poetry

1

count not the ways
not the words
not the days
my love
begins
ends

2
see the darkness
hear the silence
shadows
light
high pitch
low bass
mute

3
stars lost sights
sun its head
moon her skin
winds die
rain wet
deny

4
words loud
mind shouts
eyes open
mouth shuts
smiles drop

haiku7---by Louise Zhang

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1
chatty raindrops
keep up the wet monologue
all night long


2
in the process of dying
no one knows what's in the mind of the dying
he is on his own


3
with wintry fury
ocean waves assault the morning coast
an indifferent shore


4
what do you see
looking into the kaleidoscope of death
a shattered heaven


5
a drugged mind
a stormy landscape of psychic chaos
artificially tranquillized


6
dances
endeavour to visualize the nonverbal
for the eyes


7
shelter residents
under the roof of organized benevolence
sleep with hope


8
ripe apples fall
knocking the intelligence of Isaac Newton
out of grandpa's head


9
waking from a dream
I remember I am speaking English
oh, an American dream


10
mossy hangings
from the winter's old oak trees
green dreadlocks


11
Roman fountain
up shoots its ancient memories
from marble basin


12
locking himself indoors
the bemused poet wrestles
to gain sublimity


13
the restroom
a place to hurry into and
out, at ease


14
have lived
in a dream and died
out of it


15
knitting by the window
Mrs. Wallstreet appears unmistakably Chinese
as on Ibsen's stage


Notes: A Doll House: Helmer commenting on Mrs. Linde: You know what? You should embroider instead. .... Yes, because it's a lot prettier. See here, one holds the embroidery so, in the left hand, and then one guides the needle with the right--so--in an easy, sweeping curve---right? ......But, on the other hand, knitting--it can never be anything but ugly. Look, see, here, the arms tucked in, the knitting needles going up and down--
there's something Chinese about it.


16
little birds in the rain
chirp away on the tree's wet branches
rinsing their notes


17
thick snow lies
on the huge frosty pane of skylight
a blocked view


18
Vincent Van Gogh
fires his deliriums of yellow and blue
onto a starry night


19
a lonely boat
tossed violently in the swift white water
holding its unstable mind


20
on a backlit stage
muted figures appear tiptoeing back and forth
then retreat


21
the condemned bandit
executed in water colour
date unknown


22
cat sculptures
free flowing contours hardened into stone
solid fur


23
with relentless enthusiasm
peach and pear trees in spring
pop up their buds


24
a pleasant anarchy
oil tubes vomit their tainted emotion onto canvas
modern abstract painting


25
a studio artist
hijacks a piece of nature to his canvas
and sells the fugitive


26
a foreclosed house
filled with emptied space and evicted presence
on the market again


27
many an American dream
ripped open at their seams and stitches
demands needle work


28
the undefeated poet
forces his muse to advance with her invasion
claims three lines of new territory


29
she follows her heart
like the blind following inner dark luminosity
with steady gaze


30
the best seller
regurgitates violence and perverted sexuality
feeding a starved readership


31
rain lets up for a while
giving the wet world a moment of change
yes, it can


32
Vincent Van Gogh
enriched by the poor and the deprived
shoots his own heart


33
the figure drawing artist
enlarges the breasts of the model on stage
a personal intervention


34
a group of beer bottles
emptied of contents by last night's gathering
wordless in solidarity


35
a Buddhist monk
picks a single blade of grass from the field
does he hear Emerson?


36
dark furrows of land
stretch as far as the eye can see
vines of growth


37
a seal of his personality
the artist spreads a layer of oil paint
then a first class stamp


38
she smiles broadly
stretching the lines over her cheekbones
a smoother expression


39
a singer laments
her smoky voice smells cigarettes and beer
a cowboy's story


40
grandpa is dozing
no one knows what dreams he now dreams
just that he is dreaming

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

a black horse

a black horse

stands by the fence

it can hear

but it can't see

it's a blind horse

it's an old horse

it used to be the fastest horse at the race



A black horse

all alone

its eyes have tears

its head down

its nose cold

its hair long

it is a blind horse

it has seen better days



A blind horse

walks on the grass

sun is soft

birds are away

it remembers the racing days

blind-folded

winds in its ears

it ran like shooting arrow

it's known as black lightning



A blind horse

a burnt out star

an old tale

by the fire place

it can still hear

but it can't see

the blind black horse

stands by the fence

haiku 3--by Louise Zhang

1.
a big tomato
shouts bloody murder through the blender
to a crimson silence

2.
to a roast chicken
oh, Lord, give to each his own death
diner picks up a fork

3.
she rests her cheek
on the page, where an old castle happens
to have crumbled down

4.
when the cat dies
a full bag of its secret wishes
will be completed

5.
winds are blowing
forcing leaves to face their mortality
in a falling rose petal

6.
she avoids cats now
in their inalienable rights to solitudes
she remains unforgiven

7.
an old spinster
is like a single stocking in a drawer
never being matched up

8.
her gluttonous delights
an indulgence in eating donuts, is offset
with a large black coffee

9.
he peed profusely
two ants survived to bear witness
to their world flood

10
time glides into space
old life has advanced into new death
a French challenge

11.
the cat closes its eyes
forcing the world to reckon with
her indifference

12.
black cat Madam Miao
is capable of changing an old woman
into a baby girl

13.
where am I
the boy goes behind the mirror
searching for himself

14.
how far is Heaven
the distance is between the prayers
and the church bell

15.
a romantic soul
the homeless poet recites Rilke in the rain
without an umbrella

16.
the black fat crow
a noisy minstrel, sings to upset
its casual audience

17.
in the last song
of the swan, a death is born
to a ballet story

18.
the curtain of the stage
falls over her eyes, shutting up
the world inside

19.
the world is only
as wide and big as the opening of
his dear little heart

20.
a stone cathedral
holding bishop's penetrating eyes
silently confessional

21.
the cat with green eyes
understands her rhythmic existence
hides out for three days

22.
pregnant with inward thoughts
teapot avails its sprout to the
heated leafy eloquence

23.
the frozen lake
seals all the sounds from the depth
hears an icy silence

24.
calendar on the wall
stares square back day after day
a stubborn insistence

25.
after training, the dog
finds its adopted existence between
having bones and boneless

26.
fleeting intensity
thunder rolls through tree tops, turning
the scared boy into a poet

27.
a full moon hangs low
a dog barks at her bright immediacy
from a balcony

28.
when grandma sees
a cat is taking a nap with a rat
she praises the Lord

29.
if one contemplates hard
yellow pages will turn to deep red
call this poetry making

30.
my black cat lies lazy
watching human dramas acted out daily
nodding, coy and arrogant


31.
freshness after snow storm
fills winter day with spring yawning
a pale green over white

32.
mirror stares back
not to seduce a lover, but to
induce a reflection

33.
old clock strikes one O'clock
the deep aged gaggle of the long dead
a rebuke every afternoon

34.
I open the Bible
angels, pearl gate, a tired ancient God
the Christian Heaven


35.
a bird's noisy singing
recorded by a poet's metered words
immortalizing

36.
an old rusty gate
such a philosophical charm
to stand on its either side

37.
the black cat stays away
too much love from the mistress
without its permission

38.
a pair of homeless eyes
wanders along the contour of houses
finds a door in a Lily

39.
a mop dripping
wet tiredness
against the sink

40.
a familiar face
passes by
stranger