Pulse

Life is empty
Without pulsing love
In heart and mind

Spirals

Our paths through life
Spiral through moments
Pulled by an end

Fever

Firecrackers
Steal evening’s silence
New Year’s fever

Speed

Heart beats fast
Emotions flow
Overflow

Noise

A bird’s cry
Breaks the silence
Running thoughts

Anticipation

Rapid footsteps
In the frozen air
It smells of snow

Resilience

Two flakes
Falling down
As one

Reverie

I dreamed of you
In the evening hours
Till late morning

Ephemerality

A snowflake one’s life
In its ephemeral dance
Carried by the wind

Flash

A morning sprint
After the metro
Cold-freezing light

Duality

One needs a friend
As well a lover
Within same mind

Deafness

Words echo
Heart’s emptiness
Deaf music

Chaos

The more I search
The more the chaos
I stopped searching

Blossoms

Cherry blossoms
Into Christmas days
Trees’ buoyancy

Return

Heavy raindrops
Dive into the sea
Returning home

Dawns

Birds singing
Nature’s poems
Cloudy dawns

Insomnia

The void inside
Echoes random thoughts
In night’s abyss

Impatience

Checking the mailbox
For a wished message
For long unreceived

Mirroring

In her blue eyes
The sea found itself
Deeply mirrored

Unity

One doesn’t count
A rose’s petals
But its beauty

Blossoms

Heart’s petals
Into the breeze
Love’s blossoms

Solitude

One present
Under the tree
Unopened

Confinement

World created rules
For the display of feelings
To tame the boundless

Resurrection

Closed in my temple
I forgot the taste of love
Feeling its week pulse

Ageless

An old couple
Kissing while walking
Ageless deep love

Snowdrifts

I see life
As a snowflake
Touching snow

Timeness

Life cuts deeper
The light seems dimmer
One year older

Love

Love crystalizes
Feelings in the winter days
Into heart’s snowflakes

Infinitives

To learn
To forgive
To love

Castles

Just a daydream
The castles ones builds
Into thin air

Joy

One night
Or one lifetime
Joy preludes

Art

One prepares
For his life’s fight
Peacefully

Gardening

A gardener cuts deep
Into a rose's being
To harness beauty

Smile

A rainbow
Without raindrops
Heaven’s smile

Symphony

Awaken
By morning birds
Groovy sounds

The Hopper

Early ghost
Crossing the path
Hopping rook

Roses

One looks for a rose
And finds the spins
That lead to the rose

Counterbalance

A heart pulling
Another heart’s weight
An angel’s touch

Christmas Wish

I wish I’d find
The words to her heart
A bridge for years

White Christmas

Spend this Christmas
With me in your heart
And let it snow

Waiting

A small pine tree
Awaits in window
Christmas’ spirit

Home

An elevator
And Christmas' wings wide spread
Bring me anew home

Disorientation

Trees smell of spring
Birds call for mating
In mid December

Skylight

One carries the light
Stars set upon his pathway
Formed constellations

Spells

Under wind's spell
Stars swing in the air
Christmas candles

Innocent Years

In the raising snow
Grandpa carries a pine tree
On the long way home

Snowflakes

Snows in my mind
As well in my heart
Each raindrop a snowflake

Coldness

One feels the whispers
Of eternal coldness
In each second passed

Steps

Coming or going
In the falling snow
All steps look the same

Steps

Soft steps on the floor
Turn love into memories
Never turning back

Freedom

A snowflake is free
Of what was and what might be
Floating now moments

Transformation

One loves
Until love
Dissolves

Flow

One thousand dreams
Flow to the same point
An endless dream

Echo

I echo the voice
Of thousands unheard lovers
In search of beloved

Precious

Your laughing tears
Falling in my palm
My heart’s diamonds

Wish

I wished you were here
The candle to my darkness
Purifying light

Travelers

If our paths crossed
Why keep the distance
It’s the same road

Labyrinth

You have the keys
To my humble home
Each verse a door

Penumbra

A fuzzy layer
Between darkness and lightness
Of interaction

Quest

Looking for a soul
So we can mirror the lights
In each other’s hearts

Blessings

Her tremored voice
Breaks into warm tears
Oh grandmother

Freeze

Snowflakes on pavement
Hold moments into a freeze
Falling one by one

Blushes

Snowflakes on her skin
Turn each move into blushes
Sensitive touches

Reunion

Three generations
Meet at confluence of times
To feel one Christmas

Serenade

Celestial music
For two blazes of cold fire
Silenced serenade

[Unnamed]

