haiku 6 -- by Louise Zhang

1.
palmetto fan
stirs tropical breeze over faces
leafy cool delights

2.
a defiant cat
within striking distance of my thoughts
refuses to turn her cheek

3.
blue range of mountains
silently pledges to stand on their feet
forever and forever

4.
you can live with us
but if you get bored that is
your own burden

5.
thoughts flourish
turning a mind into a jungle
the thinker gets lost

6.
near and dear
the children are close to Heaven,
until they find hell

7.
a vow of secrecy
the most powerful bondage
enslaves and redeems

8.
a cat in my face
no matter how hard I gaze
it remains a cat

9.
boyfriend asks girl
did you kiss him last night
o... yes, but I don't like it

10.
a certifiable mind
tries to wiretap its own impulses
self shrinking

11.
on a very crowded bus
a carefully dressed lady looks around
niches into a window seat

12.
parties come and go
the interests of Nation alone stand
dictates to a president

13.
"Lady Chatterly's Lover"
lies steamy in the hot sun
wears jacket

14.
a tight smile
stretches with effort to express
a deep reluctance

15.
unsettled self conscience
munches away at her aging girlishness
delights an onlooker

16.
old wooden planks
broken and rotten with age
a cat walks them

17.
wifedom and motherhood
one more function to the female trinity
breadwinner

18.
modern drama
is delivered in A Doll House
audiences watching

19.
the poet cries
when he comes up with the following
a line drops dead

20.
sipping black coffee
his thoughts get darker and stronger
he adds milk and sugar

21.
a happy housewife
cooks meals and English haiku
without seaweed

22.
his writings
smelling of strong tobacco
cough out of pages

23.
window
closes out wind and rain
closes in sunshine

haiku 5--by Louise Zhang

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1.
a little baby
cries when nipples are withdrawn
big sorrows

2.
thunder rolls
rain dumps down on dry lands
a wet apologia

3.
classical books on mantle
silently display to the old clock
their staying power

4.
oil pipes are on
petroleum rushes through to Ukraine
from Russia with love

5.
his fingers drill
notes pop up from the piano keys
an A major

6.
clouds move in
overcast her mood with Oxford gray
English tea time

7.
the green leaves of summer
forever fresh and green in the air
Roger Williams

8.
wind dies down
like a spoiled runaway lover
after a tantrum

9.
piano notes
run wild on airwaves
chased by drumstick

10.
sleepy shoes
tired from long hiking yesterday
still unrested

11.
waves, rocking
the sleepy shores in small hours
deep in blues

12.
a fallen leaf
adrift on a small slow stream
a lingering moment

13.
a tall gray wall
looms through the thick brushes
solidly imposing

14.
the Copeland Creek
going quietly her small way
to join the Russian River

15.
dough rises in the oven
its exaggerated size and texture
settles into a bread

16.
she writes poems in
one line and calls them
lonely ones

17.
the centre of flowers
Nature has placed sexuality
in this proper place

18.
a reservoir
volumes of water pile up
behind the dam

19.
obituaries
register peaceful passages
away in its pages

20.
death is peaceful
after a noisy commotion
to leave the body

21.
a butterfly
does not eat butter, but only
flutters by

22.
camera shutter
aiming at a composition
includes and excludes

23.
tumbling over the curb
she falls over her own shadow
double painful

24.
water dries up
wet mud, twigs and rocks
show themselves

25.
cold dislikes
are not warmed up by hot tea
and exchange of greetings

26.
a tune smith
a nightingale releases a flourish
of tunes into air

27.
a bar stool
still warm before a candle light
alone with the jukebox

28.
a steel guitar
spills notes above the thumping band
a metallic echoing

29.
a cowboy's fingers
pick raw the aching intensity of
a lost soul

30.
mist spreading
its haunting white ambiguity
slowly fills the valley

31.
a dog barks
kick-starts a morning of potentials
with a bad poem

32.
a single bird chirps
like a song that hits home
turns grove blue

33.
a single old oak
shares an ancient moment of solitude
with a blind cow

34.
Christian crusaders
found One Thousand and One Nights
in Arabian land

35.
courtly love
a knight woos a married woman
worn-out romance

36.
first winter rain
turns the aging hillsides
maiden green

37.
a lady to a gladiator
flesh is mightier than the sword
try me if you doubt


38.
a dark crow
follows a nameless homeless man
to his unmarked grave

39.
winter blizzard
the earth groans under thick snows
white terror reigns

40.
darken with time
the evening sky hastens to
tuck in the sun

haiku4----by Louise Zhang

1.
an old mop
dripping wet tiredness
against the sink

2.
thorny thoughts
fight their way out of
cactus

3.
toasted rice
steeping in hot green tea
brown, relaxing

4.
busy bees
start a communist movement
pollinating flowers

5.
a frog leaps
across my path, claiming
its right of way

6.
puddles of rain
floating fallen leaves
here and there

7.
on the table
one pepper shaker stands
alone

8.
before a mirror
applying thick red lipstick
prepare to love

9.
waves rush in
change shore line
at will

10.
Bush, the installer
democracy made in USA
on your land

11.
large clouds
sink cozily in sunset
puffy satisfaction

12.
Beijing‘s hot pot
charcoals burning in the chimney
heated appetite

13.
grandma dozes off
poems of Yeats rest on her lap
unvoiced

14.
single-minded
the wind has only one duty
blowing

15.
an old junk
rises its rusty bow to the sky
time goes by

16.
seagulls skip
over the white waves
timing the rush

17.
a moon above
an earth beneath
I stand

18.
a homeless mind
finds a bed in Nietzsche's thoughts
lays itself down

19.
jail complex
lights from the bared windows
stare at freedom

20.
a narrow lane
across from the jail house
leads to homeless shelter

21.
wide-eyed headlights
see through thick morning fog
cars and cars

22.
a gust of wind
rushing hoofs of cowboy's horses
over the rocks

23.
old flower tea cozy
in the warm belly of hers
steaming tea

24.
lemon yellow tulips
holding sun's noon restfulness
with long- stem cups

25.
a bright eyed crow
walks among the fallen leaves
thoughtful and intense

26.
coming to terms
with her mortality, she declares
"I could care less"

27.
he writes his will
make sure it is made known that
he refuses to die peacefully

28.
a tumbler half full
with liqueur, leaving the other half
empty of spirit

29.
a cat leaves its footprints
on the door steps of the Sheriff's house
intentionally

30.
a Windsor chair
as gentle as an old New Englander
silent by a tea pot

31.
swollen armchairs
red with old age, restful and sleepy
on carpeted floor

32.
tea cup in hands
she stares into the sunlit space
a sunnier vision

33.
sun light, roaming
settles down in an empty couch
localizes her warmth

34.
candle light flickers
throwing oblong shadows on the wall
willful with perspective

35.
"I am ready", she says
seeing the light, hearing the drum
she passes away

36.
a lizard of thin tail
doing push ups on the rock
when the sun heats it

37.
a small run-down barn
dots the rolling stretches of green grass
with bygone days

38.
widely spaced teeth
stand up on his withered gum
like fence poles

39.
flying in slow circle
a fly makes light buzzes in the air
content to annoy

40.
winding through darkness
a mountain road stretches at every turn
to face a full moon