' little by little
let me alight, like you
from the eastern hedge '



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0 2

Is it wrong to be, this young
And this tired?

🎨 Peter Cacho

6 19

Each month, Jing Li illustrates the winners from 's Monthly Haiku Challenge - February writers created poems about "Sleeping Buddha".
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0 1

' for the benefit
white flowers gleam like a fall of snow
by the purple walls '



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0 2

' maybe not today
set a cup of cornel
uncomfortable '



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2 3

knowing the
weight
strengthens my resolve


(image: Woman Before a Fishbowl by Henri Matisse)

0 4

' on a day when yellow birds hovered in the branches
and cars in the parking
on the ivy path '



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3 4

Salutations, friend
May your flies be fat and slow
As my people say

0 9

Heart yearns for a taste
Like burgeoning blooms crave rain
Sweet taunting desire

11 46

' visiting the graves
the crickets make a doleful chirping
in an optical illusion '



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0 2

' autumn wind is blowing without cease
don't go home today i might
near to the north star '



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0 1

' the babies are bit
the hubble telescope is watching
under a hundred miles of cloud '



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0 2

' in a quiet winter
her robe is a cloud, her face a flower
below a river a thousand fathoms deep '



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0 1

' now that basketball
many beauties take the air
through the deepest of caves '



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0 2

' when the white dew changes to hoar-frost
fancy lures
below a river a thousand fathoms deep '



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0 2

' revenge is never
row of willows begins to show green
in one intimate night '



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0 3

I know you are here
but are you really all there?
Existential thoughts







🖼 Words © Alan Vincent Michaels
“Are you really all there?” AI art by WOMBO Dream app

1 22

' in a blissfull moment of joy
a caped crusader attacks deeply
happy saturday '



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0 2

' clear autumn locked in a deep courtyard
red flowers hang like a heavy mist
among four hundred temples '



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1 3

' never give up no
emperor with his eight horses running
in one intimate night '



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