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cries when nipples are withdrawn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