Parallel Poems
  • Home
  • The Poems
    • Haiku
    • Parallels
    • Haibun
    • Haiga and Visual Haiku
    • Tanka
    • Poem Sequences
    • Collaborative Poems
    • Portmanteaux
  • Published Poems
  • Tagged Items
  • Journal Publications
  • About
    • Contact Me
    • Search content
    • Login
Parallel Poems
Feed Entries

April 2012

Written on 24 January 2017.

pain carves
a pretense of words ...
chiselled moon

Written on 24 January 2017.

words spiral
into ink smudges -
falling leaves

Written on 24 January 2017.

dewfall ...
bread rises
from words

Written on 24 January 2017.

foetal moon ...
the heartbeat flickering
in these candles

Written on 24 January 2017.

pale fire
snatching blossoms
from the sun

Written on 24 January 2017.

flea-bitten child -
an apparition of
cherry blossoms

Written on 24 January 2017.

mist reveals
each valley's fold...
secret flux

Written on 24 January 2017.

creaking joints -
again he brings down
the house

Written on 24 January 2017.

gnawing at
the dream of myself -
spring reflection

Written on 24 January 2017.

dimming light ...
black swans dissolve
before me

Written on 24 January 2017.

river fog -
the murmur of
foetal dreams

Written on 24 January 2017.

mirror mist ...
the name of God
runs in beads


 

Written on 24 January 2017.

Fukushima ...
an efflorescence
blossoms

Written on 24 January 2017.

leaves on edge ...
menacing winds
on the move

Written on 24 January 2017.

fallen leaves
going the distance ...
field of dreams

Written on 24 January 2017.

morning star ...
dewdrops moisten
worm cast mounds

Written on 24 January 2017.

second day ...
what stones weigh down
those wings?

Written on 24 January 2017.

rough-hewn wood
yields now to nails ...
tree of life

Written on 24 January 2017.

paschal moon ...
the light within
death valley

Written on 24 January 2017.

one by one
leaves fall away ...
autumn wind

Written on 24 January 2017.

distant spring ...
rain trickles over
autumn leaves

Written on 24 January 2017.

silent spring ...
the song in my heart
has sprouted wings

Written on 24 January 2017.

waiting room -
shadows lengthen
the queue

Written on 24 January 2017.

with nightfall
even embers spend
their passion

Written on 24 January 2017.

day of reckoning
the penitent renders
his due

Written on 24 January 2017.

after summer --
even embers spend
their passion

Written on 24 January 2017.

cats in love -
the familiar ache
from this touch

Written on 24 January 2017.

second childhood -
a pendulum clock
now marks time

Written on 24 January 2017.

autumn fog ...
brush strokes level
a mountain

Written on 24 January 2017.

gliding
out of season -
black swans

Page 1 of 2

  • 1
  • 2
  1. The Poems
  2. Haiku
  3. Haiku Notebooks 2012
  4. April 2012
Parallel Poems © 2011 - 2026 by Stephen Bailey is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Jump to Top
  • Home
  • The Poems
    • Haiku
    • Parallels
    • Haibun
    • Haiga and Visual Haiku
    • Tanka
    • Poem Sequences
    • Collaborative Poems
    • Portmanteaux
  • Published Poems
  • Tagged Items
  • Journal Publications
  • About
    • Contact Me
    • Search content
    • Login