogs
our fate - Old Bailey
Society slays key
freedoms, going to the dogs,
pushing up daisy.
3 November 2006
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From Stone Age to Clone Age
Between Stone Age and Clone Age Alone Age?
On ova, unheard,
Waiting, longed to be egged on -
Listen - mocking bird
18 April 2005
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Frostbitten Fingers
Frostbitten fingers
beckon to a cold New Year
while the old one lingers.
13 January 1993
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Generation Gap
Dream generation
questions past pain, blames present
degeneration.
13 April 2005
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Genesis
Eddy. Dust winds swirl,
affect Effect - time ripples
Cause more dust must whirl...
12 April 2005
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Going Through E_motions
Going through motions,
I counter deception's drains,
high, dry emotions.
22 March 2005
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Great Expectations
Opened oysters show
neither seed nor sign of pearl, -
translucent glow.
10 January 1993
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Greenhouse Gas
Greenhouse gas glows, grows
pregnant paradise promise …
Greenland, melting s[n]ows.
24 November 2006
Haiku
Here, formal constraints
channel the soul's overflow,
ease inner restraints...
4 March 2002
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Haiku Reflections
Soul enlightenment:
Way becomes both purpose and
sole entitlement.
Life's rhyme repeating,
seldom satisfactory,
moves Time free fleeting
Nothing is foreign
with sentience passenger
equal neath Yug's reign
Where do souls find home?
If home is where the heart is, -
most, unhappy, roam.
Solitude etude:
though all roads may lead to Rome
rarely beatitude...
Gene encryption
splices gene-I-us unseen
to fact or fiction?
Sperm into ova
creates new life in a flash -
lightning, soon over
The name's revolution,
contribution, reflection -
the game's evolution!
21 May 2005
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Happy Landing
Misunderstanding
may lead to happy landing
Miss understanding
2 January 2007
Heaven
Heaven and Earth meet
with all dew formality
at the cloud banks' feet.
22 September 1995
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HTML
Host To My Leisure:
Internet pages prepare
payments or pleasure?
10 January 1993
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Hurricane
Eye in hurry cane
Yearns for Summer peace when past
Excitement may wane...
3 April 2005
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I Love You
Three short words: Phoenix,
melting all misconceptions,
wings over the Styx.
4 March 2002
Icicles
Icicles splinter
before the crocus sprouts,
with world in winter.
22 December 1994
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Ideologies
A concrete tear
welled up where once the wall
stood spelled for fear.
10 January 1993
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Illumination
Illumination
of soul made whole awakens
from hibernation...
6 April 2005
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Imagination
Imagination
adores space, blue skies, - absent in
all pagination.
10 May 1989
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Incandescence
Self-feeding, the fire
desires its own warmth, and warms
to its own desire.
January 9 1989
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Insect Aside ANT_hem
Breeze bright fans Spring glade
six legs tickle, tendrils' touch
test white hand ring laid...
13 April 2005
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In Vino Veritas?
One drunk's loud carouse
falls on deaf fears few afford,
none numbed feelings rouse...
19 June 2004
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Inflight Insight
Below, overhead,
Blue. In between, clouds jam view.
Azure sandwich spread.
Blue below and overhead,
an azure sandwich,
in between, clouds are spread.
12 April 1981 & 17 October 2005
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Interpretations
Soul song melody -
Rhapsody or threnody -
whole, wrong harmony
24 October 2006
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Into Autumn
With wrinkles outfaced
open eyes greet the autumn,
mind never straight laced.
16 March 2005
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Inwardly Digest
Rain and shine remain
main course - imagination
holds no hops as vain
24 October 2006
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Inspiration
Fresh inspiration
fertilizes the Future's
fresh inspiration.
10 January 1993
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Interplays
Our days are a maze
of puzzle piece pictures -
karmic interplays.
29 March 1992
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Internet Tally
Internet tally
reflects the ultimate surge
of a bull rally.
3 March 2000
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Just Ask
B ehind mirrored mask
E verything is possible -
WELL, ... why not just ask …
3 January 2006
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Knots
Tangled shoe laces
appear to be overwound
drunken spiders' traces...
