Haiku is a short poem, often written in the classical three-line form of 5-7-5 syllables, that attempts to convey one’s perception of a moment and how the essence of that moment connects nature to human nature.

The following haiku are here for you to enjoy. Please feel free to share your poetic observations.

Freshly fallen snow
Silence and confinement
Courtesy of nature

Fearing the darkness
and the stillness, arises from
what is within us

Time flies, time stands still
In the present moment
Everything just is

Seeing the world as it is
Feeling the wind within you
Just being

Listening without judging
Teaching without instruction
A true friend

Success in all things
Comfort and safety secured
Salvation is lost

An ordinary house
Moved by her extraordinary hand
Exudes warmth

Oneness underlies
pervading all things that are
interconnected

Superiority
Inferiority
Foolish delusions

No likes, no dislikes
Beginner’s mind, open mind
The path to being

Hope diminishes
Despair completely embraced
Progress is likely

Too futile the charade
Abandon your very self
Embrace emptiness

Confidence waning
Arrogance diminishing
Darkness is fading

Wise for posterity
Those who state the obvious
For the first time

This Post Has 21 Comments

  1. Carol

    This is the most loving thing anyone has ever done for me. Thank you, Bill.

    Looking in, or out;
    Ev’ry brushstroke is perfect
    Painted with the heart.

  2. Carol

    serene mountain peak
    with warm open heart, accepts
    freshly fallen snow
    -carol

    freshly fallen snow
    silence and confinement
    courtesy of nature
    -bill

    courtesy of nature
    the first snowflake is unseen
    the last, unnoticed
    -sid

  3. Carol

    sitting on the edge
    of endless, eternal void
    fearing the darkness
    -sid

    fearing the darkness
    and the stillness; arises from
    what is within us
    -bill

    what is within us
    is what we are within; the
    pure heart of being
    -carol

  4. Carol

    chewing sticky rice
    washing empty wooden bowl;
    time flies, time stands still
    -carol

    time flies, time stands still.
    in the present moment,
    everything just is
    -bill

    everything just is.
    in trying to grasp it all,
    the whole truth is lost
    -sid

  5. Carol

    dreaming that I am
    still half asleep, I wake up!
    seeing the world as it is
    -sid

    seeing the world as it is
    feeling the wind within you
    just being
    -bill

    just being,
    the lonely winter forest
    feels the kiss of spring
    -carol

  6. Carol

    silently screaming,
    thoughts cloud the empty sky…no
    listening without judging
    -sid

    listening without judging,
    teaching without instruction,
    a true friend.
    -bill

    a true friend
    is found nowhere in this world.
    true love is no-thing
    -carol

  7. billnad

    Thanks for sharing, fellow haiku-ers!

  8. Carol

    Thank you, Bill! I enjoy communicating in weird little haikus, so I appreciate you providing this opportunity. I feel comfy cozy at recusive.com.

    Sid and I sold the hermitage this year and are living 50 miles apart now. We got too old for all the difficulties of survival up there. I still live in a hut though…400 sq. ft. this time!

    When Sid gets back up here, we will finish the rest of the haiku links. If you write more, we will link more. I enjoy haiku-ing with you.

    I see the timer as a massive multiplayer online gaming community with a spiritual theme. Mostly I have gone there the last year to hang around with you, and to listen to the guided meditations. I am alone so much of the time that I find them to be good company. I don’t really need a practice timer; I “practice” all the time! The Hermit Hut is interesting. I only invited you and Sid; and yet they come… to do nothing.

    Peaceful hugs….

    1. billnad

      And yet, by doing nothing, they do everything …

  9. Carol

    embers hiss and pop.
    quietly tending the fire,
    success in all things
    -carol

    success in all things
    comfort and safety secured
    salvation is lost
    -bill

    salvation is lost
    I forgot where I put it
    was it ever there?
    -sid

  10. Carol

    imagination,
    with crude building plans; constructs
    an ordinary house
    -carol

    an ordinary house
    moved by her extraordinary hand
    exudes warmth
    -bill

    exudes warmth
    always at home in the heart
    sit around the fire
    -sid

  11. Carol

    one is too many
    emptiness is infinite
    oneness underlies
    -sid

    oneness underlies,
    pervading all things that are
    interconnected
    -bill

    interconnected…
    even oneness is too far
    from the truth
    -carol

  12. Carol

    temple cook honored
    the simple monk wonders why
    superiority
    -sid

    superiority
    inferiority
    foolish delusions
    -bill

    foolish delusions…
    even blind to the truth;
    all is clearly seen
    -carol

  13. Carol

    suffering and joy
    just different shades of grey
    no likes, no dislikes
    -sid

    no likes, no dislikes
    beginners mind, open mind
    the path to being
    -bill

    the path to being
    no beginning, no ending
    we are always here
    -carol

  14. Carol

    future desires, and
    past regrets; all illusions!
    hope diminishes
    -sid

    hope diminishes
    despair completely embraced
    progress is likely
    -bill

    progress is likely…
    nowhere to go, nothing to do;
    no need for progress
    -carol

  15. Carol

    who are you really?
    you can not hide from yourself
    too futile the charade
    -sid

    too futile the charade
    abandon your very self
    embrace emptiness
    -bill

    embrace emptiness
    give a hug, get a hug
    no one left outside
    -carol

  16. Carol

    lost…are we alone?
    is it all the mind of God?
    confidence waning
    -sid

    confidence waning
    arrogance diminishing
    darkness is fading
    -bill

    darkness is fading…
    suddenly i see the light!
    darkness never was.
    -carol

  17. carol

    my crunching footsteps
    even with these noisy jays
    a walk in silence

  18. carol

    spring rain
    in the forest pond
    a deeper green

  19. Colin P Berry

    Colin

    an endless night sky
    swirling into the beyond
    slipping past the stars

  20. billnad

    Thank you Colin!

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