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Empty

Ashi — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:43:50 +0000

My notebook
starts and ends
with blank pages
empty box
holds no answer

– this was true just before the trip to Crete, it’s not anymore; beware of the 8 Crete poems shortly

Ashi — Sun, 15 May 2011 03:21:34 +0000

I hurt my self today
thinking of starting
all over again
but then again no
six decades once is enough

Ashi — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:41:34 +0000

outside
wind, rain and leaves
I wish
and the fairy granted
inside cozy fireplace

Ashi — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:28:04 +0000

Not one but many
leaves fall
like a dream
prolonging
seconds to minutes

Ashi — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:28:33 +0000

History of culture
we have it
some less
some more
colorfully

Comment to recent post’ at Hidenori Hiruta place Akita Haiku.

Ashi — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:45:26 +0000

by the moon
ice crystals flourish
by the sun
melting
battlefield

Ashi — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:47:15 +0000

By slightly tilted head
clouds glide
of the birch
side by side
snow change into water

Ashi — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:59:21 +0000

The iron fist of winter
hit again and again
no wonder
I’m dreaming
of spring

Ashi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:07:50 +0000

Dark branches
with glittering white
a restraining gage
Winters prisoner
longing for freedom

Ashi — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:53:28 +0000

This 1th. Advent
one candle ignited
three to go
a mere fraction of time
until Yule