Magic

Touches of hands
Like madness of hearts
Soundless magic

Tenderness

Fresh mistletoe
Two kids’ warm kisses
Through adulthood

Fashion

All my shirts
Look better on you
Same does my heart

Counting

Miscounting seconds
In fast rhythm of heartbeats
Time breaks in kisses

Fall

Between two clouds
The moon plays bowling
Two stars falling

Curves

Travelling afar
On broken geodesics
Time’s bending within

Attraction

With all force
Holding to a rose
A butterfly

Seaside

The sea in a rage
Displays its dark blue colors
Seeing much of you

Burst

A bunch grass blades
Pulled their heads from the snow
Aiming to the sky

Promenade

In pen’s jaunting
Looking for dovetails
Just love birds

Bowing

Old oak bent
Toward the wood
Solitude

Haiku

Writing haikus
I started linking
The gaps in thoughts

Chaos

In a dark corner
Tall yellow chrysanthemums
Disheveled morning

Fireworks

In an old house
All my blessed childhood
Scene with scene

Laughter

Black cat hidden
In winding snowdrifts
Schrödinger laughs

Fireside

In fire's whispers
Jumping between dreams
Catching all fire

Memories

Stove’s coziness
Pulls into childhood
Jumps between years

Drifting

Drifting through the snow
Steps follow the shortest path
Away from the frost

Roses

A rose found purpose
In opening its petals
Rosebuds all over

Serenade

Concert of stars
On a winter sky
Who’s listening

Haiku

Pond splash-jumping frogs
And blue butterfly sneezes
Bring one no further

Wreckage

A frozen apple
Pushed around by a slight wind
In a sea of snow

Awaken

Steamy apple pie
With a touch of cinnamon
A push out of bed

Eruption

Chunks of ceiling
Dismantled in fire
Night’s volcano

Embrace

In room’s coldness
Embracing the bed
With all being

Fire

Hearts melted
In snowballs fight
Winter’s fire

Speed

Feet ice burning
Speed on cold carpet
A morning’s touch

Christmas

Beliefs bring the stars
Closer to our hearts
Let it be Christmas

Christmas Morning

From the warm blanket
Just the nose sniffs the coldness
Steamed Christmas dishes

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve
Long I’ve been wishing
For your embrace

