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Haiku by Paradis
Paradis | November 25, 2009
Looking at Haiku is like looking at a painting on a wall.
You focus on the painting, and see nothing else around you, just lost in that moment. We are all too often, caught up in our own little world, we neglect to see the obvious, the simple, the plain things around us. As poets, we are tasked with bringing those simplistic things to the fore.
If you read a book, the author will have created the world in which you will explore and see, in Haiku however, the poet points a finger to where your journey begins, and you must find the way yourself, making your own discoveries.
Only the reader will know when he or she is too tired to continue. Only the reader can listen to the spaces between the words. Only the reader can hear those purposeful silences, left in just the right places.
Alabaster walls
unseen – until
I hang a Van Gogh
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Haiku by Paradis
Paradis | November 3, 2009
As nature listens
a thunderstorm approaches -
closing the windows
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Haiku by Paradis
Paradis | November 3, 2009
Leaves of gold and brown
stitched together with yellow
autumn tapestries
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Haiku by Paradis
Paradis | October 28, 2009
I name you Joseph
with your coat of many colours
pretty butterfly.
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Haiku by Paradis
Paradis | October 28, 2009
Empty branches sway
in tune to the whistling wind
A sky full of birds.
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Paradis | October 28, 2009
Walking over the dunes
the sand warm under my feet
The sound of seagulls
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Haiku by Paradis
Paradis | October 22, 2009
The full moon’s brightness,
or the darkness of woodland -
The vixen ponders.
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Paradis | October 17, 2009
Outside my window
The birds sing a cappella
music to my ears
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Paradis | October 14, 2009
Bobbing in the surf
a yellow beach ball mimics
the shimmering sun.
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Paradis | October 13, 2009
Poppies lift their skirts
in the gentle summer breeze
teasing the barley
Paradis
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