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Haiku Digest #3

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Haiku Digest #3

A Haiku and Haibun Collection

Peter B
Oct 22, 2021
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Haiku

Morning frost

beauty preserved

as droplets


unexpected snow

ambitious winter's green hue

Icarus autumn


Stiff wind strips the trees

Leaves ripple the water—

but not as pebbles do


Forest trees ablaze

overcast amber skies alight

dimmer lands below


Crisp air, shivering

a warm sweater thwarts the cold

beginning to fade


Bitter, chilling air

vanished by the rising sun

earlier each day


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Slow is a sunrise

when your neighbors are buildings

living in downtown

Glass-laden friendships

with endless miles of walkways

circling one-way streets

All I need is near

just a short walk away—

but I long to escape



Haibun

A busy street in downtown Minneapolis—frequented by busses, bisected by train tracks, escorted by shops and high rises alike, during fleeting summer weeks is blocked off; the harvest overruns the street.

Apple falling

upon waiting concrete—

farmers' market


Countless tints of white, all clean at first glance. The discriminating eye discerns the difference and begins to better understand what it means to be truly pure.

Pearl necklace

dirty in the snow

when dropped


Winter keeps trying to creep in. Snow falls and melts, but the bees have long since departed. I sipped honeyed tea with family for the first time in a while today—a much needed reprieve. But as honey takes time to make, I imagined the effort from my flying friend that it took to sweeten my tea and was thankful for it.

A honey bee

kneading pollen—

for tea cakes

yellow and black bee on yellow and white surface

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