cRaCkEd   coloured      leave flakes

trampled   fading in trail dirt

graduations

Of the African Continent

Egypt's Arabs

Africa's anathema

Spring of discontent

colonial pawns

African Arabs     Rise uP

A Haiga from the third edition of my recently published book of poetry entitled "JIKU"

Bursts of fluffy sparks

 emanate from prickly stalks

thistle seeds aloft

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A Haiku for Hokusai's "Thirty Six Views of Mt Fuji" Koshu Misaka suimen (Reflection in Lake Misaka)

A Contemporary Haiga

"Fictitious Facade"

                      Fuji

natures imprint - coloured stain

        woodblock reflection

Joie de Vivre (This Print entitled "Colestin" is available at TurningArt.com by Byron Dudley)

(An example of of Poekuagery)

summer's green River

(sprawling shenanigans)

frolics on hills      as clouds peek

(over a foliage blanket)

scent   of a cool breeze

(mountain meadows      Colestin)

This 16 x 20 framed print is available for free from TurningArt.com (for 3 months) to the first 20 people who leave me their email under comments.  

A Haiku for Hokusai's "Thirty Six Views of Mt Fuji" #22

HAYAUMA (Sumidagawa Sekya no sato/Sekiya Village on the Sumida River)

a conifers view

natures gnarled beauty

eschews the plumline

Hiking the PCT

Dusk's fog dissipates

headlamps?      voices?

blighted      solitude

A red dragonfly

dyed      in a sunset

still      in autumn's dusk

Journeying

into the great red north

cold      warmth      a bYSS!

    

Thinking of home (an example of Poekuagery)

Conifers blooming

(Pines, ferns, moss, beeming)

foliage soirees       Beatles!   ?

(dissipated   needle trysts)

enervate old stands

(Aki   embracing falling needles - lying - rising from a forest floor)

From my book "JIKU"

My life ebbing

A faucet leaks in a sink

full it overflows

A heavy paraphrasing

In solitude

a suent road   less traveled

know it well I do

Curtain clouds abate

 

projecting Autumn's twilight

sojourning moonbeams

crackling awake     old growths

stare up and contemplate

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Fuji" #4.

A Contemporary Haiga

imitation

visual sampling

Wave of flattery

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #3(Sukiyagashi in the Eastern Capital)".

A contemporary Haiga

cold-dawn    yawns under

spread of crunchy cold whiteness

a son     slow to rise

Untitled

Chiaroscuro

 

sky permeates foliage

 

on a forest floor

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A Senryu for the final image of Hiroshige's "53 Views of the Tokiado".

A Contemporary Haiga

Bridging Sandbars

Tokiado to Kyoto

Fifty three ways

A Haiku for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #28.

A Contemporary Haiga for (Nagakubo/Nagakubo Station)

Dark young leaves

Cool fog a diffusing   bridge

gossamer moonbeams 

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "Moon and Wild Geese", from his Nature print series.

A Contemporary Haiga

          Moonlit trio

silent dive from a cool moon

Visual      S  C  R  E  E  C  H  !

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #27".

A Contemporary Haiga

        A red gated rock

strewn      weeping bush clovers

    stone seashore orchard

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "69 stations of Kisokaido #40".

A Contemporary Haiga, (edited)

Vitriolized raindrops

agitate placidity

medicants flee 

A Senryu for Hiroshige's "53 Stations of the Tokaido #26".

A Contemporary Haiga for Kakegawa Akibayama enbo/Distant View of Mt Akiba at Kakegawa

Atop a bridge                                        s

                                                         e

non-capitulation                           E

                                                  L

f    u    t      r    n           a kite   F  

   l     t     e    i    g

A Haiku & Tanka for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #51.

A Contemporary Haiga

Cormorants strung out

Fires cast ephemeral light

Bobing by moonlight

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "53 Stations of the Tokiado #49".

A Contemporary Haiga for (Tsuchiyama no haru no ame/Spring Rain at Tsuchiyama)

A bridge fords a stream

Mirth !     tree lined civility

spittled raindrops scream

A Haiku (senryu) & Tanka for Hiroshige's "69 Stations of Kisokaido #37.

