You took my breath away.
What did you do with it?
Ah yes, I remember.

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Japanese toilet wall

This Spring, a new name
among the old graffiti -
will it be true love?

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This autumn evening
my haiku speaks of sadness
yet the bare trees smile

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0016 Immortalised - A Not Quaiku

The almond petals
fall as slow as snowflakes
hoping that a poet passes.

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Lonely winter afternoon

When the heron's cry
did not echo in the mist,
did the cliffs hear it?

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Does this mirrored face
have the same thoughts about me
as I have of it?

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The sky is heavy with rain.
a poem still only half read
in the sunshine

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A shared secret

My smiling mind winks
at my heart,
reading the first line of your haiku

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To Buson

The great temple bell
and small butterfly asleep
may both be surprised.

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Coo coo coo

The lazy cuckoo
dies after eight thousand calls -
the gods are counting.

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