New Zealand Haiku

Here are a selection of some of my New Zealand Haiku:

haiku - 1960 miners lake waihi

cold winter morning
old woman walks beside lake
wild duck beg for crumbs.

haiku - 1978 kaimai

moonrise far at sea
morepork calls from rimu stump
possum on hut roof.

haiku - 1985 rainbow station

derelict farmhouse
swallow nest in old stable
wild rose at back gate.

haiku - 1988 kowhai

kowhai flowers fall
Ranginui warms Papatu-
summer sunshine soon.

(In Maori legend, Ranginui is the Sky Father and Papatuanuku the Earth Mother).

haiku - night heron

early before dawn
night heron feeding near shore
shrill cry in darkness.

haiku - 1985 mountain pool

frozen mountain pool
your look takes my breath away
fish swim beneath ice.

haiku - 1986 mount hikurangi

mist covered mountain
dogs wind evening breeze
hunting at first light.

haiku - 2000 whale song

off kaikoura coast
leviathan flukes surface
whale song at sunset.

haiku - 2000 katikati

katikati dawn
heron call from river mouth
raindrops on mural.

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