2 haiku: 2010 World Cup

Soccer ball
aimed at wet seagull
going home

Vuvus blare
I long for the bees
of summer

© Sara P. Dias (South Africa)
Both first published in Asahi Haikuist Network, July 16, 2010.

haiku: snow

Below 0°
snowflakes touch portholes
no face alike
First published: Asahi Haikuist Network, Feb. 19, 2010
© Sara Dias

3 haiku: returning to work

I stretch time
Holiday photos
on my desk
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Footprints in hot sand
A wave of pedestrians
wipes out yesterday
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Her swells and
troughs linger on shore
Desk dreamer

© Sara Dias

4 haiku: Milky Way

In small hands
sparklers cast spiral
galaxies

Timeless play
dawn frays the tail end
of night’s arc
First published: Asahi Haikuist Network, July 17, 2009.

Owl asks who?
A billion stars wink
knowingly

Evening dress
Milky Way girdles
dashing earth

© Sara Dias

3 haiku: summer rain flowers

Out of blue
irises summer
skies unfurl

Falling sky
Blue hydrangeas cloud
the garden

Blue iris
tongues uncurl to catch
water pearls
First published: Asahi Haikuist Network, June 19, 2009.

© Sara Dias

2 haiku: summer rain

Spider’s web sparkles
Pendent summer raindrops long
for the swelling sea

In haste, summer clouds
leave countless rainbows behind
Iridescent trout
© Sara Dias

haiku: green distance

Etch’d against far hills
her lime scarf turns feldgrau:
he stops waving
© Sara Dias
Published: Asahi Haikuist Network, April 30, 2010

6 back to school haiku

Small feet drag:
ringing bells cause buds
to quiver
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Paper planes
trail fragile petals…
first bell rings
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Spring break ends:
teacher’s pet plucks the
first apple.
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Spring-break tales:
book turns own pages
in fresh breeze
First published: Asahi Haikuist Network, April 3, 2009.
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Ribbon snatch’d;
ponytail undone:
gleeful spring
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School kicks off:
discarded lunch lies
on green field
© Sara Dias

Sakura seduction

Lida’s photo of a cherry tree in Koishikawa Korakuen, Tokyo.
© Lida Kotze: photo
Tree drips pink
before clouds gather:
leapfrogs spring
© Sara Dias

Nippon Lida

Mighty sneeze:
plum powders her nose
with blossoms
© Sara Dias

3 moon haiku

A quicksilver tail
returns the moon to the sky …
cold light blinks cat’s-eye
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Behind waves
a fin cuts the moon …
warm evening
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A crack’d moon:
nude oaks finger an
icy face
© Sara Dias

4 autumn haiku

Bright orange
colours the water:
thoughts are quenched
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The last leaf,
an imminent kiss:
yellow pond
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Shiny stepping stones;
ginkgo leaves on bright water:
a hesitation
-
He looks for a smile
on ochre-dappled water …
leaves disrupt her face
© Sara Dias

Sleepvoet Winter

Lente hap-hap aan
die sleepvoet Kaapse Winter;
my Prozac gemoed
© Sara Dias

precious

lazy summer sun
faces eager autumn moon:
i shine silver-gold
© Sara Dias

Vernal I and II

Vernal I
desperate young doves
dodging the cruel cawing crows -
virile spring is near
Vernal II
far from the city
i dwell in birdsung stillness:
spring’s chitter-chatter
© sara dias