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