10 January 1993
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Lateral Thinking
Lateral thinking
overspills the boundaries
of the mind, winking.
10 January 1993
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Lethe
Before dinner gongs
day after I pass away, -
forgotten my songs...
5 June 2005
Spectra Parody Witter BYNNER
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Light through Light
Light through light evolves
upon revolving planet
as darkness dissolves
24 March 2005
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Loneliness
How many more nights
shall soul wait for soul before
one loneliness bites?
10 January 1993
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Lost for Wor[l]ds
Forked tongues disappoint
what faith, hope, and charity,
commitment, anoint
24 October 2006
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Lovelorn Forlorn
Yawn shows sleep withdrawn,
interrupting dream cycle,
mourn blows deep with dawn
24 October 2006
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Match Points
French T.V. endorsed
four hours to tennis and two
to the holocaust.
10 January 1993
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Mauve and Yellow
Colour cluster blooms:
Fresh crocus congregatin
old Winter entombs.
10 January 2006
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Maximum Impact
Maxim's maximum
impact springs from ring of sting
terminating tale.
5 September 1998
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Mehr Licht!
«One last look! 'he cries.
Sleep steals over the spirit: -
closed book, open eyes.
10 January 1993
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Meiosis
Mars admires Venus
rising phoenix like to surge, merge,
in..gene...I...us
30 March 2005
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Middle Age Sp...read
Forty-five years fled.
Another now rests
its unhappy head.
10 January 1993
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Miss Took!
‘I've missed you so much! »
said she, clutching at a straw -
such an easy touch!
10 January 1993
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Miss Tressed
Mystic mistress tressed
slick slapstick wit writ address
tick trick missed best zest...
9 January 2007
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Miss Understanding Miss
Misunderstanding?
From heart of darkness issues
a small white lie.
9 January 1993
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Mitosis
Mitosis wakes fresh
chance to open close[d] divides, -
stem cell remakes flesh...
12 April 2005
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Monsoon
Syllable bubbles
start part dart from monsoon's heart
erase space, troubles
Mousson
Pluie de syllabes
comme au coeur de la mousson
efface l'espace
20 March 1992
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Moonshine
Mystery: moonshine
swiftly fades, shadow swathe
frees bitter thought line
3 March 1992
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Mostly Moonshine
The blind lead the blind
down the road of reflection,
to darkness resigned.
10 January 1993
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New Revolution
New revolution
paradigm shifts spin old top
to fresh solution.
10 January 1993
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Next Year
‘Next New Year? ', she said,
‘perhaps you will call to find
everybody dead.'
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No Slur!
Sounds into sounds slur
as taste bud clusters burst
into broad Scots' burr.
10 January 1993
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Noh
Turmoil, yes and noh -
melodramatic acro
batic ebb and flow...
8 April 2005
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Nuclear Leak - March 1992
Cloud grey, faces red.
St. Petersburg incident:
Tchernobyl ahead.
1 April 1992
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Nunc
As another leaf
forgotten flutters forlorn,
Time smothers all grief.
13 January 1993
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On Tap
Mahomet, mountain,
unmoving, the scene set for
eternal fountain.
4 March 2002
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On Track
Little sparrow hawk
preening, stretches fledgling wings,
prepares sparrow stalk
24 October 2006
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Obituary
Obituary:
Alphabetical order
British Museum.
10 January 1993
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Odors Rove
Summer Orange grove,
heat, blue skies, bees buzz belling,
subtle odors rove...
24 March 2005
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Old Logs Never Lie
Where are Winter's logs,
which were to comfort Spring soul -
all gone to the dogs …
1 January 2005
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Onwards
The days grow longer
with the winter solstice passed,
while I, no younger.
10 January 1993
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Open Source
Behind the mind's hedge
flowing heart shows glow of growth
as its leading edge.
4 March 2002
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Out at Sea
When you rowed to see,
the lotus, priest, did blooms red, white
till dusk detain thee?
19951224 - after YOSANO Akiko 1878_1942
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Papyrus
Papyrus rushed:
deciphered mysteries lit
histories long hushed.
