Up there, Orion
rules the darkness, but dawn breaks
arrows, dogs, and all
Friday haiku 79
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Friday haiku 61
An unusual posting for me. I wrote this haiku, or haibun, I suppose, in Spanish while in Mexico, and translated it into English. Among other things, I got a new insight into translation. It’s no easier just because you wrote the original.
Fuera de la madrugada
salta el sol
corazón palpitante
Out of the darkness
leaps the sun
like a beating heart
Friday haiku 54
Feeling minimal today.
Morning
cracks open
November
Haiku for a Tuesday morning
Red-shouldered hawks are the only ones who call continuously while hunting. Very sporting, I thought.
Daybreak
A pair of hawks
announce the sun
In leaps dawn
In leaps dawn
Like impetuous whimsey
All dressed in fiery red
Eyes burning with mad ambition
A pox on sleep!
The fawning dead
Drifting endlessly into
Oblivion
Not for us!
Up like buttercups
Like spiky woven thistles
Up toward the solar apogee
Until finally, inevitably,
The long graceless glide
Begins again
In slips dusk
All dusky
exiles child 