#haiku

Inside Jade Hall is a curtain of pearls behind it lives a graceful girl her beauty transcends the immortals her skin is like that of a peach spring mists rise in the east autumn winds stir in the west thirty years from now she’ll look like chewed sugarcane ↗

— Cold Mountain

#beauty

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#fear #fearlessness #haiku #meditation #national-poetry-month

Here I'm here- the snow falling. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#nature #poetry #nature

Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldiers' dreams ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#samurai #wisdom #dreams

Dreams like a podcast, Downloading truth in my ears. They tell me cool stuff." "Apollo?" I guess, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad. He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred." "A god named Fred? ↗

— Rick Riordan

#fred #haiku #humor #percy-jackson #poem

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #grace #haiku #haikus

Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-quotations #grace #haiku #haikus #joy

If the world stops spinning, slowing to a crawl. I will continue to dream of you. Until, I no longer dream at all. ↗

— Jessica de la Davies

#manuel #poem #dreams

Dead my old fine hopes And dry my dreaming but still... Iris, blue each spring ↗