.
in sweltering heat

dew-drops of sweat on my brow

planting snowflakes


(Snowflakes, garden plant: Gypsophila Paniculata)


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Tanka

.

stiffling morning heat

last night's thunder nothing but

--an unkept promise

once, you went to fetch the moon

and like the rain, didn't return.


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Midsummer night

lingering in rose garden

--scented memories



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By the canal
sharing a summer lunch,
the ducks and I

The strolling tourists
wool-wrapped for the occasion
-- midsummer in England

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a tiny spider

crawling back and forth

weaving --another day


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.
a passing swallow

takes flight in the blue morning

my thoughts on its wings


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Waking up

to the crackle of dawn;

sunrise


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the setting sun

hesitates for a moment,

caught on a building-crane


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Bright June sky

shadows anticipate the night

--the elusive moon


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