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This book will also include senryu, renga and tanka. The possibility exists for a haibun or two as well.

A few poems for the first page or scroll.

Nuthatches chatter walking upside down on trees, like backward zippers. Small crystal teardrops branches hold rain at their tips &ndas..

Young crows stand watching underneath the bird feeder. Hurry up, squirrel! Christmas coffin ships: from deep woods to living rooms th..

This includes the history of haiku, something about the ancient haiku masters, and the differences between traditional and modern haiku poetry.

A blizzard descends fog and sailboat merge as one – cricket sings alone Thrushes start their song before sunrise on this the longes..

A real mixture here -- this is still a draft, remember!

Haibun: haiku and/or senryu woven in and amongst prose

window to window she chases snow-blown leafbirds hunting from inside Numbered and stacked tall truck ahead holds timber logs prelude to ..

Some previously-posted haiku are found and gathered here, as well as some new-to-here poems.