Wednesday Haiku No 26

So many things are happening this week and as usual, the world is in an uproar. Most of the uproar is hypocritical rock throwing by a very evil fake-snowflake generation who get their virtue from public displays of self righteous indignation. We don't need to join the uproar, we can step out of it. Let's take a step back and away from  to the sane and safe world of Haiku where nature subdues evil with calm.

                 Double-Edged

Into the darkness

 which a lightning-streak

Has Slashed...

recedes the wild night-heron's shriek. 
 --Basho               

nacreous :mother of pearl clouds

                                   Marine

The midnight sky:

an oyster shell

aswirl with nacreous flakes 

of cloud;

The moon: a pearl.

            ----Ho-O

 


                  Seaside Sketch

A gloomy downpour,

pierced by shafts of light;

Out on the glittering sea,

the sails are white!

---Shido

Most Precious Possession

Still on my window sill

the moonlight is left.

 The thief overlooked it

in his theft.

Ryokan