31-day Haiku Challenge

A haiku mind - fine.
Yet all I really long for
is a haiku LIFE.

31-day Haiku Challenge

In my heart's caverns
In the echo of the woods
Your memory stays

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Peace. Serenity.

Faith. Hope. Love. Wisdom. Courage.

Surrender. Breathe. Laugh.

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Tick, tock, goes the clock

Long afternoon shadows creep

Waiting to sleep, deep

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Who ate half the moon,

leaving bright stars for crumbs and

me with dreams of you

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Snowflakes in springtime
Lost in the daffodils' gaze
Winter and Spring kissed

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Kalipay, mahay

Mapugngan pa ang baha

Nunca ang luha

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I can hear the chimes
I can hear the birds, the wind
Oy! To hear the clouds!

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I waited for Spring

When beneath Winter's leavings

Spring waited for me

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Lisud usahay

Mga pulong inihap

Nahinaykan man

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If words were choc'lit

truffles - sinful, decadent
Guilty -  I've indulged

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(image by richard suarez)

So close yet still far

Hiding shy behind gray clouds
Moonstruck by midnight

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The geisha is sad

The kabuki - terr'bly bad

Morning comes, sun shines

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With eyes closed - listen

Cherry blossoms sing of hope

Stillness brings clar'ty

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Saffron eye peeking

Past gnarly late winter trees

Morning has broken

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A baby's first cry

Fleeting, inviolable
The old man's last sigh

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Even the moonbeam

Casts its light on murky pond

Water lily blooms

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(art by Ploi )

Red poppies calling
Remembrance in its petals
Beauty, sleep, and death.

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Time's but in the mind

For why do we move it back

Just to spring forward

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Dawn breaks, heaven smiles

The sun drinks of morning dew

And I - I of you

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(stained glass art by Denis Ibona)

Earth and water rise

Stealing night and dreams with it
Land of Zen weeping        

                                                                                                                 

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Time - to do nothing
To actually do nothing
THAT - is everything

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Ashes to ashes

Forty days and forty nights

The Word, bread, water.

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The washer, dryer

Wash, dry, fold, and put away

Were life that easy

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(image by Tom Wortham)

Jonquils, crocuses
Unafraid of frost - they bloom

To gift us with Spring     
                                                                                                             

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Oh! I'm late! I'm late!

But the day is not over

The night my respite

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(rennan quijano)

Rainsounds - my mantra

Rivulets turn to rivers

Rainclouds  prom'sing more

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Rain falls, remorseless
Fallowed fields once parched - no more
The day gray as dead

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(image by Tom Wortham)

Bluebird back from south

Baby grass under Fall's leaves

Begged, "Not yet. Still cold."

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Naked trees stand tall

Gnarled, brown fingers reaching out

"O Spring! Bring our clothes!"

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Starry, starry night
Paint my palette tired and fried
Have to say goodnight