I'm a dreamer
Because I believe
In pure magic

Barriers

It's our egos
That outstand our wish
For happiness

Skating

Joyous people
Moving on thin ice
Each move a step

Basis

Mathematicians
Like old time poets seek
Connecting all things

Survivor

I wear my scars
Content with my past
I had survived

Love

One falls in love
Just only one time
Next time love's there

Bareness

A child's first steps
On the melting ice
A mother's smile

The Skating Queen

Her fugitive smile
Brings memories back to life
Spring love in winter

Grasp

One loses
What one can't grasp
A whole life

Magic

An old plate
A skating ring
Life's magic

Confluence

Warm lights on ice
Bump into each other
Rivers of people

Mastery

A master's wish
Immortality
Through his skills-art

Beauty

Dark hair blue eyes
Her definition
Simple beauty

Glimpse

Her solitude
In a sketched grimace
Unheard story

Music

In steps of music
One note links to another
So our soul's likeness

One

One falls
One stands up
One smiles

Live

Live your life
Love will find you
Where you are

Ends

Love ends
When one stops
Believing

Egos

I like you
But your ego
Outcasts mine's

Flow

Look at those storks
Stepping through life’s flow
Unaffected

Dive

One swallow in dive
Followed by another one
Going with all heart

Midnight

Between stations
The town seems asleep
Late sleepwalkers

Stillness

Nothing to hear
But the nervous wind
Falling asleep

Floating

A polar bear stuck
Letting go or still trying
To hold to the ice

Freshness

December roses
Imbue an old man’s spirit
Rolling wonder thoughts

Counting

One thousand candles
Two thousand mulled wine glasses
Three thousand shed-lights

Flight

An owl’s long wings
Over the market
Shadowing lights

Fireside

Trees are burning
Through Christmas markets
Loughs and mulled wine

Ramblings

A crow’s cry
In morning walk
Empty talk

Addiction

With her storm is near
Without her no sunny days
One settles in storm

Ice-Cold

Her warm eyes
In reckless fight
Cold weapons

Sailing

Without a port
To anchor within
One sails pointless

Mocking Birds

Mocking a bird’s steps
Without observing its flight
Glimpse of own’s ego

Wisdom

Doubt everything
But not your heart’s tongue
Learn its wisdom

Poison

Poisonous gifts
Ten times more toxic
For giver’s soul

Completeness

Without his crew
A captain is lost
On his own ship

Life

Moving with the sun
Resting with moon's mirroring
Life perpetuates

Boxes

A bunch of boxes
Resume one's life
To posterity

Unknown

Not knowing your heart
My heart tries to know itself
In hundreds verses

Whom

Whom would you love?
The man of many faces
Or hundred verses

Frozen

Under blanket
My heart still freezes
Without your heart

Flight

A dragonfly’s wings
Frozen for posterity
Its flight in heavens

[Unnamed]