4 March 2002
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Pawns
When children are used
as abused pawns between parents,
no-one is amused.
10 January 1993
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Perhaps
‘Next New Year », she said,
‘perhaps you will call to find
everybody dead ».
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Paintinted
Cold sunlight, gold, streams
through shivered panes, soul pained through
absence from his dreams...
15 March 2005
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Passer By
And you, passer by,
why the concern with my pains,
what's to sell I'd buy...?
12 April 2005
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Pattering
Sparrows smattering,
dawn's yawn spawns cheep chattering,
shadows scattering.
29 June 2006
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Phishing
Small fish in big pond
swallow identities, leave
bare beyond despond
24 October 2006
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Pillow
Her head on his heart,
dreaming a new tomorrow,
foresees a fresh start...
10 January 1993
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Pillow Words
Pillow wor[l]ds place lisp
through dreams' double meanings
will o'wisp case crisp...
24 March 2005
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Pollen
Pale pollen has spilled
gold dust from fragile flower's heart
with honey hive filled
Pollen
Pollen pale pris
du coeur de la fleur fragile, -
ruches, miel remplis.
3 March 1992
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Prior I Tease
Aspirations peer
with memories as Styx
swallows all who peer
24 October 2006
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Ph[r]ases
The Present echoes
The Past's frustrated woes
as the Future flows.
10 January 1993
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Poet's Vista
A sun deck perched high
in the lighthouse of the mind
to scan the soul's sigh.
10 January 1993
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Poetic Tensions
Poetic tensions:
pulsations and impulses,
pregnant projections.
10 January 1993
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Poetical Rules
Poetical rules
should be ingrained then ignored -
only the heart schools!
11 October 1995
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Post Mortem Post
Sweet sixteen greetings
received after accident -
such bitter sweetings...
Greetings are received
after obituary, -
cold comfort twice grieved.
15 April 2005
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Point of Who
All unique vision
shifts sharp perspective towards
ego's derision...
8 April 2005
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[P]ride
Icarus returns
with an overbearing pride
until waxed wing burns.
10 January 1993
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Promise
Light-heartedly, Spring
takes root during Winter's night
and fluffs out its wing.
10 January 1993
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Punch Line
... six seven eight nine...
when will ten come round again? ...
a knock out punch line...
18 April 2005
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Quality
What is ‘Quality'
but a purloined passion, fruit
swiped from Life's tree...
10 January 1993
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Quicksilver Seconds
Quicksilver seconds shoal-der their
passage across time. Soldered sighs
slip through consciousness, to soldier
conscientiously into an
almost inaccessible past.
Evanescence - ever ‘naissance' -
in alternating currents
conscious of
superlative latency...
29 January 1993
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Quiver Ring
‘Commit, hold me tight! '
Cupid's quiver lightning dart -
moonshine at midnight …
8 April 2005
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Reaching Out
Winter trees etched black -
Splayed branches stretch to lost leaves
Till Spring's fetched back …
1 April 2005
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Ready to unlearn
Accept the unthought,
grasping at straws til ready
to unlearn torts taught...
13 February 2005
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Reasoning Seasonings and Seasoning Reasonings
Multi-coloured leaf
shadowing corn-crop bounty
springs harsh frost flake grief
27 January 2007
Reborn
Tattered wings forlorn
leave interleaving trace til
matter springs reborn
13 April 2005
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Recycling
From fresh jade to jade
cycle spins cycle onwards
til perceptions fade.
24 October 2006
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Resourcing
White on white clouds must
just uproot anxieties,
mute silence unjust.
24 October 2006
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Residual Image
Frost-bitten fingers
beckon from a cold New Year
as if old still lingers.
10 January 1993
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Recession
Is unemployment
just a four syllable wor[l]d
nothing can prevent?
10 January 1993
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‘Recession to End Soon'
Waiting in the wings,
Depression, homeless, hovers, -
eternal, Hope s[pr]ings.
