I took this photo when I was bicycling and stopped when I saw the dandelions blossoming.

dandelions swarms -
world's end
cancelled

This one I sent to Japan-EU English Haiku Contest in Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/haikucontest

桜咲く
also our dandelion
as bright as the sun

(桜咲く - sakura saku - cherry blossom)


Label:
- Japan-EU English Haiku Contest...

No way to
tell you anything
more than
this one.

I got The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley 1975 - 2005. Thank you Amazon! I had already his Collected 1945-1975. This one is from Robert Creeley's Windows (1990).

Next one is my comment for that photo I took when seated near Hyde Park Corner a week ago. I was just listening.

Two pigeons
discussing
€u-politics?

Labels: Robert Creeley, Hyde Park Corner, EU

      silent forest

    a crow caws twice 

      then silence

This one is a variation, or a follow-up for my earlier themes...

a humming wind
but I do not remember
anything

on my bare head
this empty
wind

All that water
flowing in the river -
a drinking fish?

This is a combination from some sources; one idea from one, another idea somewhere else. Whether this a senryu, or not, is a trivial problem, I think.

Superfluous
man looks out the window -
an useless courtyard

Ps. My calendar says it is a Europe-day. Finland ought to support Portugal (as we have supported Iceland's and Greekland's...) My opinion is that we are stupid. Who is laughing? Deutche Bank? Banks in Spain? Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ?-(

This picture is "borrowed" from Tenzin Tsundue's Kora, stories and poems.

And this is part of the poem from page 11:

I didn't know
if I was there or here.
I didn't know
if I was here or there.

They say the kyang
come here every winter.

They say the kyang
go there every summer.

(Kyang - wild ass found in herds in Changthang (northern plains) of Tibet and Ladakh.)

Young boy coughing
a cigarette in his mouth -
dusty spring

sudden hailstorm
expected the asphalt
blooming, too

We got some hail yesterday, and when the hails melted the streets were undusty.

There is a similar text I wrote some years ago, where a gentle spring rain tried to get asphalt streets blossoming. .-)