Whiffs

Houses breathing
Through the frostiness
The fire whispers

Frozen

Small waxed apples
Tremble in winter
Winds’ cold whiskers

Richness

An apple branch
Never been richer
As Christmas tree

Carols

Joyful carols
Murmured by the wind
Christmas is near

Branches

The fire leaping
Into a night’s quest
From branch to branch

Upside Down

From up to down
It took a second
And a slip

Seeds

When one’s love becomes
Suffering spilling over
Water nourishing

Love Letter

Your smile’s marbles
Would be just enough
For a new home

Change

The world can change
In one humble hour
In good or worse

Art

One carves through stone
To define his self
Unfinished work

Dive

Snow banks sizzling
In a sea of white
Jumping black cat

Frozen

Frozen leaves
Silent witness
Winter’s creeps

Whitewash

Previous day’s marks
Were covered by night’s snowflakes
Winter masks its trails

White Grins

A snowman grins
From a spooky yard
Deep winter bites

Glitters

Fallen snowflakes
Glitter like diamonds
In morning’s sun

Blossoms

Possibilities
Hidden in each bare blossom
Till their time would come

Duration

How long the silence
Hidden in an hour
How deep its echo

Riddle

Came in silence
Gone with the first noise
Half-face glowing

Frame

Full of wisdom
One escapes the truth
Be lit-empty

Ligtness

In an empty room
A small candle lights
Days before Christmas

Traces

When does life stop
Casting illusions
Marks in the sand

Odd

Where have I lost
That rose on the way
Uneven count

Division

What feeds the soul
But not the heart
Whole but apart

What feeds the heart
But not the soul
Apart not whole

Solace

Old twisted tree
Deadening in wind
Young branches

Flight

Seagulls fly over
The lightened Christmas market
Shadows of the night

Imbalance

Swept off my feet
By the waves of cold
Burning like hell

Seeds

Is the unreal
Or the irrational
That makes one absent

Ripples

Time ripples
Beneath the surface
Of static life

Fog

Dense fog raising
Over the river
Smoky funnels

Reflections

A broken mirror
Reflects the same old sunset
In each tiny shard

Refuge

The strength of one
In strength of many
A shelter finds

Perfume

A dried-out red rose
Still relinquishes odors
Of what might have been

Cruelty

Heartless the heart
That looks for own proofs
Of forgiveness

Gaiety

Fancy pansies
Cast in night’s coldness
Moonlight glimmer

Slaughter

Red rose petals
Scattered in the snow
Winter bloodshed

Buoyancy

Pink magnolia buds
Covered by icy crystals
Deep frozen lightness

Flight

Wild ducks flying
Over Rhine’s waters
In-flight traces

Shuffle

Fallen leaves
In wind's whispers
Rearranged

Dust

Is it the dust
Settling on your wings
It’s time to fly

Embrace

Into her arms
Night felt a second
Damn waking hour

Ghosting

Dust ghosting
Between morning’s shades
Comforting waft

Tremors

Tremored old voice
Waiting for a call
Birthday wishes

Blossoms

If there were
No blossoms falling
Weren’t there beauty

Fencing

Mind’s a sword
Cutting through thin air
Embodied words

Emptiness

A house is empty
Without somebody to love
Half-hearted echoes

Haiku

Thunderlike haiku
The ultimate illusion
Of bare perfection

Sense

If one can't save
A rose from winter
What's autumn for

Mastery

For the others
Each feels a master
But for thyself

Run

In a gallop
Thousand dried leaves
Rolling over

Flutter

Swept by the wind
Thousand stars flutter
Christmas is near

Quest

No candle lights
Unless catches fire
Search for that fire

Light

Too few lights
Attempt to shine
If they’ve tried

Perfection

Some things aren’t born
To reach perfection
Are still perfect

Blindness

Walking blind
Into own light
Gods’ batter

Suffering

What it hurts
Is the idea
Of emptiness

Estrangement

One feels other’s heart
Pulsing away from his own
Still hearing echoes

Windows

Sometimes freedom
Is to have windows
To look beyond

Rattle

Parrots rattling
Cologne’s chequered hue
In cloudy days

Blankness

Benumbed by days
Of clay-cold stillness
Absent chuckles

Flight

A blue barn swallow
Cuts the sky into two halves
Which is up which down

Gloss

From outside the pond
Mirrors life’s complexities
From inside movement

Thaw

Dripping icicles
Winter’s fearful clutches
Melt with the sunrise

Screeches

Frost icicles
Screech in the moonlight
Old snowman

Frost

From autumn’s leaves
To winter’s blossoms
Frost’s kingdom sprawls

Roars

Anfield’s roars
Wake up players
From the graves

Blossoms

Blossoms one finds
In old books hidden
Seldom alive

Spring

A blossom can melt
The thick ice of a lifetime
One calls it springtime

Thieves

Every given day
Stealing a bit of the sky
For own survival

Trespassing

Open curtains
Let morning’s rays pass
Uninvited

Fencing

When the sword rests
The pen finds meanings
In mind’s fencing

Dive

Learn swimming
In the deep waters
Of your heart

Winterly

Cold orange sky
Forth my humble pen
Dreams of summer

Plunder

Tentacles spread
Over the city
Smokey monsters

Craft

Chopping wood
Makes one no chopper
Nor truth bearer

Blossoms

Don’t judge the blossoms
For their untimely falling
Who knows his measure

Joy

What’s more joyful
Than the first snowflakes
The first snowman

Love

What is love
But separation
From the fiddle

Spring

Is it one book
One man or one truth
The source of all

Descent

Falling blossoms
Besmirched the pond
With their beauty

Watchers

Hill cherry trees
Witness the winter
Till’ they blossom

Blossoms

In winter’s midst
Cherish your blossoms
Plump cherry tree

Act

What will be man’s play
When machines will want to write
Their own cold stories

Flow

Sensing the stream
By the raising steam
Branching out lums

Whistles

Whistling echoes
Of first winter days
Tunes dully played

Freedom

With fear in heart
How could man grasp
Heavens’ freedom

Sailing

Last falling leaf
An arch in the wind
On its last trip

Loss

From all richness
Only thing to lose
One’s dignity

Emptiness

Empty blue sky
Before Eifel’s crests
More emptiness

Frozen

Lifeless butterfly
Caught in pines’ amber
Still a butterfly

Run

Running after
Dreamy butterflies
Dream with no end

Dive

Little blue bird
Dive into the midst
Of nothingness

Footsteps

No marks
Of my footsteps
Higher tides

Bedtime

Dreaming the bed
Being in bed’s warmth
Dreams’ coziness

Flow

Let love flow
Like blood through your vains
Be its vessel

Roads

On roads to nowhere
Many travel to somewhere
Then wish they weren’t there

Silvery

Night’s silvery clouds
Still felt in mornings long hours
Cold scent of mulled wine