13 January 1993
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Rediscovery
His entry, surprise,
from her eyes waves all disguise
prepares sunny skies.
people see she in he
as he in she startles free
voyage discovery
softly unfolding
soul's dream pane warms to shared stream
nothing withholding
calling to the day
as net of firefly rapture
captures inner Way
light touch strips sorrow
from heart led awakening
to lip tomorrow
her eyes through his eyes
spill over horizons' ties
in replete surprise
as curtains are drawn
as a soul reborn finds wings
to sing to fresh dawn
bringing without strings
acceptance as everything
springs soul wanderings
17 April 2005
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Renewal
Silver setting scene,
graced with one fresh red rose on
snowy damask seen.
13 January 1993
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Rise and Fall
I'm sublime chime rhyme,
climb from and to nothingness, -
prime-time grime, slime die'm
10 April 2005
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Rhyme Flows
Time, slow, sunward goes
past Winter links future Spring
rhyme's glow forward flows...
./.
Time goes
winter rime
rhyme glows
24 March 2005
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R.I.P.
Communism, dead,
but still unburied, awaits
its elegy red.
10 January 1993
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Rich Ter
Quake loco motion,
ocean tsoon am I -
wake lo! commotion
24 March 2005
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Robin
Where is that robin?
winging through the new haiku,
wild rhymes a bobbin'
24 October 2006
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Role Reversal
Sharpened [s]words fall flat,
heart he art...fully pulses
to tatami mat...
8 April 2005
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Seasoning
How many more storms
can knotted oak stand and face
before blow, rot, worms.
10 September 1993
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Season's Greetings
Layers of coloured leaf
prepare the Summer's bounty
beyond Winter's grief...
28 March 2005
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Scene yet Unseen
Midnight Metro scene:
subtle population change,
on reflection, seen.
25 February 2005
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See Man Seizure - or Mal de Mer Maids
Siren drinks to weep,
swan song seldom wrong, she thinks, -
seaman sinks to sleep.
Mermaids keep salt clinks
unfathomable to reap
secrets deep …/… sense shrinks.
24 March 2005
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Seek Cause and Effect III
See flaws and select
from flow fresh gambit gamble, -
seek cause and effect...
11 December 2005
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Self Completion
Eternal longing
spins yin through Yang through yin, yen
to, from, belonging...
9 April 2005
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Sexual Forays
Sexual morays, -
the more's the merrier -
textual forays.....
10 January 1993
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Shakes Dick
All's well that ends well
Much ado about nothing...
Tale of two cities...
6 April 2005
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Shared Ticket
Upon speedy lines
trains of thought swiftly advance,
uniting two signs
4 March 2002
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Share Ring
Words fold two worlds to
chance glance distance into dance
true scrolled - who whirled who?
23 December 2006
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Silence
Worse than cutting word
or misinterpretation, -
silence cuts, bite heard...
12 April 2005
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Silence is Golden
‘I love you, gilts, Dear,
so why need I trumpet it? " -
sly move to guilts clear!
10 January 1993
Silence c'est de l'Or
‘Je t'aime, c'est clair!
ainsi, pourquoi te le dire? »
Tout est lumière!
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Silhouette
A silken carpet silhouettes the sky, -
or could it be a swarm of butterfly?
23 March 1975
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Similarities
On analysis:
many ways often lead to
end which both was, is.
4 March 2002
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Since Sere
Autumn leaf loss sere,
enwrapping next year's seedling;
protects sprouting spear
24 October 2006
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Single Cell
Each within his cell,
contemplating Life and Death,
plumbs Solitude's well.
10 January 1993
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Sleep
Sleep: - the brain prepares
the day, and minds it is not
taken unawares.
10 January 1993
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Sleeping Beauty
She tosses and turns
upon the sheets of her dreams
until sleep returns.
10 January 1993
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Smoke [B]Rings
Cigarette swirl crave:
wake, smoke, wait, weight, smoke, - wake's whirls
see fingers furl grave...
10 April 2005
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Smoke [S]talk King
Smoking, though passive, -
in-joke to silent reaper
stalking impassive...
7 April 2005
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S.O.S. City Zen SEES GENE-I-US!
