#haiku

If you were silent Flight of herons on dark sky... Oh! Autumn snowflakes! ↗

— Sokan

#herons #nature-s-beauty #beauty

forge forever on tho' dark death rewards us all forge forever on ↗

— Kurt Brindley

#poetry #death

The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things. . . . When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly. ↗

— R.H. Blyth

#zen #life

If I had the knack I'd sing like Cherry flakes falling ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#haiku #song #love

Beth from accounting is just sitting in her car eating spaghetti. ↗

— Ryan Mecum

#humor #zombies #humor

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#haiku #persistence #struggle #buddhism

Amorous cat, alas You too must yowl with your love... or even worse, without! ↗

— Yaha

#love #love

Old pond — frogs jumped in — sound of water ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#poetry-love-spirituality #love

You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield ↗

— Matthew Quick

#inspirational #optimism #inspirational

Secure in his flight Rider on the constant winds Hawk flies through his days Looks then to the east Prompted by fate’s gentle breeze Changes his intent Fate’s gentle breezes Move the mighty heart to change Destiny remade ↗

— Steve Robison

#inspirational #poem #poetry #change