Blossoms

Flowers’ openness
Embracing life as a whole
Simple old beauty

Chorus

Oak leaves’ tremor
In the cold sunlight
Voices of fate

Lights

Games of lights
Over Rhein's sky
Fireworks

Pastel

Red-yellow green
On a blue background
Pastel landscape

Values

Without effort
Cheap commodity
The love one gains

Fisherman’s Dream

The fish not captured
Bigger than all other fish
One counts as trophies

Mirages

Seeing the future
Traps one in expectations
Forgotten present

Empty House

In an empty house
The potentiality
Of being a home

The Builder

Back and forth
Awareness moves
Errand mind

Pointness

The moon points
The way to the stars
Pointless point

Flow

Thoughts flow
Emptiness
To fill

Emptiness

One longs for love
Fully filled teacups
Will spill over

Dimensions

When stars are just stars
And the sky just a blue arch
Life’s dimensionless

Undercurrents

The sea looks calm
Suddenly one’s brought
Far from the shores

Heaven

If heaven’s inside
Far faraway rambles man
To find its essence

Odors

In the lime tea
Universe’s breath
Meets mind’s perfume

Full Moon

Desires rise
With the red full moon
Illusions fall

Lost

One missed the station
Where heaven’s gates were open
Lost between cloudscapes

Ephemerality

Ephemeral
Magic in the blue
Butterfly’s flight

Breeze

Each word is hope
Flowing through my mind
Late summer breeze

Coldness

Cold indifference
Torments a lover’s heartfelt
Freeze-boiling feelings

Choices

Many of us can chose
The paths we follow in life
But not whom we love

Play

Moon looks different
In yearly revolution
Life's a play of light

Noise

Central station's noise
Swinging with each passing train
People on the run

Intimacy

A young couple
Kissing for an hour
Love's young fever

Ageless

Childish in my thought
I look at life with new eyes
Never growing old

Succession

One drop hits the sink
A second follows shortly
One waits for the third

Projections

Looking for love
I found its shadows
All reflections

[Unnamed]

Silenced by your eyes
I seek to break the silence
But words fade away

Fusion

If for gods’ sake
Souls were split apart
Love reunites

Blossoms

Without his love
She's a rose blossom
In wintertime

Touch

Without her love’s touch
A floating island is man
In an arctic sea

Fear

A swallow set free
Returns to captivity
Afraid of unknown

Aground

The warm-freezing bed
A distant floating island
In the sea of dreams

Light

The one who lighted
A candle in the darkness
Knows the vim of light

Time-Lapse

Autumn’s green leaflets
Look dusty in the sunlight
Torn between moments

Treasure

Sealed a lover’s lips
With the signet of his love
Own’s treasure keeper

Music

I stopped to listen
The rain dripping between leaves
Heavenly organ

Patterns

People let patterns
Mold into their threads of life
Until become one

Love

Love seems so sour
Unbeliever's eyes
Search for sweetness

Tenderness

The smile of wisdom
Caressing the tears of love
Limpid tenderness

Wandering

Dried out autumn leaves
Let themselves in winds’ cold sway
Into the cloudlands

Progress

One can find progress
Only by sharing his views
To open like minds

Force

What’s conquered by force
Will pull its strength to resist
Two broken spirits

Lessons

Every single day
Life teaches us a story
If we would listen

Shortcuts

Looking for shortcuts
We miss the meanings of life
Road by road we’re built

I thought

I thought
A pure soul can conquer all
From what’s great to what’s small,
That it can spread an ounce of light
In what is wrong and never right.

I thought
Through hard work one can succeed
And plant in every heart a seed
Of knowing life, the way we are,
To rise to stars into the far.

I thought
I’ll find someday a heart like mine
To mirror all that is sublime,
In our corner full of peace
To feel the power of a kiss.

I thought
I’d find the way to heaven
By means of power of the seven,
Transcending life and maybe death
With a master’s sacred bless.

I know
Childish were my thoughts
And much too few my pure oughts;
There’s a truth in every dream of man
When dreamed again, again, again…

Growth

We both grow in love
By holding each other’s hands
To our wounded hearts

Discovery

The path to one’s heart
Lies in mind’s little delights
Slices of one’s life

Attraction

Two electrons
Stripped off of feelings
In attraction

Toast

Raising the glass wine
For what now wasn't meant to be
No place for sorrow

Lashing

My thirst for knowing
Lashes against the high shores
Of one’s all-knowing

Gliding

Through the fingers
The sand glides away
Stale clepsydra

Silence

Gazing the blue sky
Asking the stars for guidance
Silencing stillness

Poison

Misunderstanding
Sour your lips in midst of love
Illusory bane

Symmetry

Two swans mirrored
Into a curved dive
Waves of beauty

Elegance

In its graceful dance
A black swan’s in flight passing
Swept me off my feet

Togetherness

A dusty road
Follows the Danube
Into moonlight

Surrender

A bamboo thicket
Resists the shivering wind
Into surrender

Dacian Draco

A ferocious wolf
Embodied in a dragon
Flutters from the past

Struggle

Heart is rebelling
Mind tries to accept the facts
Between thunderstorms

On Danube

Jerky waves touching
The shores in prolonged whispers
Love’s bewildering

Existence

An oak’s majesty
Shoots cannot force existence
To become ripe trees

Habitude

Once the mystery
Remains for long forgotten
The magic is lost

Artificiality

One can glue a life
From most wonderful moments
A soulless image

Questions

If heart has mistaken
A smile caught in the blue
Is that mind’s awaken
Of something that it knew;