A Contemporary Haiku/Tanka for (Miyanokoshi Station/Miyanokoshi)

Genpei Shadows

Moonlit Heike Silhouettes

wait!     Yoshinaka?

Minamoto !      Taira !

Tales of Heian Fuyu    

A Haiku for Hiroshige's "69 Kisokaido Stations #51".

A Contemporary Haiga

Suwa Fuyu

Fuji water xing 

Omiwatari

 

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A Senryu for Hiroshige's "Sixty-Nine stations of Kisokaido #33".

A Contemporary Haiga

Woodcutters Shelter

Under a gnarled pine   fire warms 

Motoyama Soba  

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #30".

A contemporary Haiga

A sacred path

Kai's Misaka Pass

that tree frames Fuji

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 views of Mt Fuji #24".

A contemporary Haiga

A    d  r  i  f  t

pining for Mt Fuji

de nouveau

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "36 Views of Mt Fuji #20".

A Contemporary Haiga

At waters edge

Enoshima's Torii

Fuji's sacred gateway

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #106".

A contemporary Haiga for Fukagawa Kiba/Fukagawa Timber yards

Snowboards

Crisp air

powdered snow

A Senryu for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #80".

Contemporary Haiga for Kanasugibashi Shibaura/The Kansaugibashi Bridge and Shibaura

Buddhist Pilgrims

Nam-ya-myoho-renge-kyo ?

Nichiren Xing 

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #42,65,76".

Contemporary Haiga 

Cherry Blossoms    gone

the scent of Wisteria

Xing with pilgrams

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #72".

Contemporary Haiga

Edo's Bento Shrine

Hundreds of views later

Haneda Airport

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #75".

Contemporary Haiga for Kanda Konyacho/ The Dyer's Quarter in Kanda

Fuji

Hiroshige's Monogram

Sakana dyed silk

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #93".

Contemporary Haiga for Meguro Jijigachaya/Grandp's Tea-House at Meguro

A windy road

Viewing Fuji from a tea stall

Grandpa's Meguro

A Senryu for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #90".

Contemporary Haiga for Saruwakamachi yoru-no kei/Saruwakamachi Quarter by Night

Bunraku   shadows

Sarukawa-Machi

Kabuki theatrics

A Haiga for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo-98"

A contemporary Haiga for Ryogoku hanabi/Fireworks at Ryogoku

Ephemeral

Chiaroscuro

Sky Bridge xing

seasonal purification

a river of flower fire

A Hiaku for Hiroshige's "One hundred famous views of Edo #101".

A Contemporary Haiga for  Asakusa tanbo tori no matchi mode/Asakura Rice Field During the Cock Festival at Otori Shrine

Look!      Bear Claws

A tailless courtesan lounges

Pilgrims pass below

Yoshiwara Sparrows

tori      visit by daylight

A Haiku for Hiroshige's "100 views of Edo #94".

A Contemporary Haiga for Mama-no momiji Tekona-no yashiro Tsyugashi/Scarlet Maple Trees at Mama by the Tekona-no yashiro Shrine and the Tsugihashi Bridge

Japanese Maples

Landscape portraiture

A bridge to a shrine

Manyoshu links to the past

Tekona's sensitivity

Another Haiku-tanka-Haiga-Poekuagery in the works

Gales mash root rot

Autumn's needles cry    in fall

on a forest floor

A breeze   leaves   a trunk prostate

Shrill silence     Autumn's fall

An excerpt from the 2nd edition of my book JIKU

Life splintering

Relationships flickering

A cloud       a bear witness

 

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An untitled Haiku

I pedal past

raindrops,  pummeling petals

wrung dry,  by high winds

A Cycle

Morning Glory burst into bloom

Kokyo by mid morning

Jakkodo arrives by noon

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Enlightenment? (a haiku & tanka in the works)

 

Moonlight

(laves) albesence

bliss

reflecting in a puddle

creamhued linen moonbeams

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