Journeys

Each single journey
Into unknown starts
With a leap of faith

Division

One divides beauty
Taking petal by petal
Till nothing remains

Love

Should I love you
With all my being
Or from the heart

Wisdom

A dog barking
While chasing its tail
A fool’s wisdom

Impression

What happened to you
My dearest old friend
Time ravished your smile

[Unnamed]

Is it the mind
Or the wind moving
No candle lit

Geometry

Life’s immersion
Of mind into world
In a curved spin

Wolves

Seen as a wolf
One ends like a wolf
Apart from its pack

Pathless

Between stars
Or cherry trees
No true path

Alienation

Always in love
With the moment
That never comes

Sailing

Searching for a ship
To take me far
In my thoughts

Touch

                      To C&P

Two swallows
Touch each other
With their wings

Moonless

Where are you moon
Between plum blossoms
Only stars shine

Presence

A warrior's sword
Rests in each syllable
Of blossomed haiku

Caress

The sword caressing
With its blade the ground
A warrior's end

Choice

A shiny sword
The way to heaven
Or to own's hell

Openness

Hear the butterfly
How it opens its wings
For tomorrow

Insanity

No life’s worth taking
Into the name of the gods
More pain feeds more pain

Tears

Each haiku
The perfect tear
Of One’s mind

Reflections

The intense storm
And the butterfly
Same reflection

Love-less

Much love in vain
Not showing one cares
Love without love

Rain

Raindrops hit puddles
With a furibund’s last strength
Tension – acceptance

Illusions

The leaping frog
The sound of water
Illusory

Shame

Shame to the poets
Who can describe a woman
In thousand verses

Ripples

Contemplating
The inside abyss
Mind’s meanders

Blossoms

Strawberry blossoms
Stand out from the dirty snow
One dreams of summer

Counting

Counting moments
Spent with you in thought
Uncountable

War and Peace

Hearts can’t be conquered
In allegoric battles
But attuned in peace

Surrendering

Tired of carrying
An imaginary fight
I just surrendered

Existence

Where there is love
There is a heart
Or maybe two

Flurries

One kisses the wind
And its mark is felt somewhere
Between two flurries

Leaps

When one heart falls
Another follows
Small leaps of faith

Moonshine

Drinking all alone
Conversing with the moonlight
Small sips of moonshine

Identity

I’m nothing
And everything
Same cover

Journeys

Sometimes
One has to travel far
To find his self

Winds

Where does love begin
And where does love stop
Do winds ever stop

Shivers

My beloved mountains
Stripped of winter warm clothes
Tremble in spring’s wind

Shuffling

Is and is not
Mix in the moment
Love and love not

Sunlight

With the rising fog
Dewdrops glim in the mild sun
Merrier moments

Sensuality

A strawberry
Falling on her skin
Rolls in a thrill

Motion

The stars over pond
Move with ripples made by wind
My self in stillness

Appearance

A warm heart
Shielded by ice
Appearance

Awakening

The sound of water
Spilling over the bathtub
Instant awaken

Proximity

In midst of passion
The lover’s looking for truth
One step from darkness

Zazen

Between form
And emptiness
One’s still mind

See

Open your eyes
Each single moment
Something to grasp

Sunset

Descending sun
Halved by a thin cloud
Pretty boiled yolk

Worth

One doesn’t have
An eternity
To prove his worth

The Thief

The mirrored moon
From pond disappeared
A swan landing

Transience

Life is fleeting
In butterfly’s trace
Through the thin air

Seeing

Following the way
Ups and downs go with the path
Seeing beyond them

Grandeur

A falcon stumbling
Over its missing talon
Unimpaired grandeur

Flight

A swallow in flight
Dives after its mate
Thrusting to heaven

The Way

Walking the path
One observes the laws
Nature follows

Sailing

Expecting not
Mind sails through moments
Fluid nectar

One Step Away

One step away
From a perfect night
Only one step

Afar

A train passing
Joyous old voices
Afar I am

Roads

Searching for one
One loses the many
Roads into unknown

The Traveler

One feels a stranger
Walking on the paths of man
To find mind's freedom

Creation

From finite
The infinite
Twigged branches

Reluctance

I can see your pain
But no cure can be given
To unwilling minds

Dreams

What’s reality
But a dream in a dream’s dream
Snowflakes of blossoms

Loss and Gain

Even a lost love
Remains an useful lesson
No blossoms in vain

Morning

A wild goose’s cry
And the bluest sky in years
Half on the road home

Elusion

One can speak of love
In hundred clever verses
Without grasping love

Beds

Roses seem alike
Behind their fragrance
Layered beauty

Roses

Each rose a world
Of thorns and velvet
With own fragrance

Weeding

When one takes out
Weeds of older loves
New love blossoms

[Unnamed]