S_toke write brain zen [b]ring
O_ven internal to boil
S_omething seasoning
STOKE or TOKE STOVES?
1) seasoning on seas reasoning
15 April 2005
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Solitude
Each within his cell,
contemplating Life and Death,
plumbs solitude's well...
14 January 2005
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Spelt Out
Rather than think,
let thoughts spill onto paper
in indelible ink.
11 October 1995
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Spied Her
Fly! … dread deceiving
soft gossamer spread with dew -
spider thread weaving...
4 April 2005
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Spring Synthesis
"Atchoo'! he sneezes -
pleasing column_bines in line
Spring pollen, breezes...
13 April 2005
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Strange Change Range
Despite climate change
characters weave into bark -
hark! senses strange range
9 January 2007
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Struggles
Sea coasts towards shoals
b[r]eaching outreach speech to teach
vanity of goals
24 October 2006
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Summer Eve
Softly scentèd breeze
wafts waves' warmth from stars, wonder
startles waking trees
Whispering leaves
believing divinity
weave soft summer eves
haiku written 2 November 1990 revised 9 October 2008 for previous version see below
Summer Eve
A soft summer breeze,
slipping between silver stars,
tickles sleeping trees.
2 November 1990
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Summer Heat
SUn's beat, summer heat
Mounting tide beside the beach, -
MERmaid calls.... cold feet...
13 April 2005
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Sunset
Between wolf and dog
sun sinks fiery teeth into
the horizon's fog.
10 January 1993
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Subtle Supple
Where oak's rent, the reed
bends before the blast to send
its scattering seed.
10 September 1993
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Suspense
Sudden-death suspense
mushrooms into crackling cloud.
Dust settles. Silence.
10 January 1993
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Syllables
Syllables slither around
like Canadian garnets in the sink-holes of Alberta,
in consonant activity.
10 January 1993
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Surface Thinkles
On her face wrinkles
twinkle rhymes written to time
as surface thinkles...
8 April 2005
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Suspended
Suspended between
choice, voice, advance and retreat,
chance slips from the scene.
1 March 1998
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Syllable harvest
Syllable harvest -
like monsoon f[l]oods - inundates
on time both space, rest.
Moisson de syllabes
Moisson de syllabes -
comme la mousson - inonde,
efface toute espace
20 March 1992
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Taking Pains
Painstakingly look
superficiality
sheds to read soul's book
24 October 2006
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Tao
Way won't weigh to make
self-evidence evident,
second take - mistake
intuitions wake
tune to the intemporal
soothe soul's quest, thirst slake
all in all partake
of all through all interface
as all IS all's [s]take
24 October 2006
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Tao and Time
Tao and Time are tide -
see ripple pattern waving, -
tongue-tied control deride
24 October 2006
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Tanker Tanka
Heavyweight tanker
knew the drill yet drank her fill -
Katrina thank her -
from spill to spill, settled, still, -
strong cyclone sank her
1 November 2006
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Temptation
Out on a limb, oh
forbidden fruit out of reach...
suspended limbo...
8 April 2005
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Tempus Temper
As nothing the years,
here only lonely days count
aweighting with tears...
5 June 2005
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Tenderness
Tenderness transmits
tingling through the fingertips: -
life's meaning mosaic fits
4 March 2002
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Tentatively Touching Touché
Yearning or learning -
perhaps learning while yearning
yet earning spurning
24 October 2006
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The Bird of Time
While the distant drums
beat time with a fleet farewell,
an agèd drone hums.
13 January 1993
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The Fairies
When we lose love of life and liberty,
then fairies free their forest fastness flee...
23 March 1975
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The More things Change
Tonight chocolate broke
tomorrow, balm for heart's ease
chock a block choke coke!
Ce soir, chocolat.
Demain, la douceur du fond
du coeur, - du coca!
9 January 1993
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The Moving Finger
Balance-sheet of ice
greets year's end. Fate's finger writes.
Slate clears in a trice.
10 January 1993
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The Old Pond
Into an old pond
leaps olympic longjump frog -
water sounds beyond...
