My Haiku Page

My Haiku Page

Breeze ripples
Boughs bow and sigh
Coolness !

Falling leaves:
a gust of wind showers the ground
gold at my feet

Visitor @ my window
wings folded, hanging upside down
a little bat

Dec 31st 2007:
sunny & breezy, foliage rustling
in Botanic Gardens

Dec storms:
water down soaking walls
drip, drip, drip

Boom City:
a forest of cranes gouging the earth
scarring my homeland

Jan drizzles:
on the leaves the crystals
shimmer.

Enright's bench:
sits among tall trees and birdsong
on a sunlit knoll

JOURNEY
Bike ride to village
amidst raindrops and breeze,
the trees race

Dreprung Monastery:
temple bells reverberate on cold crags
all around

In the park
crystals shimmer on the leaves
freshness there

Bike ride to the village
chickens in bamboo coops chug by
to some market

Rejection is
a cat without shelter
in the rain

Boredom is
a long afternoon
in an empty house

Fear is
encountering that figure in the dark
brandishing a knife

Loneliness is
a brown parched leaf
on a pavement

Happiness is
a breeze in the Park
on a hot day

Incoming tide:
a blue soft crepe of folds
rolls landwards

After rains
olive sunbirds on my willow
begin to whistle

Waves on rocks beat
along the shoreline foam splutter
water fountains

SNEC treatment:
patients with eyes dilated sit and wait like
patience upon a monument

40 years on
I finally made my way
to Angkor

Sitting still:
a white crested thrush above
and I below
in Kent Ridge woods*

Agony is
lying on the stretcher waiting your turn
to undergo the knife

Lifestyle choice:
an old couple living in an old house
full of old furniture

Jan 2007-
* After writing this, I read about the recent mishaps of trees crushing
a walker at Bukit Batok Nature Park and another at Treetop Walk.
Sad to say, my ardour for meditation below trees has now been
somewhat dampened and doubt if I could reach this harmony again.
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