Bird Haiku
by Narayanan Raghunathan
I pay the vendor
open the cage of birds ~
they fly away in melody ~
twin rainbows
loft the golden sky ~
cranes rest on spring waters
a cloud wall drifts
on the green mountains
sparrows at the door
water-melons float
on the river ~ swans make
way on the twilight sky
snow storm over~
a solitary sparrow ~
we hold hands
a dove in dhyaana
a squirrel squeals around
the dove shifts a little ~
smoke billows sunlight
a pigeon prunes feathers
a crow on a pole
hail storm ~
nightingales assemble
on the moon ~
a crow flies away
a dragonfly criss-crosses
cawing crows ~
awaiting rain
i look at the sky ~ birds
drift on clouds
sunlight sways on
crowns of leaves ~ a crow
traverses the sky
coffee aroma ~
morning birds drift
in spring breeze
a shooting star
a strange bird takes off
to the starry sky
breeze dissolves sun
sun blossoms again
swan pecks sun
a dove pecks
another dove prunes
the third dove is still
winter twilight
a yellow bird gently shifts
the wicket gate
winter beach
lone seagull traverses
the ancient sky
night thunder
a frog croaks
a bird replies
starry starry night ~
a wood pecker pecks
at astral silences
eagle hovers the sky
an earth worm crawls
on moist earth
volume 11(6)
This poem is copyright © 2007,
Narayanan Raghunathan, all rights reserved.
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