Nuances

With time one sees
Many shades of gray
Till blue settles

Shadows

Darkness doesn’t stay
Unless accepted
Shadows one feeds

Pulse

Dawns till dusk
Life is pulsating
Awareness

Tides

Each love a sea
Tiding in one’s thoughts
Slowly drowning

Release

Letting go
The butterfly
Finds its way

Futility

One imagines love
In one thousand known faces
And finds it in none

Quest

One searches upon
An image of his own thought
Imperfect mirrors

Efflux

Emptied of thoughts
Looking for nothing
Time passes by

Steps

A little will
Can bring little growth
Much by little

The Fairy

Not awaken
From her little dream
Sleeping beauty

Distance

Faked indifference
Brings one miles furthers
To indifference

Illusions

Many teacups
Full of emptiness
Spilling over

Sunset

Losing one’s hope
Lets darkness settle
Almost sunset

Colors

Colorful blossoms
Laid on a colorless sky
Seconds in between

Boxes

Each haiku
Locks a memory
And reveals it

Unbalance

The way love ends
Like the way it starts
Unequal game

Mural

Two red-blackish birds
In search of infinity
Filling a white wall

Proximity

Fast-running thoughts
A teacup's stillness
Somewhere between

Truths

What good all truths
And their bare coldness
Without your touch

Emptier

The more I write
The poorer I am
Almost empty

Inquiry

How to distinguish
Between spring’s splendid blossoms
The ones that bear fruits

Waste

Oh such a waste
So much green around
And no sunlight

Growth

One sees the rose
But seldom the bud
Struggling toward

Haste

One sees the bud
Imagines the rose
Before its time

Humbleness

A plum tree
Full of blossoms
Bows deeper

Duality

Am I the dream
Fulfilling itself
Or the dreamer

Transparence

How deep the wounds
Hidden under skin
A smile can tell

Flow

Rivers of clouds
Furrow in midday
Pale-lighted sky

Quarrel

Philosophizing
Over a glass of old wine
With the wine within

Broken

Scattered on pavement
Small chunks of love left behind
That once made a whole

Bliss

Blissful the hermit
Rebelled against life’s nature
Creates his own flow

Clouds

Truths come and go
Unseen by one’s mind
Nebulous thoughts

Spring

Blossoms seed
Into other minds
Ceaseless spring

Wonder

Butterfly’s wings
Between life’s realms
Ceaseless wonder

Intensity

Days come and go
Measure of one’s light
The love one seeds

Ghosts

Without love
A hungry ghost
Flying low

Mirroring

Venerated
By two souls akin
Graceful mirrors

Cruelty

What cruel river
Would split hearts from each other
Cascading feelings

Raindrops

Rapid raindrops
Caressing the leaves
Of your footsteps

Glitter

One hopes to see
Behind all glitter
A ray of light

Reflections

Why would be diamonds
More precious than your blue eyes
Light makes one wander

Solitude

An oak ruling
Over the valley
No tree afar

Scattering

Lotus flowers
Floating over waves
Scattered beauty

Gone

A false movement
And the butterfly is gone
What was I hoping

Settling

Mind moves with the clouds
Until a clearing settles
In midst of nowhere

Heart's Path

The path to one's heart
Neither made of rose petals
Nor of painful thorns

Budō

Two fighters
Searching for flaws
In their self

Late Blossoms

An old man
Falling in love
Spring blossoms

Limits

The master burnt
By a book’s cover
Lost disciples

Attraction

A pear and a knife
Sweet drops drooling down the edge
From last encounter

Narcissism

I’m in love
With your poems
Wrote the pen

Rue

Watching seconds pass
Unfolding eternities
Without your presence

Flow

Unfolding
Each story starts
With an end

[Unnamed]

