Opening darkness: haiku for April 2009

3/4/09

The rain is roaring
drowning out the surf’s thunder.
North and south, there’s floods.


10/4/09

The cloud-covered moon
the full moon, at 2 am
showed herself, I danced.

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I'm full of poems,
long ones, crowding out haiku –
but soon miss my friends.


16/4/09

sunrise
and the vast river
waiting


17/4/09

A fine new morning:
sunshine after days of rain.
We wake, smile, embrace.


22/4/09

White noise
and outside the sea
booming.

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opening darkness
seeds half realizations
first widening blooms

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wild ocean tonight
thundering, coming down hard
and foaming the dunes

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A poem in tanka form, with senryu feel, about haiku:

Haiku on Friday (MySpace)

I started the group
so I’d learn to write haiku
from skilled friends who joined.
They are skilled, I’m still learning –
but I’m seen as an expert!


24/4/09

Tibetan Prayer Flags

At length the weather
will erase what is written.
Prayers are renewed.

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Earth Day

We wake to sunlight
and the planet still here
the morning after.

On the other hand ...

Enjoy what we have!
Sweet awakening today,
and how much longer?

- Devil's Advocate


25/4/09

Dawn Service, Anzac Day

At Gallipoli
a bugle sounds the Last Post
then comes Reveille.
Old enemies, side by side
remember, and pray for peace.


29/4/09

To Sandra
(for her profile page on MySpace)

You’re a restful place
for me to come and visit
sometimes … it’s enough.

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Bright green lorikeet
flashes past me as I walk,
vanishes in tree.