Autumnal

A bunch oak leaves
Melting in the sun
One’s autumn days

Seeds

The chaos held
Deep within our hearts
The seeds of change

Foolishness

Foolish the lover
Searching for a bit of hope
In all that went wrong

Deliverance

No hate no love
Can save a man’s soul
But thyself

Fall

When bridges can’t hold
Over two realities
Hearts fall down steep

Ease

Paying gurus
To walk the path
Goes with the path

Stories

How many stories
Could a wineglass give away
Only if it could

Gardening

Is it the garden
Or the gardener
That casts out beauty

Steps

Two thousand steps
Through a long journey
On my way home

Vagabond Heart

Rambling on streets
Searching for a home
Within your heart

Sailing

The monsters within
Rip even on a calm sea
A sailor watches

Questions

I question life
In light and darkness
Because I am

Poems

When heart cries
Mind rejoices
Nude verses

When mind cries
Heart casts poems
Of feelings

In between
Life’s a poem
Unwritten

Freedom

In suffering
Forgetting one’s love
Sour freedom

Scream

Shiny the armor
Of generals marching on
Sunken bones screaming

Shine

In their greatness
Skilled warriors shine
Just others’ prey

Grounding

There’s no strong tree
Without solid ground
Even in heights

Void

The void appears
As the dust settles
Contained within

Dust

Watching the dust
Settling over the ground
A broom’s calling

Autumn Cleaning

Cleaning the windows
From inside to the outside
Blurs of one’s breathing

Knock Knock

Window knockings
A rose foreshadows
Winter’s coming

Blur

Dreams within dreams
Haze over one’s skies
Clouds beyond clouds

Divergent

One counts the loves
And others’ blessings
Diverging sums

Odyssey

Grasping the stars
Beyond the dark clouds
There must be hope

Lucent

What is she doing
Afar from my caresses
Ill-concealed moonlight

Snow-White

In winter’s blue
A red rose’s green
Glitters in white

Twisty

Taking small words
From the world around
Turned upside-down

Play

Who can grasp the stars
And their journeys though our hearts
Children-like playing

Sleepiness

Hugging the air
Under the blanket
Crept drowsiness

Moonlight

It travelled so long
To be one more time closer
Spellbinding full moon

Roots

One finds his roots
Where others’ twigs lie
One golden bough

Peacefulness

One finds his peace
By losing it first
Where lie lost things

Beginnings

Searching for masters
One seldom becomes one
All starts where we are

Cloudless

No wind - no clouds
Can blot a clear sky
Sunny cold days

Mastery

Ducklings fly
With all the force
Till learn grace

Laughter

Numbed by the cold
The sun shyly laughs
Last days of fall

Growth

One cuts a branch
And others will grow
All in their time

Quest

I’m a lover
In search of the loved
Who’s searching back

Hope

Despite despair
Hope still lurks in us
Seeds in the wind

Peregrines

Rambling a life
In search of a home
And find nothing

Flutter

Gone as it came
All in a flutter
Still feel its wings

Islands

A grain of darkness
Surrounded in its smallness
By seas of despair

Flow

One can’t make the wind
Follow one’s footsteps
Going with the wind

Pulse

The universe
A living being
Pulsing within

Seeds

Once a seed planted
It can turn into a tree
Or into nothing

[Unnamed]

Seeing through trees
Blossoms in autumn
A curse must be

Loss

In great and small
One's self can be lost
Humble footsteps

Alaaf!

