I've been posting some heavy stuff lately, so I figured I'd publish something lighter: ten haiku about the moon that I've written over the years. I love looking up at the sky (some would say I have my head in the clouds!) and the moon is a classic subject for Japanese haiku, so here goes.
3 A.M.
Flooding light
Frosts the floor
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Broken clouds
Tinged with white
Somewhere the moon
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Reddish clouds
The only sign of
Moon's eclipse
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Skylight frost
Refracting silver
New Year's moon
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Butter moon
Halfway over the rim
Of the hill
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Setting moon
Snowy peaks
Which is whiter?
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Rising sun
Setting moon
Which is brighter?
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Behind the roof
The moon glows silver
Lights beneath are gold
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A yellow smudge
Off to the east
No moon for clouds
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So orange
Like an alien sun
High smoke moon
As you can see, I don't use the standard 17-syllable (5/7/5) form of Japanese haiku, since our tongue has more short words than theirs does. Instead, compose these as ultra-short poems of anywhere from nine to fourteen syllables. I'm still experimenting...
(Cross-posted at Beautiful Wisdom.)
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