If life's illusion
Why would one persist
Believing in dreams

Ghosting

Drums fill the night
With ghosted feelings
A ghost am I

Disaccord

Raindrops' touch
Old piano
Disaccord

Falling

Raindrops forgot
The taste of heaven
Roaring in fire

Sense

If one can’t wonder
The greatness of little things
What’s the sense of life

Walk

Walking through hellfire
One acknowledges heaven
In each respire

Imprudence

A duck on the lake
Too proud of its artful take
Just made a mistake

Ripples

Old love
Feelings ripple
No splash

Lightning

I close my eyes
And see her blue eyes
Piercing my mind

Daydreaming

One dreams of roses
And innocent butterflies
Over the winter

Drunk

No more whisky
To sink my sorrow
Drunk from water

Fishing

A blue pelican
Fishing in an empty pond
For new memories

Flutter

Feeble branches
Flutter in spring’s wind
Impatiently

Evanescence

Love’s butterflies
Vanish into clouds
In flaps of wings

Fragrance

The dark-red rose
Touching my senses
What a fragrance

Bathing

Round-round round the green
Hopping rabbits having fun
Within a sunbath

Imaging

Imaging stars
On a cloudy night
Minds’ light playing

Fallen Angel

An angel lost
Its to behoove wings
With our story

Play

A playful cat
Inside a black box
No box no cat

Damage

To be in love
And get damaged by
The chaos within

Disillusion

One’s falling in love
With a wonderful princess
Airy-fairy image

Tipping-Point

Lover’s hopes
Were never so daring
Seconds before collapse

Thawing

The sound of ice
Breaking under feet
Warm thoughts freezing

Poems

Women like poems
To be savored in beauty
And varying rhythms

Chaos

How did the butterfly
Become a storm
In a flap of wings

Tribute

I’d give a kingdom
For the secret passage
To your heart

Candles

Sky’s night candles
Blinking in the wind
Thousands fireflies

The Buddha

Look at the Buddha
Serenity is written
In all his being

Butterfly-Effect

A flap of wings there
Another over my heart
Beloved butterfly

Backfire

Playing with fire
One begets more fire
Unless one bows

Blinkers

Fluffy tails
Rhythmic hiding
Spots of white

Waltz

Pairs of rabbits
Spin into circles
A springtime waltz

Fiery

Two nights have passed
And her eyes still burn
My retina

Intersection

A furtive glance
And a hidden blush
Two hearts pulsing

Fragility

A rose in the cold
Might not make it after spring
To share its blossoms

Perfection

A young spirit
Through the eyes of innocence
Looks for perfection

Growing older
One accepts each act of love
As pure perfection

Metamorphosis

One looks at a rose
And sees the butterfly
Holding the rose

When did the rose
Became a butterfly
With first petal

A butterfly
Became a red rose
With first blossom

Words

Words carry in them
The weight of our pasts
A spider web’s thrill

Blind Spots

The sound of darkness
Echoes between eyes too blind
To embrace the light

Morphism

One sees in his mind
A whole life in a dream’s worth
Butterfly moments

Shades of Gray

Over the trees
More gray in the tone
Smoky freedom

Temptation

The flapping of wings
Can bring one into the lure
To tame a butterfly

Bareness

Spring’s wind ghosting
On the bare pavement
Behind your steps

Tribute

With each spring
I pay my tribute
A piece of me

Dance

Each falling blossom
Dances in wind’s light flurries
Till has found its place

Likeness

The way of the man
Like the way of the swallow
Share the same essence

Art

The art of love
Two spirits as one
In own freedom

[Unnamed]

Putting one’s soul
In meaningful acts
One finds his soul

Identity

What a lover is
Searching in the light of love
A sense of purpose

Lanterns

Lanterns on river
Light for the souls of the gone
Living memories

Islands

Too many islands
Looking for other shoreline
Not to be alone

Passer-by

In a houses’ glade
A ship moves up the river
Leaving all behind

Moonlight

Watching the moon
Hours fill a night’s worth
In an embrace

Fickleness

Sometimes words just come
And fall in place together
Other times words go

Path Finding

Looking for my heart
In mist of shallow meanings
To show me the way

Thirst

In a lightning bowl
The lake catches in power
Sipping the heavens