15 April 2005 Parody BASHO
Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto ~ Basho
Literal Translation
Fu-ru [old] i-ke [pond] ya,
ka-wa-zu [frog] to-bi-ko-mu [jumping into]
mi-zu [water] no o-to [sound] Translated by Fumiko Saisho
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The Spring
Through bursting buds the blooms of summer peep,
but to their beauty is the slave asleep.
Haiku
Through bursting buds peep
Summer's blooms - to their beauty
is the slave asleep.
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The Thrush
Desolate destruction, spot fire bombs fall, -
A timid thrush now worms beside one wall.
Cluster bombs' loud fall
sowed desolate destruction -
Timid thrush, one wall!
23 March 1975
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'The Unkindest Cut of All'
Lost innocence, bled
white with compromise's [s]word,
mourns motives misread.
19 June 2004
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The Unkindest Die Cut of All
Stereotypes star, show
square pegs zero tolerance
which would round holes know
24 October 2006
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Thought in Due Season
Whim wit[h]in the brain
awaiting synaptic spring -
intuition's skein.
4 November 2006
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Three F[r]iends
First fast friend was PAIN
sharp, yet safe refuge from all
rage thump that pumped vein
One more for BLADE, bane
chill, still sharper, none forestall, -
call sustained, blood-stain.
One last for SLEEP - lain
false mirage call before fall,
forgetting, - vain drain.
Three friends, SLEEP, BLADE, PAIN
passed judgement that all appal, -
stark dark pall remains …
17 April 2005
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Ticket to ride
Ticket to Ride:
will two players be bowled out
or share strong wicket.
4 March 2002
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Time-Bound
"Am I the answer
to all that you are asking -
Can I be enough? " … Linda Ori
Invitation short
caught spontaneous thought,
nor bought, nor sought, brought
as offer unsought
evolving untaught from tort
to taut cavort
haiku sport support
revolving comfortably
can't distort, contort.
ONE HUGE, ENOUGH, - spun
anagrams of just ONE HUG, -
EGO HUN? UH! GONE?
Answers all around
can thus be found profoundly
in step, two time-bound...
8 December 2006
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Time in Season
How many more nights
shall sole sleep with sole before
wan one lonely bites.
10 January 1993 revised 9 February 2009 robi3_0705_robi3_0000
for previous version see below
Time in Season
How many more nights
shall soul share with soul before
one loneliness bites.
10 January 1993
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Time's flow sections
Time's flow sections dream
shedding sedimentary
reflections on st[r]eam...
11 April 2005
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Torn Ado
Raindrops tap tap tap,
thunder, lightning spin affr[r]ay, -
branches snap snap snap...
30 March 2005
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Tornados' Roleplay
Twin towers sudden loom
larger than life's horizon,
underlining gloom
24 October 2006
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Trained [H]ear
A distant echo
rumbles into awareness,
tracks the first metro
tunnelling through the darkness
before the dawn's glow.
10 January 1993
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Transcend
Mind's magic rug
cause, effect, can transcend, span
from ksana to yug
22 November 1995
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Trains
Trains run on Time, all
in a straight line, but Time
waves circle, feint, fall.
22 September 1995
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Trace Sings
Fast as Summer fire
you [t]race into my future, -
b[l]ush burns with desire...
1 August 1999
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Tragi Comic
With Comedy tamed,
despair rots round heart wreathing
tragedy named.
5 June 2005
Spectra Parody Witter BYNNER
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Transition
As world in winter
watches the Spring awaken
icicles splinter
24 October 2006
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Transparency
Transparency
closes escape routes for those
who'd choose not to see...
20 January 1997
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Transcience III
Time's sickle descends,
epidermic, uncertain
sandy trickle ends
11 July 1977
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Trible
Meanings steamed, in_tense
coat code mirror's reflections, -
trible condensed sense …
10 April 2005 Treble or Triple Dribble - ‘trible'
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Troubadour
Syllables' sincere spring
reverberates clear, sharing, -
brain drains vain pain's sting
24 October 2006
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Tryptich
Drip, drip, drip, drip trip
trickle ignores Time's sickle
drop, drop, dropp tryptich
24 October 2006
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Two Timing
Measure Meant in Two Timing Undertow
Time turns round timed turn:
only in measures meant may
we through time return...