Even butterflies
In their desire to live
Learn to fly astray

Perfection

The perfect time
The perfect person
Perfect other

Peacefulness

Over treetops
Waves of deep silence
Mind’s delight

Rage

Drawing deep waves
On your naked skin
A sea in flames

Sweep

High tides erase
The steps of the wise
Gold virgin sands

Longing

In their solitude
Mountains long for sea’s caress
In every river

Wonder

I wonder you
Little butterfly
You fly - I sigh

Contemplation

Windows one by one
Close off over the city
One of them is yours

Choice

What lover would like
To put out the glowing fire
That burns in his heart

Flash

The trembling leaves
In all this stillness
It smells of storm

Identity

Am I the verses
Not willing to come to light
Or the empty page

Flight

Faltering in flight
The butterfly finds its way
In life’s short flutter

Haiku

A bow and its string
Curved under archer’s tension
Aiming for one’s mind

Labyrinths

One builds labyrinths
Just to return back
From where one started

Flurries

The wind blows
Through the young leaves
Stirring old wounds

Footsteps

Forgetting the way
Behind one’s footsteps
No way to turn back

Happiness

Who is happier
The man with one pearl
Or the one with none

Emptiness

An empty teacup
Empty no matter how much
Tea in the teapot

Wishes

Spring finally came
And one wishes for summer
Thus one’s wishes go

Form

Form
A spider web
Of content

Expectations

One long awaits
For cherry blossoms
To bloom in spring

Practice

Dissolve your self
In the threads of love
Bind opposites

Concert

On an empty alley
A concert takes place
In morning's lights

Expanse

A heart expands
To the depth of one's mind
It contracts

Change

A butterfly turns
Into a dragon
When the time has come

Butterflies

Hundred butterflies
Paired in morning's flurries
Hearts-eases in spring

Surrender

A fighter who lost
His final fight surrenders
To the last moment

Rise

Spring's odors
Rise with the morning
Into my senses

Measure

The master
And disciples knee
Altogether

Mastery

A whole lifetime
To prepare one's self
For one moment

Timing

A disciple comes
When the master is ready
To empty his cup

Perspective

The eagle
Looks at the storm
From above

Stoppage Time

A live football field
And an inert ball
Between lit candles






Note: to the ones who gave their lives on the field, a high price to pay...

Heat

Touching a black rose
Even the moonlight loses
     itself in the heat

Barefoot

Walking barefoot
In childhood’s garden
A child again

Mirage

A black rose
Under moonlight
Night’s mirage

Metamorphosis

Some red roses
Turn into black
In summer’s light

Poorness

Poor the heart
That can’t accept
To be filled

Twilight

A lover’s heart
Binds hell and heaven
In moon’s eclipse

Love

Falling in love
Again and again
With same person

Fragrance

Lilac’s fragrance
Beguiles one’s senses
Late spring’s charm

Suspension

Rainbow's tears
In spider's web
Free at last

Chatter

Waves still follow
Traces in the sand
Midnight's chatter

Outreach

Even old trunks
Spread arms to the sky
Looking for love

Quest

Each soul seeks
Own little truths
To lighten its path

Likeness

Same stars
Light my path
And yours

Grasps

A grain of sand
Whole universe stands
Before one's grasp

Coherence

People of the town
Connected by unknown threads
Same melodic line

Gap

It was a thought
Just a simple thought
Never thought

Projections

Flames' geometry
Transformations of realms
From nows to somedays

Clustering

Must be crowded
On lonely stars
Of souls akin

Moonlight

We grasp its light
And know is right there
Behind the clouds

Fragility

What's more fragile
Than a chestnut's buds
A dreamer's hopes

Truth

Truths don’t add up
All life resembles
Fractions of truth

Touch

The universe melts
Like an iceberg in the sun
Under your caress

Sleepiness

The fire in stove
The flames on the wall
Invite to dream

Split

This city broken
By imaginary lines
Of what ought to be

Growth

Yesterday's fruits
Tomorrow's blossoms
Today's moments

Heaven

A rabbit searches
For no heaven man can build
Is heaven itself

Sheepwalks

Sheeps of the city
How soulless their tenderness
In steps they follow

Humbleness

In one's humbleness
One can discover beauties
No fancy places

Dewdrops

A chestnut's tears
A morning's diamonds
In light's waving

Faith

An old cross
Cherry blossoms
Today's faith

Luminary

I bring light
In my own darkness
I'm a candle

Shipwrecked

A ship on the shore
Feeling futile each moment
Away from the waves

Dreaming

Dreaming butterflies
Between white cherry blossoms
On a first of May