Hurray red and grey
Let all madness make its way
On Saint Martin’s day

Diffraction

Moon’s reflection
Into your blue eyes
Thoughts’ refraction

Love

Two cords struck
In same movement
Sound accord

Perfume

Her perfume
Roams through my mind
Ghosting thoughts

Transience

First snowflake
Touching my palm
Unreal

Absorption

Into her eyes
Whole past disappeared
As butterflies

Potion

Mixing dreams
From future and past
To form a whole

Splash

A splash - a wave
Not from the water
But from sky’s nave

Flight

Moving in circles
Random walks through the city
From an old chaise longue

Escapism

Surfing the channels
Losing myself in moments
Empty of meanings

Haiku

So many thoughts
The pen's out of ink
Thoughtless haiku

Roots

The lone oak
Pulls its roots deep
To look far

Blossoms

Give me one mind
To seed little truths
For its blossoms

Arson

Summer cypress
Kindled by fall’s fires
Timelessness dance

Balance

Settled in right mix
Between order and chaos
Love finds its wisdom

Lightness

The wind sweeps
The dust from old words
Not meant to say

Autumnal

Butterflies
Carried by wind
Far above

Emptiness

Tree alley
More emptier
Than I am

Fishing

Invisible rods
Pull us toward each other
In a fishing game

Play

Wind’s cold play
With defenseless leaves
Carried away

Nudity

Nude before one’s eyes
Nature is just a mirror
Of man’s purity

Journeys

Going too far
Lost is the way back
Time to settle

Kiss

The sky opened
Like two big pink lips
Giving a kiss

Steps

Prophets’ steps
Deep imprinted
So afar

Dive

Dive in night’s depth
From bed’s coziness
Day’s forgotten

Thorns

The thorns shall prove
A rose's self-worth
Within bundle

Staged

In fight of puppets
There is no truthful winner
Skillful puppeteers

Healing

I loved a few
Roses full of thorns
Still stanching wounds

Creeps

Trees’ canopies
Ghost under footprints
Crispy rustles

Spookiness

Lighten pumpkins
Grin broad from windows
Engraved shameless

Fade

Some green leaves fall
Without witnessing
Life’s transgression

Ghostliness

She crossed the street
Like a chimera
Haunted by past

Fall

                    To N.   

For the green leaf
Fallen too early
Fall’s a story

Chess

An old chessboard’s rules
Entrap the mind of players
Into wins and loss

Dive

How much further down
Until one knows is falling
How much further up

Twilight

Through words one tells
The light from darkness
A madman’s dream

Extremes

Some find a truth
And settle right there
At farthest sides

Mastery

From suffering
A master is born
And disciples

Theater

People acting
From morning till dusk
No puppeteer

Entrapment

A butterfly
Caught in a circle
Who would have thought

Metamorphosis

Words transform night
Into wonderful mornings
Dreaming in meanings

Incense

From a scent stick
Ashes drawn by wind
To its senses

The Catcher

When the wind grieves
And stars are falling
There to catch them

Hollow

Between the clouds
Barking at the moon
No dog around

Emptiness

An empty square
An old man sweeping
Its emptiness

Trifles

What’s a candle
Without its lit fire
Glancing knick-knack

Depth

A small lake
Inside a sea
Words' nature

Braveness

A brave little girl
Climbed a grizzled old poplar
Returning pale leaves

Colors

Patches of colors
Individualities
Enrich wood’s pallet

Craft

Even dead leaves
Can become vessels
Of daring thoughts

Zen

Some left their Zen
On top of mountains
They never climbed

Evolution

Who would have thought
We would become gods
By playing gods

Fall

How much heart loves
Falling into traps
Mind can’t control

Flashes

Heart flickers
Lighten the room
Cold old fires

Curiosity

A cat’s whiskers
Aim into unknown
Up to the tail

Flutter

Arching back
Moving forward
Wind’s offspring

Decay

Where once a rock
Has marked old kingdoms
Blades of grass green

Nudity

How tall the souls
Of grizzled poplars
Inked nakedness

Words

What’s in a word
But a little world
Out of nothing

Shivers

For days the rain
In windows trembles
Pitter-patter

Flight

Wild ducks in flocks
Fly over river
Colorful fall

Deceit

River’s tenderness
Can bring in knees a mountain
Deceitful whispers

Haiku

In depth of night
Reaching for your heart
In light of thoughts

Pulse

Two hearts’ beats
Pulsing in synch
All else noise

Microcosm

Moon’s kiss
Sun’s embrace
Sea’s glimpse

Sailing

Fully motorized
But longing more than ever
For wind’s caresses

Time Capsule

Moments we had
Wait in mind’s corners
For their time

Secret Garden

There is within
A shifting dwelling
Where things happen

Flightiness

Woke up each day
With another girl
Damn hospitals

Hideout

The wood lightens
The dense cloudy sky
Town in a hide

Smoke

Traces of smoke
Spring free from chimneys
Clouds’ early meal

Tribute

Tree after tree
Pays yearly tribute
Gone innocence

Puzzle

Are you night’s magic
A traveler’s good fortune
Or just a red fox

Trailing

After the rain
Joggers hit the road
On foxes’ tails

Addiction

Apart from you
Time lost its meaning
So I’m with you

Shine

The star I wear
Upon my bare chest
Wishes to shine

The Puppeteer

Dead leaves
Drifting wind
Life strings

Flashes

Piercing flashes
Of what would have been
All left behind

Cracks

Fancy clothes
Not letting the light
Reveal souls' cracks

Velvet

A velvet red moon
Must be waiting between stars
For its adorer

Fall

How fast the cat
Stands up and tumbles
Pierced by a nap

Red

Roses’ red pales
At the red of leaves
Wild autumn dreams

Jump

Volleyball balls bounce
From one side to the other
To rest to an end

Doubt

How easy to deem
An afar image of damned
Than the afore-tears

Worth

Easy gain
Can’t prove its worth
In mundane

Reach

One’s life spreads
To depths of own breath
Up to the sky

Stretch

One walks the road
To prove his own worth
To by-shadows

Speed

Catching the moon
Into my bare palm
Letting it go

Love

Candles burning
For each other’s dreams
Ascending smoke

Peacefulness

On an old porch
The whole universe
Surrendering

Shine

One side yellowed
The other dark green
Askew treetops

Big Brother

Big brother's sway
Looks for souls away
Went too astray

Turns

Two wrong turns
Brought me back home
One good turn

Walk

Light after light
Counting my footsteps
Up to a stop

Frozen

First windshields
Started to tremble
At winter's thought

Transparence

Buildings of chairs
Let light through windows
Lighten one's walk

Sailing

On the waves of love
One’s vulnerable in time
To every crosswind

Existence

I write
I exist
In words

Quest

From all moments
Slipped through one’s fingers
Catch a second

Man

Man’s just half of arc
Willing to be a circle
Of encompassment

The Actor

An empty theater
He bowed and followed his act
In all perfection

Touch

Black orchid
Touching your skin
All’s wonder

Breath

Mountains' breath
Hounds the valleys
Raising rain

Rush

Colder the breeze
Rushing through one’s veins
Not fallen leaves

Flight

Sparrows bathing
In morning’s sunlight
Flocking around

Passages

Moments go
And sometimes come
Expected

Beggars

Begging for love
Imploring the gods
What a disgrace

Centeredness

A wild flower
The mid of nowhere
Center of all

Tenderness

Is it the wood
Whispering your name
What a caress

Alienation

Estranged alone
Instead of being
Apart of two

Displacement

Being there
But being not
Just a thought

Fencing

Fencing with a thought
One step back two steps further
Going round and round

Flight

If I let you go
Or you will be coming back
Only hearts can tell

Dreams

Dreaming of love
One becomes a dream
Within many

Touch

Under man’s touch
Life turns into gold
With time in dust

Spin

A soul departed
Other came into being
The wheel of fortune

Clownery

A versed clown
Does what knows best
Distraction

Sprung

A small snowball
Knead between two souls
Melts others’ hearts

Pulse

Playing with her hair
Night dissolves into morning
Selves into nothing

The Clown

Some smiles stolen
From one’s poverty
Others’ richness

Ivory

A fairytale’s life
When one’s closed a lifetime in
Ivory towers

Disturbed

In search of love
Taming own feelings
Behind routine

Halves

Half-hearted beings
Leaning against each other
To tack a whole heart

Expansion

Each sip of wine
Distils one’s space-time
Beyond sublime

Flashes

Engines speeding
From somewhere whispers
A bell's scrying

Convergence

Moments one counts
Reflect back one’s life
Converging sum

Love

What is love
Empty echoes
Through half hearts

Traffic

Six green parrots
Crossing the junction
On red light

Relativity

Seconds pass by
Waiting for a bus
Counting the hours

Choo Choo

On the rail tracks
Plunging with all speed
A wild rabbit

Nudity

Leaf by leaf
Trees' nakedness
Blunt echoes

Romance

Half-moon in daylight
Crossed by an astray airplane
Autumnal idyll

Encounter

There’s a rabbit
Minding its business
Minding my own

Perfection

Some spend a lifetime
In search of born perfection
Wasting rough diamonds

Lethargy

The warm bed
Follows me close
Through the day

Flight

Full moon
Hallowing
Trough clouds

Dorodango

Out of dirt
Shiny spheres
With right aim

Extravagance

Mount Fuji
Waring a hat
Cool hatter

Wilderness

A small squirrel
Hopping between nuts
Wild nutcracker

Phantasms

Walls’ shadows
Grow as night settles
Hangover dreams

Breeze

Oak’s canopy
Swept by autumn’s wind
Mind-pulling leaves

Traces

With each leaf falling
A memory finds its place
In timeless cauldron

Fall

Falling up
On a rainbow
With no end

Snapshots

Formations
Of endless clouds
Same windows

Wolves

Take a wolf
Out of his pack
Still a wolf

Sailing

Ships that brake
Against the waves
Aren’t we all

Dragon Catchers

Some search for dragons
In uncommon new places
No place like own home

Journeys

One runs from life
On untaken paths
Life finds one

Refugees

One takes refuge
In his own dreaming
Day after day

Looping

Days repeat
Monotonic
Distraction

Baloons

Immensities
Can crash you under
Or pull you up

Regrets

No no regrets
Knows a man’s mind
When heart is right

Warm Up

A sip of moonshine
Upon night sky’s warm darkness
A candle lighten

Echo

Half road gone
And one clings to past
Half road gone

Surfing

Last wave of heat
Surfing memories
Of gone summer

Autumn

This oak tree
Got gold colors
In its shades

Petals

Two rose petals
Teared off from same stalk
Alike apart

Haiku

Shameful the words
Cast as a haiku
Not being one

Shipwreck

The big bed
A whole island
Sinking in

Emptiness

A white paper
Witnessed emptiness
Before my words

A bunch of words
Filling a paper
An emptied mind

Asleep

If all’s a dream
Trying to wake up
From dream to dream

Centeredness

Find your center
Advised a circle
An ellipse

Freedom

Link by link
From childhood’s chains
One’s set free

Divide

Devices
In search of love
And its price

Fallen

Where are you wings
Beloved butterfly
Fluttered they high

Heat

Fast burning leaves
Turn tree’s in a blaze
September’s fire

Tea

Hot teacups
Can burn one’s lips
And one’s life

Butterflies

Little wild truths
Storm into one’s life
In flap of wings

Balance

I lost the time
By being old
While being young

I catch up time
By being young
Despite the old

Complexities

Nothing troubles man
Like the imaginary
Function of his mind

Wonder

I wonder you are
Dwelling alone in my heart
I wonder I am

Tenderness

A puppy
In her caress
Fawning on

Catch

Silence settles
Between wind’s flurries
Caught in her heart

Dust

Trains come and go
From an old station
The dust remained

Staccato

Each rolling wheel
Juggling through my mind
Old train’s struggle

Old Days

An old man
Lost in verses
Fading off

Dive

One thousand stars
And mind stops to one
Sky mirroring

Feebleness

Upon man’s shoulders
The universe its weight holds
In granules of sand

Frame

In no one’s life
On road to nowhere
Somewhere sometime

Symphony

Cricket noises
Loom in midnight’s hour
Sound tapestry

Concealment

One finds love
But hides his feelings
From own heart

Unity

Open your heart
And listen the stars
With your being

Distance

Further one goes
Closer one senses
The distance

Life

What is life
But flight in darkness
Searching for light

Airless

First raindrops
In summer’s dust
Rusted steps

Blossoms

Ideas spring
Like violets
From nowhere

Split

When did the path
Became a shadow
Of the path

Cast

Being broken
One can remodel
His whole being

Journeys

Travelling by mind
One reaches mountains’ summit
Where others see plains

Metamorphosis

Day’s quietness
Breaks upon night’s noise
Starry wishes

Acceptance

A rage storm
Mirrored in own err
Cloudless clearing

Youth

Search of perfection
Never looked so merciless
For the young seeker

Bees

Thousand bees
In chaotic swarm
Soundly order

Embrace

Wave after wave
Embracing the shores
Prolonged gushing

Pain

Wild chamomile
Crushed under the feet
Far-reaching scent

Sailing

Corn leaves swooshing
In late summer’s wind
A sailing star

Tipping-Point

One awakes
From the long sleep
Once aware

Blue

Falling in love
With the restless clouds
Into the blue

Masks

What’s harder
To see a mask
Or wear it

Rush

Don’t rush your heart
To fall in love
With your own mind

Noise

Waiting the dawns
The city wakes up
Noise after noise

Reach

Seeds of same tree
Reach over valleys
The same soul

Mirrors

One falls in love
With own creations
Mirrors upon

Hunt

A chimeras’ hunt
Nothing but a chimera
Self in search of self

Nudity

Leaves falling
The knowledge tree
Naked lies

Growth

If it doesn’t feed
Upon your own soul
How can it grow

Haiku

Why would own nature
Be less of a promenade
A toad awaken

Seeds

A seed can find
Shelter in one’s mind
Fear more than kind

The Way

Monks search for peace
By hiding away from world
What’s a path’s value

Cleaning

Refining the mind
Without sweeping the staircase
A path without heart

Unrest

Restless windstorms
One spends a lifetime
Fighting windmills

Timing

First dragonfly
It took a summer
To find its way

Flight

One's life flies
In cuckoo’s nest
Goes by hour

Completeness

What is love
Without its poems
To sing its oaths

Recurrence

Each step in nature
Reminds me of found moments
Walking in nature

Gaze

Watching the sky
Moving with the wind
With my eyes closed

Frozen

No wind to blow
No room lightning fire
Just the silence

Breath

Is it the sea
Embracing the shores
Or life breathing

Doubt

Is it the night
Falling into you
Or just my self

Flight

A Pegasus
Aiming at the moon
Pale morphing light

Fire

In its fire
Burning harder
With each star

Moonlight

Four thin strokes
On dark blue paper
Full moon crickets

Memory

Today’s full moon
Reminds me of you
Yesterday’s hope

Dimorphism

Two puddles
Reverted sky
Soaking wet

[Unnamed]

When did the bud
Turned into a rose
I’ve been asleep

Petals

In mid of chaos
Order opens its petals
A rose in the wind

Promenade

We start in the dark
Move through the world all-knowing
And end in the dark

Completeness

Take out nothingness
And whole world will fall apart
Into nothingness

Nudity

Metaphors
Naked half-truths
Of unknown

Training

The warrior
A storyteller
Of his future

Freedom

A dog set free
Embraces freedom
With all being

A man’s freedom
Weights on his shoulders
Old broken chains

Walking aside
Both share old chains' weight
And learn freedom

Impassibility

A spot of white
Between red roses
Winds make no grant

Errants

Seeing in own faults
Parents’ old mistakes
Graspable changes

Enrichment

A simple moment
Becomes seed in life’s garden
When given meaning

Art

He and the sword
Cutting through the air
In his mind

Ripples

Future’s flashes
Ripple through one’s past
How much’s real

Buzz

Two mumble bees
Buzzing rose bushes
Undecided

Flirt

Is it that red rose
Moving toward butterfly
Or just wind's magic

Fishing

Fishermen wait
For right time and place
Sound awareness

Time

One's time comes and goes
Whether important or not
One lives the moment

Shivers

Gentle rose bushes
Tremble in rain's caresses
Day's only glitter

Attraction

Deeply gazing
Upon my senses
Just a cookie

Inertia

Two strangers
Living for years
From last flame

Fall

With each winding
Flurries springly winter
Falling summer

Blue Rose

I close my eyes
And see a pale rose
Blossomed in blue

Verses

The wind whispers
In its known language
Unknown verses

Mercenaries

Strong ideas
Clasped by shallow souls
Mindless soldiers

Tissues

Two years gone
Sewed in time’s webbing
Loveless stitches

Melancholia

Yesterday’s sunlight
Still lingers through today’s clouds
Past melancholy

Life

An endless dream
Before man’s eyes
How long it lasts

Colors

So many dreams
As snowflakes in fall
Colors through space

Edelweiss

I followed a thought
Through the valleys of unknown
Noble truths blossom

Play

Stripes of light
Play in the river
Joyful flurries

Solitude

One isn’t alone
As the days pass by
One has his dreams

Pictures

At the end of days
Each holds with him a picture
Of what life has been

Displacement

Where is the love
Of building a home
From the ground up

Grasps

With new grasps rising
Candles shown upon one’s steps
Become a lighthouse

Marks

Marks on the door
Tell a different story
Than walls remember

Irrationality

Look at the circle
Not willing to match a square
By its own image

Love

Always in love
With being in love
Never in love

Voiceless

A cricket
Lost its voice
In the night

Blow

A daring fly
Turned into thin air
A clap of hands

Dance

One petal’s pull
Other petal’s fall
Airy ballet

Winter Rose

The green of its leaves
Bloomed sometime before Christmas
Caressed by snowflakes

Summer Rose

Saved from the winter
The rose blossomed in summer
Eye-catching petals

Sensitivity

All hearts get broken
Either darkness or lightness
Is filling their cracks

Synchronicity

White butterflies
A fresh-blossomed rose
Same memory

Clouds

Two long-striped clouds
Long for symmetry
Gentle flurries

Tides

Engines purring
Complete the silence
Far-reaching waves

Verses

From your sweet lips
Came into being
A soundful verse

Transition

Fog might settle
With the coming dawns
Sunlight is near

Dreams

One builds worlds
Within another
Dreams within dreams

Gestures

Small gestures
Seem so easy
All takes time

Dance

Touching the sky
Two twisted branches
Born from same root

Days

Some days weren’t
And some might be
Some days are

Heat

Summer’s wildfire
Echoes on river
Burning ripples

Love

A barn swallow
Turning to its nest
When set free

Reflections

Ponds mirror
One’s mirroring
Of beauty

Geometry

The sky a curve
It feels so askew
In mountain’s view

Jumps

Jumps from small to small
One differentiates all
Beyond own control

Pulse

Pulse in the night
The moon and two stars’
Love triangle

Blossoms

It took an apple
For nature’s laws to fall
Look at those blossoms

Convergence

Behind nothingness
Infinity surrenders
In twist of an edge

Rendezvous

Here you are again
Glowing in your nakedness
My sense in darkness

Ghosts

Is it the image
One carries in mind’s corners
A ghost of one’s heart

Bestowal

When did my heart
Bestowed upon yours
Turned to nothing

Blossoms

Afar fireworks
Eclipse a moon's glow
Night’s blossoming

Span

In love
But alone
A life

Flight

Butterfly's traces
So random in life's span
Flow into unknown

Mirroring

Fireworks spread
Through the widows
Sky's mirrors

Glow

Fireflies
On Rhein's sky
Thunder

Live

Let your wings caressed
By the carrying flurries
Feel life's magic touch

Affluence

Rivers of souls
Get pulled by Rhine's shores
Into the light

Propensity

The die laughs
At gambler’s luck
From all sides

Heights

How to measure
A lover’s belief
From mountains’ tops

Emptiness

Empty morning
Like the one before
And one before

Advice

Doubt everything
Told an old mirror
To a young one

Melancholy

Dusted records
Wait on the table
Two wine glasses

Patterns

Waking up
Going to bed
To meet you

Journey

Old bottle wine
Came a long way
To meet my thirst

Sailing

So many ships
Float on the river
Without sails

Tremors

Two tsunamis
In whisky glasses
Torn apart

Aim

Aiming high
To a berry jam
On the last shelf

Diversion

I caught your smile
In a words’ divert
There it goes

Blindness

Wandering its flight
One forgets its whereabouts
Blinding beauty

Burst

Catching light
A candle’s burst
Left a trace

Algebra

A formula
Constraints a whole world
And sets it free

Fall

A tree falling
Whole wood breaks apart
In an echo

End

Last wave
Swept the shores
Soundless

Epiphany

Damaged by hopes
Not fulfilled by gods
One faces fears

Cessations

Somewhere birds
Turn into stones
When flight stops

Gifts

To miss
And be missed
Life’s gift

Silence

Mind’s back and forth
Caresses the shores
Midnight’s silence

Defiance

Defying gods
For comedy’s sake
What a laughter

Nudity

From red to blue
Stripped is the sky
Of all its stars

Search

Don’t look for me
In the madding crowd
But in your heart

Balance

In his deep sorrow
The lover lost a soulmate
But found a diamond

Verses

For the lover
No verse makes justice
To one’s feelings

Mirroring

Vulnerable
A rose looks deep in
Beholder’s eyes

Summer Night

Summer’s coldness
In a dark blue sky
Starry drowning

Moonlight

Gazing at the moon
Phantasies unfold one’s path
In disillusions

Distance

Running away
From a memory
Closer pursuit

Sailing

Winds of fortune
Like the waves of faith
Bring one further

Tragedies

Failing to live
Expecting to die
What tragedy

Winds

A breeze remains
In heart of living
It goes and comes

Call

The sound of leaves
Calling for the rain
And here it comes

Music

Picking sounds
As they pass by
Passing on