I’d fall in love
With you this winter
Beloved snowflake

Happiness

A kid’s happiness
Between first fluffy snowflakes
Winter’s warm stillness

Snowflakes

Fat rolling snowflakes
Under streets’ moving nightlights
One year of waiting

Timing

Right temperature
Right consistency of clouds
For the first snowflakes

Misact

After rain the sun
Forgot of its appearance
On the daily show

Coldness

Over the city
White smoke leaves building’s funnels
Winter's warm breathing

Flames

Making a wish
Lightning a candle
A warm feeling

Awakening

A tomcat stretching
Over armchair’s boundaries
Woke up in the fall

Marks

In open minds
Like in open books
Each leaves a mark

Sailing

In vicissitude
The mark of intelligence
Sailing with the wind

Noise

The only green leaves
In the trees before my home
Five noisy parrots

Seasonal

In an empty room
A Christmas tree and presents
Make a full household

Moonlight

A beer with close friends
The evening becomes midnight
The moon takes me home

Reflections

Reflections of you
Scattered across memories
Flakes on lustrous ice

Sailing

To sit lost in thoughts
Is to find yourself sailing
In unknown waters

Torchers

To love till last flame
And kindle another heart
Is to carry fire

Insanity

Too much craziness
Can spoil the spirit of man
And bring its freedom

Haiku

One writes haikus
Because one wonders
Simple moments

Senseless

I’d drink all wine
Till all’s forgotten
Though one awakes

The Wild Swan

A black swan stole
My heart in May’s night
And gone was she

Cast Away

A stranded soul
Hope has no echo
When love is gone

Intersection

An orange robin
Crossing a blue barn-swallow
Morning after rain

Emptiness

Deep silence
With fall's passing
Nothing left

It’s Funny...

It’s funny to see faces
Turning back from one’s scars,
And not few the cases
They carry deeper mars;

It’s funny to see people
Carrying scars like you,
Needing some compassion
But coming not from you;

It’s funny to be good
But never good enough,
To be misunderstood
For trying steal a laugh;

It’s funny to be ignored
For points trying to make,
Trying not to be bored
For convention’s sake;

It’s funny our nature
Running from what’s there,
Searching for adventure
And in the end not care…

