Category Archives: Haiku

contemporary haiku poetry

First Snow

first snow darkness hiding with the mouse     Words and Images Copyright 2018 Harry D. Hudson All rights reserved
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Balance

The Autumn Equinox is a time of balance. It marks the point in time when the length of day and night are the same, serving as the end of summer and the commencement of the fall season.  It is also a time of returning to ourselves, the beginning of the year of the Soul, the…
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Ice

This time of year, half-way between the Equator and the North Pole, brooks and rivers turn to a festival of delights as freezing and thawing transforms them into wonders of line, form, and texture. With the longer days and warming light a natural wonder miles long unwinds at our feet, different with every hour that passes.…
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Whiteness!

1. Butsuga ichinyo ––Oneness   first snow–– darkness hiding with the mouse         2. Yugen ––Beauty suffused with ineffable mystery   Whiteness!–– ghosts and snow crossing the road     3. Essentiality   Whiteness!–– footprints, no footprints the same sadness     4. Fuga no makoto  ––Poetic Truth   Whiteness!–– everywhere, flying…
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