Now I start to question
That moment when I found
A warm revelation
That changed me from the ground:

Was it candid beauty
That caught the heart of me,
Or eyes’ pure nudity -
The light I thought I see?

Or was her timidity
Hidden under a smile -
That sweet serenity
I wondered for a while…

Maybe her soft gesture
While walking like the wind,
Calling to adventure
My timid simple mind…

Was it the night’s whispers
Descending from above,
Sound in angels’ whistlers
For a wonder called love?

Or, was just a moment
For me to realize
That my heart was dormant -
So I just… fantasized?!...

Migration

Cold scarlet clouds
Sliced by morphing formations
Wild ducks on the run

Games

Like children in games
Grownups play with their feelings
Hide but seek the truths

Heartless

Searching for my heart
Footprints between fallen leaves
Bring me no further

Sweetness

Sour cherry brandy
Touches my lips in long sips
One feels home’s sweetness

Vulnerability

Opening one’s heart
To let another heart pulse
A two-way main street

Silence

Bowing to the sky
The reminders of the day
Silenced by the wind

Elusion

We imagine love
As a parade through heavens
While torching in hell

Sky Lantern

Tired of fighting
For a dying idea
A sky lantern fades

Poorness

Now all I have
Is my lonely mind
My heart got lost

Solitude

The whispers of love
Echo under the full moon
A solitary road

Morning Nap

Falling fast asleep
Under a willow’s shadow
Frozen fishing rod

Splashes

Sudden ripples
On the smooth surface
Carps' leaping - splash

Chrysanthemums

White chrysanthemums
Taste the first teardrops of dew
Velvet-like fringes

Flight

The wings of time
Over horizons
Eternal change

Raindrops

Raindrop by raindrop
Rainstorms rapid escalate
Alike misfortunes

Rage

The shouting wind
Along the waters
Rolling ripples

Words

One looks at my words
With an unbeliever’s smile
Overnight offsprings

Someday

Someday my writing
Will be traces in the air
Fading with the clouds

Emptiness

Words fill the void
Between passing thoughts
More emptiness

Shelter

Even a hermit
Has found a warm sheltering
In someone’s cold heart

Wilderness

Mind’s wilderness
Before seeker’s soul
Steps make the path

Shades

Words fall like leaves
Under autumn’s touch
Colorful shades

Division

What good deep feelings
If one can’t find a pathway
Between two half hearts

Present

It’s time to let past
Rest in its shadowing graves
The end of mourning

Dreams

The egg-shaped moon
Hatches dreams of love
Scrambled feelings

Hope

Waves of people
Take the roads to North
A sea of hope

Perfection

Candid perfection
Hides itself in now moments
Gold sand in the wind

Walls

Same pleasant music
Freezes my mind in movement
Invisible walls

Autumn

Moving in circles
Over the dry fallen leaves
Chestnuts roll over

Echos

Crickets - voices
Echo between stars
Barks in afar

Regrets

Autumn nights' coldness
Awakens trees' old regrets
Last glimpse of summer

Jewels

His kingdom jewel
Splendid shines in the moonlight
The only daughter

Truth

The pale truth lingers
On mind’s untrustworthy shores
One wave at a time

Patience

When the mud settles
The lake reveals its secrets
One must have patience

Counting

One kiss in winter
Two souls loving each other
Three lives in autumn

Fire

Two souls’ fires
Wire together
Two lives as one

Wounds

Looking for her wings
An angel crashed down crying
Tears washing the wounds

Meanings

Am I the last
Who looks for meanings
In cold raindrops?

Emotions

Simple emotions
Bring man out of his darkness
Bridges to heavens

Time

One second moves
Into another
Pushy seconds!

Fate

Five hungry pikes
Found their morning fate
A nice dinner

Sharing

A beggar thanking
For an unexpected meal
The joy of sharing

Glimmer

Deep into your soul
I saw the light of kindness
Why hide that glimmer?

Dissonance

A pale illusion
Lightens the sky from afar
An astray cricket

Astray

An astray dog
Looking for a place
That feels like home

Mirrors

The lake a mirror
When one gazes its depth
The bottom’s revealed

Sailing

The fast-moving boat
Cuts the waves through the high grass
Sunrise on the lake

The Danube

The lighten Danube
Glitters in its warm waving
Waves feeling the shores

Fishing

A sudden ripple
Awaken from reverie
Searching a fish’s tail