Reflection

Whom do you see
In chunks of verses
Isn’t me at all

Greatness

I’m a small heart
Beating in this world
Drop in a sea

Divide et Impera

Hearts are conquered
Only when broken
Into pieces

Unrest

The rabid wind
Bites from Europe’s sky
Small little bites

Corruption

Noble ideals
On the last mile to success
Become corrupted

Vainness

For the start of love
Like for the end of winter
Lovers wait in vain

Grieve

The hymn of Marseille
Never echoed so mighty
The grieve of Paris

Entrapment

Enslaved little minds
By the means of religion
Don’t travel too far

Terror

Soulless faces
Attack innocents
In rightness’ name

Jump

A magpie
Springs up a slope
Jumping pie

Shelter

Yesterday magpies
A tree sheltered from the rain
Two ravens today

Rise

One day one touches
The stars in majestic flight
Second day the dirt

Freedom

A caged pigeon feels
As the owner approaches
The taste of freedom

Daydreaming

One step closer
Of touching the sky
Light daydreaming

Carnival

Colorful costumes
Flooding the inner city
Carnival voices

Precision

Poet’s tirade
Springs from not knowing
The name of things

Creation

First come the words
Then springs the poem
Full emptiness

Wishful Love

What is wishful love
But flight over rosebushes
Spins cutting through wings

Differences

Leaves look the same
But once we touch them
Seem different

Paper Craft

A sheet of paper
Each passerby leaves a mark
And takes a copy

Leaves

Solitary leaves
Taken away by the wind
Blended with the dust

Solitary Roads

I walked alone
Every given road
Carried my cross

Never Walk Alone

Never walk alone
The long roads bestowed to you
Marvels come in twos

Tired

All year running
After a missed chance
Wearisome ride

Remains

From gone loves
All that remained
Empty rhymes

Yellow

A Ginkgo tree’s leaves
Spread all over the backyard
Yellowish carpet

Randomness

Random leaves
From a tree's life
Autumn's touch

Words

Poet’s sore words
In feelings’ cauldron
Metamorphose

Salvation

If man’s salvation
Rests in the rise of machines
Where is his soul’s place

Rise

Deceived by present
One looks hopeful to future
The rise of machines

Nobody

Nobody cares
Of the mask you wear
Nobody sees

In Memoriam

The wings of music
Took them far into the sky
And made them angels

Waltz

On park’s alleys
Pairs move in circles
Chattering birds

Piety

The sky is my church
Nature's noise is my preaching
You are my angel

Rules

How blind the rules
That spoil a man’s mind
For convention

Perfection

Lack of perfection
Makes one perfect by itself
When acceptance comes

Intruders

Two daring pigeons
Went through the central station
Artful intruders

Nudity

The fresh-dyed white walls
Make from home a bigger place
Lighted nudity

Springtime

Sunlight’s caressing
In birds’ prolonged chattering
Spring in autumn dress

Beginner’s Mind

Daring to look
At life with new eyes
Beginner’s mind

Flight

The mind follows
The flurries of change
A flying kite

Cuddle

Shedding tree branches
Bump into each other’s leaves
Searching for support

The Complot

Five loudly crows
Flying in circle
Sprung on own way

Freeze

If love’s a firestorm
Burning with intensity
Why am I freezing

Leaves

Two magpies landing
In a deciduous tree
Returning old leaves

Praise

Once the poet puts
His muse on a pedestal
She's out of his reach

Fingerprints

On autumn’s alleys
One can easily follow
Tree’s fingerprints

Beauty

A candid rose
Once one knows its spins
Prices beauty

Waves

A field of rye
Under wind’s caress
A sea of green

Weavings

On an old chair
Alone with my thoughts
Caught in life’s threads

Blossoms

Cherry blossoms
In cold November
One longs in vain

Tragedies

The tragedy
Of losing a chance
What would have been

Icy Heralds

I felt their bites
Imprinted in flesh
The winter's near

Liveliness

A kid playing
With two fallen leaves
Returned to life

Estrangement

The fresh-dried leaves
The estranged odor
Of memories

Meltdown

I longed for her love
Until desires melted
Into nothingness

Shift

Young people deepened
In colorful devices
Usual autumn

Borders

A river's borders
Host different expectations
Still the same river

War and Peace

A man and his mind
Left alone in the same room
Friends or enemies

Wound

Mother's frank ardor
Describing her lost daughter
For long open wound

Values

An old man's life
Judged by his walking
Not by spirit

Glide

Ice-slippery
The roads of friendship
Winter chilling

Injustice

The silvery light
Makes no justice to these days
Golden-like autumn

Zombie Times

My hands are numb
Mind hardly rambles
A zombie's life

Haunted

A dozen leaves
Haunt an old oak’s sleep
Creepy tremors

Halloween

White-silver clouds
In full moon’s screening
Halloween ghosts

Glamour

Roses’ petals
Even when they fall
Carry glamour

Rules

One can't afford
Fall into his muse
Unless love's shared

Flow

Is it the river
That pushes into the sea
Or the sea's pulling

Chess

The pawns stumble
While the king’s a loaf
In bishops’ hands

Flurries

An old windmill
Purrs like a feline
Caressed by wind

Bridges

One tries to bridge
Gaps between wishes
And what's real

Life

A chain of breathes
Is given man to release
Into the deep blue

Foolishness

The wisdom we gained
Escapes not the foolishness
Of losing one's love

Wandering

Out of confusion
Mind wanders thousand valleys
To find the right path

Passage

From love to no love
One goes through toughest passage
In just an instant

The Gatekeepers

Yellowish trees
Withstand in darkness
Night's gatekeepers

Absence

I missed you last night
And all nights before
An eternity

Noise

The humming streets
Find no quietness
With the night's fall

Outreach

Branches in stairs
Climb between buildings
In reach of light

Last Stop

A dusty tram
Moves on life's long tracks
To last pit stop

Embrace

Yellow leaves
Touch the river
Last embrace

City Lights

Prolonged facades
Steal evening's brightness
Joyful windows

Cloudy Rhythms

The clouded sky
Rhythmic with the wind
Waves its blueness

The Lost Sea

Waves of young faces
Move lost between buildings
In the big city

Silence

And then comes silence
Its emptiness echoes blunt
Between waiting’s thoughts

Dew

The dew of one’s soul
Arising in autumn’s days
Glimpse of pure beauty

Recipe

Finding seeds of joy
In each little achievement
One plants happiness

Fragility

Between bushes
A rabbit tumbles
Spasmodic end

Divisions

Through ratios
Man represents life
To grasp the wholes

Garment

Waiting for winter
Its dress nature slowly weaves
Pastel-like clothes

Light

A bulb’s lightrays
Were never warmer
Lightened abode

Intentions

Noble intentions
Get lost in appearances
Like smoke between clouds

Stigma

My soul still carries
The weight of old chains’ irons
That seized my freedom

Madness

Dozen rabbits sprung
When an eagle scried in sky
Fast-maddening crowd

Reflection

So many dreams
Reflect the heavens
Down to the earth

Chains

Dull degradation
Of the humanlike spirit
A moment in chains

Haiku

Too many frogs
Sprung out of the pond
To croak and splash

Peace

To find his peace
One has to travel
Into the now

Chatters

Wings wide spread
In chattered flight
Magpies roam

Surrender

I take my faith
And kneel before stars
They’ll be my judge

Whispers

Oh my sweet spirit
Your wisdom whispers volumes
When you touch my lips

Autumn Days

The weights of time
Fall on my shoulders
Weary feelings

Mud

Murky the waters
In which heart shall find its peace
Mud settles with time

Flight

What are your dreams
Little butterfly?
Fly high fly high!

Humbleness

Running through its threads
A thought sensed its importance
Then laughed at itself

Last Verse

She wasn't there
To taste the sweetness
Of my caress

Transition

Last autumn leaves
Witness first snowflakes
Road to perdition

Synchronicity

The wheels of life
Drive souls on their paths
Toward crossroads

Sunrise

Morning’s dewdrops
Reflect the sunrise
In multitude

Déjà Vu

Autumn’s cold shudders
Embraced in the winter’s warmth
This time’s different

Ars Moriendi

A graceful snowflake
Roams in peaceful finitude
Enjoying each waft

Memento Mori

Dried old leaves once green
Pave the clod with their coldness
Lost eternity

Coldness

First snowflakes
In autumn’s green
Touch of cold

Verses

Verses’ cold purpose
Is to raise poet’s ego
To the crashing point

Apart

Opposite forces
Seem to hold our souls apart
Dull dance of nature

Gardening

First words penetrate
Then seeds get deeply planted
Flowers and weeds grow

Pawns

Reckless pawns
On a chessboard
Gods’ delight

Truth

From simple ripples
Can grow a wild tsunami
Truth dislocates flow

Freedom

What is true freedom?
Meditating in prison
Sensing no limits

Eternity

One wants to love
An eternity
In just one hour

Sunset

In one's sickness
One recognizes
Death’s cold calling

Innocence

My lost innocence
Reborn from its own ashes
A Phoenix of light

Weakness

In sickness
Recognizing
Own weakness

Invitation

Let's take a walk
In October's sun
Light brings color

Words

Words are too few
To express feelings
In a pen's turn

Nudity

In people's loughs
One sees their values
Unhid bareness

Vulnerability

How vulnerable
A person has to become
To gain beloved's trust

Gracefulness

Movement reveals grace
Though the real elegance
Comes from one's feelings

Muse

I found my muse
Into a black swan
Words flow naked

Tint

Without the pigments
Of own’s imagination
Life seems colorless

Shadows

On strangely lit roads
Shadows become huge monsters
A mice fast crossing

Distance

An old wolf seldom
Approaches a well-graced dam
Surrounded by wolves

Little Secret

The secret of love
Is to let egos dissolve
In the space between

Grace

A black swan dancing
With her wings spread to the sky
Time stops in movement

Antagonism

Bare reality
Can hardly cope with one’s wild
Imagination

The Pretender

Walks on broken hearts
Between fantasms of his past
The great pretender

Laziness

Morning spent in bed
Until dreams melt into dreams
No will to wake up

Glamour

Two glasses of wine
On a candle lit table
Hands hold together

Wings

In adversity
An angel might break her wings
To grow much stronger

                                 [To C.]

Rituals

Our intelligence
Leads us to life’s deep answers
Still rites take over

Hunger

One feeds with stories
The hunger for living one
Till one famishes

Chains

One’s heart desires
In time limit one’s freedom
Invisible chains

Half-Awake

One awakes
And knows was sleeping
Still dreaming

La Vie en rose

Pink-tinged roses
Taste autumn’s weather
No vie en rose

Steps

All the steps one makes
To find himself on the road
Just one step further

Friendship

In nature’s embrace
Man found answers to his quest
Forgotten friendship

The Rose

A wild red rose
Adored from afar
Few endure thorns

Centeredness

An old dusted chair
Sits in a corner alone
People passing by

Impatience

An empty corner
Awaits for the Christmas tree
First one of many

Forces

Sea’s abyss attracts
Souls repulsed by worldly life
Caught under sea’s spell

Ripples

One throws a stone
On lake’s smooth surface
Ripples still spread

Play

Squirrels playing
Around an oak tree
Leaves jump away

Armoured

A dragonfly’s wings
Covered in morning dewdrops
Ready for battle

The Seeker

Between lake’s ripples
The fisherman long searches
His alter ego

Potential

An apple young shoot
There lies the potential of
Bearing fruits one day

Success

One sees the results
But not the dreams towards them
Windshears change pathways

Debt

If I could touch
The heart of one soul
I’d paid my debt

Maya

At perception’s gates
Intelligence precedes form
Grasped reality

Gnothi Seauton

Know yourself
And heaven’s gates
Wide open

Gnosis

The flames of life
Dissolve human’s soul
Polished diamonds

Agraphos Nomos

Reuniting
Two broken pieces
Unwritten law

Flames

In my being
Burns a part of you
Pervading flames

Roses

In each broken soul
Bloom the deep scars of one’s quest
Heavenly roses

Fall

October’s falling
Into velvet November
A red December

Labyrinths

Understanding stops
Where one negates his feelings
A closed labyrinth

Rhetorical

If one doesn’t care
With whom awakens mornings
What good all the dreams?

Late Summer

Summer’s warmness
Still shows its magic
The final act

Mourning

Dimmer the light
That touches the leaves
On the last road

The Wall

When walls fall down
People find freedom
One step away

Dominos

The hope of freedom
Stirred inner revolutions
Echoes still persist

Freedom

The wings of freedom
Within an old radio
All of a flutter

The Swallow

A blue barn swallow
Sheltered under my window
Not frightened of rain

Infinity

Tangent to one’s soul
Infinity’s an abyss
Beyond perception

Traces

Where do thoughts go?
Traces on paper
Lasting footprints

Twilight

Indescriptible
The sunset before my eyes
A sunrise of thoughts

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

Existence

If existence
Is life’s disaster
We’re miracles

Rocket Man

A fast rocket
Through Danube Delta
Above the waves

Creation

From non-being
The universe came
Into being

The Black Sea

High waves crashing
Against tetrapods
The Black Sea's rage

Greatness

Sky’s immensity
So many great minds beholds
One mind grasps the sky

Finitude

Before my mind
The bare infinite
Untouchable

Span

From the depth of me
To the width of universe
Rhythm governs change

White Night

Sharing a sunset
As one mind to the other
The sunrise awaits

Divine

A cup of lime tea
The universe before me
Same divine essence

Emptiness

The emptiness
Of human nature
Absorbs the sky

The Mooncat

A cat walking
On the rooftop
Half moon rising

Reverie

Lost in the deep blue
From my childhood’s dreams
With you in my mind

Starry Night

A bright starry night
The leaves in wind’s caressing
Sound like rain spatters

Theater

Two marionettes
Taking a warmless dinner
Long-dusted screenplay

Dreams

Waking up mornings
Hoping to fulfill a dream
A dream in a dream

If

If words could change
The image of me
Time worths writing

Marching

White swans marching
On foggy waters
A black swan’s grasp

Stillness

A horse galloping
Fallowed by a fast engine
Countryside’s stillness

Afternoon Nap

Between silver clouds
The sun loses itself
Into a deep sleep

Rainy Days

Moon’s lonely cry
Into august days
A chant of love

Rainbow

Rainbow's curving
Under the blue sky
A lightful bridge

Curves

Sky’s curving
Under the light
A rainbow

Magic

After thunderstorm
A rainbow shows its magic
Nature’s revival

Reverse

Raindrops leave the pond
Raising high to the heaven
The clouds dissipate

Sinful Years

Fallen snowflakes
Touch plumtree blossoms
Early spring’s sin

Semantics

If late winter
Or an early spring
A tree cares less

Freedom

Where chaos ends
And order begins
Freedom is home

The Cat-Box

A curious cat
Jumps into an empty box
A moving cat-box

Moonlight

A passionate moon
Stumbles between an asp’s leaves
Drunken by beauty

Tango

On the rings of life
It takes two for a tango
Passion within rhythm

Sunset

A purple-red sky
Scattered between shades of blue
A cloud on fire

Memories

Moving with the wind
Between ocean and mountains
Scattered memories

Smiles

A simple smile
Can break the silence
Or ruin dreams

Green

The summer green
Glitters in the rain
Touched by thunder

Fishing

A carp awaken
Into a stinging nightmare
Arches in the air

Feathers

Colorful feathers
Left behind by the summer
Estranged memories

Blind Spots

Ignoring people
Just because they are different
The blind side of life

Egoism

One speaks of heavens
And cherishes all wisdom
But forgets to live

Praying

If one speaks from heart
The sky will hear the praying
Even when silent

Goliath

Anchored in the ground
Upholds the celestial vault
A giant oak tree

Sweep

A squirrel crosses
The pathway between raindrops
Gracious twists and turns

Waltz

Umbrellas move
Through the falling rain
Waltz in the wind

Luggage

Dusted suitcases
Move along the crowded streets
Carried old luggage

Emptiness

I felt an angel
Touching my soul in her flight
Deepened emptiness

Devil's Choice

Avoiding unknowns
Certainty is the devil
That lingers within

Disturbed

Disturbed hearts
Candid feelings
To extremes

If

If I ever loved
It was a pure dream of love
Perishing with years

Deception

On the dance floor
Between clashing realms
Deception rules

Winter Blossoms

Ice flowers blossom
In the morning’s warm embrace
A pale fire lingers

The Way

One walks the way
Not knowing its reach
One has faith though

Truth

Distant truth
A mind’s mirage
Far from heart

Fusion

The whistling wind
Joins the whispering fire
Two breathes as one

Love

No fuel can burn
Like the scent of love
Dissolving hearts

Welcome

I welcome the mind
That can accept to vanish
In the midst of love

The Messenger

A nightingale
Voices in heavens
Sound song of love

Patience

The laws of nature
Laugh at man’s lost innocence
Patience prevails force

Dust

One targets the stars
Until one becomes the dust
Falling from one’s dream

Sips

One presumes to know
The wellspring of one’s knowing
A glass of water

Compass

The moral sense
A compass for storms
Pointing the light

Musica Universalis

Candles fill the sky
Carried away by the wind
Sounds of the spheres

Wisdom

From wise or fool
One learns to be wise
And when act fool

Teardrops

The rain spillovers
Into a sea of wind bursts
Heavenly teardrops

Wild Roses

Fields of wild roses
Spread over the Red Mountain
One settles to one

Magic

Cutting an onion
Tears flavor the well-cooked food
A smile brings sweetness

Boxes

One escapes a box
To find other bigger box
Nested illusions

Strategy

The dragon confronts
A tiger stalks behind trees
Masters of terror

Control

Man raises dams
To stop sea’s fury
Then typhoons come

Walls

Man resists change
By building fences
Around own thoughts

Distance

A war brings distance
Where none should ever exist
Disconnected hearts

Balance

Two dragons fighting
One pushes the other pulls
Moving in circle

Existance

I create
Thus I exist
In my art

Haiku

Condensing words
Limitless grasping
In expression

Parenting

A parent’s wit
Is to make kids grow
With pairs of wings

Falling Stars

Far beyond the Earth
A soul’s looking for a star
To find its way home

Duality

A mountain moves
With the rushing streams
Still remains still

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Whether we see
Monsters or angels
We will be right

Limitless

Amazed by greatness
A human mind’s grasp extends
Beyond its limits

Travelling

By mind we travel
From sun to the end of times
No limits one knows