1 September 1992
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Troubled Waters
What lies [dr]I've a_head
after deep disappointment,
confidence miss led …
18 April 2005
- dive, drive, rive or I've … a head or ahead?
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To Wake or Not to Wake
Tomorrow, awake,
I will bear witness to Life -
should I sleep, no wake!
22 September 1995
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Time Well Spent?
The quarterly rent
and the lease's renewal, -
is this Time well spent?
14 January 1993
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Tuning
Intuition lights
upon harmony as strings
tune to dreams' delights.
4 March 2002
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‘Turning' the ‘Page'
Hip Mark Foley, oh!
'turns' the Republican page
of whip portfolio
In turn intern freaks
as AIM hits mark close to home, -
ex-congressman [s]peaks...
Minor misdemeanour
mocks electoral pretence,
taken to cleaner …
1 October 2006
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Under Wraps
Warmth shared uncovers
thaw's cause effect redraws laws -
no flaws discovers
24 October 2006
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Unemployment
Is unemployment
just a four syllable wor[l]d
nothing can prevent?
10 January 1993
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Unseasonable
Strange how climate change
now flakes floes' snows - warm air flows -
rice for ice exchange
23 December 2006
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Unwholesome
The wholesale warehouse
bears broad spread upon bare board -
wanting, want, espouse.
Tawdry tinsel shed,
beast and beauty wed despair
in lacklustre shed.
19 June 2004
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Upon Arrival
The clouds, which mask mount Fuji from below,
Above appear a blanket of Spring snow...
Arriving by air
Fuji's clouds seem snow blanket, -
no shrouds anywhere
28 March 1981
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Vanity Fair Fare
Fool for Fools' go[l]d ploughs
the field of vanity fair
to cruel mirage house …
19 June 2004
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Vers Vers Very Vers Vérité
D'un âge gnostique
Nostradamus prognostique
trépas agnostique...
2 October 2005
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Verse Reverse Background
Context chromatic
reinvents or prevents con
tent enigmatic.
Rich flight perception
seen through variable screens
which [w]right deception.
15 April 2005
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Voyage Out
This, the voyage out,
is pregnant with belonging -
without which all's doubt.
4 March 2002
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Wacht am Rhein
Watching till the dawn
matches the fire's cheery gleam,
the sentinels yawn.
10 January 1993
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Waylaid Way Weighed
May insanity
stay brinks, blink p[l]ayback darkness -
weigh humanity...
9 April 2005
Wet Timber
Hiss of sizzling log
steams ashes on crackling sparks
beneath smoky fog.
28 January 1993
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Wheel Turns
What IS, was, - what WAS,
will be, - wheel turns while Time cheats
all who would cheat time...
18 April 2005
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Wheels
As wheels spin faster
they tune colours into keys,
differences master.
4 March 2002
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Whither?
Where are Winter's logs,
which were to warm the Spring's soul?
All gone to the dogs!
10 January 1993
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Windfall
Trees [s]pray, praising breeze
for empowering pollen's
opportunities
24 October 2006
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World View
Continent content
in content consensual
dissent incontinent …
1 October 2006
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X Ray
Maid, lover, blends magnetic game in tune
Men hover enigmatic, moon s[p]in tame
Radioscopie
Si la femme est l'aimant, de la vie la musique,
L'homme vit donc à son tour en bande magnétique!
3 March 1992
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You I Am
‘You and I on call'
Offers open horizons, -
Useless limits fall...
I, you, osmosis
At last discover, reaching
Metamorph-oasis...
11 January 2002
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‘Wryku' 1 3 5 7 9 11 syllables
Know High Kudos - No Haiku Wry Cue
N ew
O pus to
H armonize words through
A crostic's curlicue cue
I nspires innovative verse into
KUdos trophy hotspot - strophe's knots undo...
2 January 2007
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Jonathan Robin 1975_2007
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem