Memory

Grandpa’s steps
A memory
To replay

Spring

Cherry blossoms
All over the pond
Image of spring

Boredom

Two halves of melon
Shared with the beloved
Heavenly boredom

Touch

To know the bamboo
One has to touch the bamboo
How can one touch love

Heartless

Twelve petals
On the pavement
Lie broken

Words

Fancy words
Don’t change a mind
Just egos

Remains

People who left
Let space to be filled
For better use

Light

No clothes make man
But the light carried within
Light bares no clothes

Halves

Half moon rising
Half night till morning
Half light concealed

Flavors

A mind in peace
Can taste life’s flavors
In cups of tea

Growth

One hears the wind
And knows storm is near
When mind’s prepared

Blossoms

Where did love go
Between cherry trees
Wind and blossoms

The Thief

The moon a thief
It took many dreams
Far far away

Chase

A black swan
In a grungy pond
Wild geese chasing

Candles

Love burns in one’s heart
Lightening in night the mind
Spiritful candles

Rhythm

Looking up the stars
Disappearing in sunrise
Geese returning home

Ballast

What one lets go
And what one keeps
A mind’s ballast

Masks

In face of dying
Compassion shows its faces
The masks are falling

Jump!

Two fluffy tumblers
Sprung high over each other
Jumping-jack rabbits

Vanity

Last snowflakes
Embound in vain
Spring’s kingdom

Coldness

Even the sun
Caught a sore cold
Colorless coughs

Impressions

An warrior’s dream
Made a lasting impression
With the last breath

Air-Punching

Don’t hit the wind
A storm might start
A flap of wings

Rambling

Within simple words
One invites his soul ramble
Into infinite

Being

With each breath
The whole universe
Witnesses life

Afar

A long pause
I can feel your heart
Miles away

Likeness

Same window
Another day
No same me

Fire

The smell of burned wood
Ravishes the cold morning
No Phoenix rising

Letting Go

With the sunrise
Grass blades let all go
Night and dewdrops

Fortitude

Back in the grass
One feels with one's joy
The weight of time

Journeys

People don’t see
The long road behind
But where we are

Metamorphosis

A blue mockingbird
Wished to be a butterfly
Sprung from nest and flied

Spin

Coupled snowflakes
Continuous spin
Into unknown

Traces

The light curves
Under night’s touch
On her skin

Trance

Mesmerized
By the play of light
In her eyes

Flutter

A flutter of wings
Graceful curves in the moonlight
Beloved butterfly

Beauty

The beauty of life
Is to fall in love again
With the first blossoms

Flight

Look the butterfly
Flapping between tree blossoms
On your silky skin

Education

Education
For eyes opening
Not mind closing

Lecture

I read in your eyes
Pages from life you’ve hidden
Our souls’ doors widen

The Oasis

An old dusty church
Hides behind buildings
An oasis of faith

Discrepancies

Many mourn life
In gods' fiesta
All is but joy

Tourists

Many come
Few souls remain
Fewer love

[Unnamed]

An old-child mumbles
Words unknown by heart of man
Two broken spirits

Fight

Beloved daffodils
Fight with last chills of winter
Soldiers on a plain

Shipwrecks

One loves small moments
And hangs to them a lifetime
Fast ships in port sunk

Wordiness

Why so many words
Hearts need no meanings
That speak in love's name

Blossoms

Is it springtime
Or is it winter
Blossomed snowflakes

Embrace

Into your warm arms
Whole night felt a second
From eternity

Hide-and-Seek

Watching the wind
As hides between trees
Warm winter's day

Wandering

Through the city
Picking up moments
Or they pick me

Stories

A broken soul can tell
The ways to hell and heavens
And the worlds between

Puzzle Solving

Each broken soul
Has to find its place
In the puzzle

Twist

Branches dance
Hold by gods’ hands
Twisted clouds

Chills

Mellowed chills
Follow snowflakes
To the sky

Ice Fishing

Behind the ice
A face sunk in thoughts
A goldfish dreams

Sunk

The taste of loss
Sinks deep in the wine
Shipwrecked feelings

Spring Dreams

Unexpectedly
Snowflakes swept a morning’s dream
Spring’s warm touch – mulled wine

Winter Roses

Why love a winter’s rose
Its petals will fall
With the first frost

The Nest

The nest is ready
For a barn swallow’s landing
Spring calls for mating

The Passenger

Through the small city
A light smoking Goliath
On frozen Danube

Blindness

All philosophies
Won’t help a blind man
Found on abyss’ brink

Non-Sense

The no me
Misses the no you
Being-less

Life-Less

With no love to love
Moments go without moments
A life with no life

Dreamless

Why does her smile
Still haunts my mornings
I stopped dreaming

Frozen

Dressed in white
Grass blades salute
The sunrise

Runaway Words

One year of running
Between words to find nothing
But more emptiness

Persistence

A question lingers
Like the morning after night
Another morning

Justice

Judging others
On our own records
Makes no justice

Projections

Shadows on the walls
Lighten a sunset
Of electric fire

Journeys

Not all journeys
Start with single steps
Some start in heart

Singularity

What’s own’s solitude
On the paths of life
One-hearted haiku

Present

Getting used to
What the present holds
A dark-blue sky

[Unnamed]

A fearless dragon
Biting its own tail
Where is that dragon

Fear

One sees his deep fears
In the mirroring darkness
Forgetting of light

Irony

People spend a life
Searching for each other
Waste all in seconds

[Unnamed]

The eyes that love
The eyes that hate
Same eyes or not

Cruelty

The most cruel smile
The one of knowing
Without knowing

Forge

Seldom soulmates
Are cut from a whole
But made through fire

Wholeness

Two broken souls
In the midst of fire
Can make a whole

Quest

I search for a mind
To mirror my wonder
Not just an image

Mirroring

One builds a pond
To mirror the sky
And be mirrored

Presence

One compares a pond
With images from the past
The pond disappeared

Falling

From leaf to leaf
A raindrop falling
Till no more leaves

Dream-Chasing

One chases a dream
Until gets crashed from its heights
When should one’s chase stop

Helpless

Sapless one’s knowledge
In matters of the heart
Quenchless fieriness

Dreams

One’s love
Just a dream
Till shared

The Letter

A blank page
A love letter
Never sent

One More Day

One pushes own's limits
Just to survive
One more day

Geodesic

The shortest way
Between our hearts
Our honesty

Lock-in

When one closes
All roads to his heart
Weeds grow higher

Incompleteness

What’s deepest love
But a cloudy dream
Without friendship

Truth

Truths might walk naked
Before one’s fair eyes
Till one learns to see

Bestowal

All I can give
A home in my heart
And in my thoughts

Duality

One has to learn
To love beloved’s light
And his darkness

Edges

One starts to live
On the edge
To glimpse the abyss

Forgiveness

Beyond one’s mistakes
With each breath one can forgive
And be forgiven

Bridges

When one starts to love
Bridges between unknown lands
Start showing the way

Lost in Translation

Lost in translation
One lingers on words
Apparent meanings

Blither

From sense to nonsense
I stretch the strings of meanings
Heartless puppeteer

Counting

One counts the days
One counts the years
Then one stops counting

Wholism

One needs love
To make a whole
From broken parts

Love

Choosing a rose
Beholding its growth
Healing the wounds

The Fool

A blind searching
For deeper meanings
Until all stops

[Unnamed]

Crawling to the moon
One may find himself
Under the moonlight

Entrapment

Knowing own heart
Ignoring its pulse
Cold entrapment

Home

Looking at stars
Reckoning a few
One feels right home

Fragments

There’s more to people
Than mind can conceive
And heart could perceive

Geometry

I loved a red rose
Fallen into daffodils
Life goes in circles

Words

One searches for words
But all words have been spoken
Embracing no words

Impression

Fluffy snowflakes
Impressed a rabbit
Run rabbit run

Seasons

In springtime
One plants the seeds
Of knowledge

In summer
One learns the growth
Of nature

In autumn
One harvests all
In wisdom

In winter
One nourishes
Own’s nature

Ships

Dispersed trees
In the foggy sky
Inversed ships

Steps

Walking on grass
The earth moves with us
In cosmic dance

Duality

More than one sees
Is what one can’t see
Sides of same moon

Completeness

A masterpiece
Remains incomplete
Without beholders

Illusions

Own’s values
One’s illusions
Of beauty

Ripples

Watching the pond
Back and forth ripples
Embraced stillness

Hunting

From two sparrows
A tomcat chooses
The one that moves

Trespassing

Haunting images
Of a night’s nightmares
Crawl over the day

Timing

Moved by my touch
A rose closed itself
Waiting its time

Haiku

Stretched by meanings
An haiku changes
Own’s perception

Perception

To see one’s magic
A window must be open
As from soul to soul

Magic

The magic we hold
Sparks the magic we create
Candles in the night