TWO HAIKU دوهایکو

I

Hollow ash

Ash of the wind

Stare silent

II

You sure didn't ask

When I sure didn't answer

Stay silent

BASHO DAY

MATSUO BASHO

b 1644

d 28 November 1694

Haiku poet Edo Period

Basho uete

Mazo nikumo ogi no

Futaha kana/

My new banana tree

First sign of something I loathe

A miscanthus bud

In the midst of the plain

Sings skylark

Free of all things

-BASHO

FREE SKYLARK

COMES TO MY WINGS

TO WARM UP HER WINGS

--F.S.

DREAM CATCHER IN BREEZE

DREAM CATCHER
DREAMS
CATCHING DREAMS
IN BREEZE
and breeze falling in dreams

RED PRELUDE

IT IS A WORD TO PRELUDE
IT IS A PRELUDE TO WORD
IT IS A RED PRELUDE

red prelude 1985

IN THE OLD OF THE DAY

day by day by day by day by day hy day by day by  day by day by day by day by day by day by day by ...

IT IS ONLY A DAY
THAT YOU MAKE A DAY
IT IS ALL THE DAY OF THE DAY

THE FISH IN LIGHTNESS

THE FISH IN LIGHTNESS OF A BUTTERFLY WING
IN THE OPEN WING OF
BUTTER
FLY

AND WEEPING WAVE

AND THE FISH WAS HUMBLE

WHEN PLAYING

THE WAVE

WEEPING FISHER(WO)MAN

AND THE CAUGHT FISH
BY A RESTLESS FISHER(WO)MAN
WHO IS WEEPING AGAIN