Interdisciplinary Studies in Letters & Science

Haiku & Other Poems

Scott Hildreth

Ross, B. (ed.) 1993 Haiku Moment - An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku. Charles E. Tuttle Co. Inc. Boston


 

how visible

is water charged

with moonlight

                            - Ann Atwood

 

firefly there

 not there

    there

                                    - M. L. Bittle-DeLapa

 

 

crossing the table

beside a book on zen

the cockroach pauses

                                    - L. A. Davidson

 

                        migrating geese

        one falls farther and farther

behind

                                    - Charles Dickson




 

The silence after geese

        fade from sight

part of me following

                                       - David Elliott

 

 

Does that one star

        see me

            too?

                                    - Alexis Rotella

 



He knows

what the wind does at night.

He knows

who walks past on the sidewalk

when the moon shines down the chimney.

He knows

what the house smells like

when it is full of dreams.

                              - James, Betsy (1991) He Wakes Me. Orchard Books. NY

 


 

From Hopkins, Lee Bennett. (1995) Blast Off! Poems About Space.  Harper Collins.

 

                Moonlight

                On

                        the

                                dark

                                    lawn

                                    is a

                                    pale

                                    moon

                                path

                            just

                    for

            me

                                          -  Leslie Perkins

 

    The Falling Star

 

I saw a star slide down the sky,

Blinding the north as it went by,

Too burning and too quick to hold,

Too lovely to be bought or sold,

Good only to make wishes on

And then forever to be gone.

                                        - Sara Teasdale

 

Shooting Stars

 

When stars get loosened

in their sockets,

they shoot off through

the night like rockets.

But though I stay

and watch their trip

and search where they

have seemed to slip,

I never yet have found a chip

to carry in my pockets.

                                            - Aileen Fisher


Tu
eres tu presente,
tu manzana:
tomala
de tu arbol,
levantala
en tu mano,
brilla
como una estrella,
tocala,
hincale el diente y andate
silbando en el camino.

 

- Pablo Neruda

 

You
are
your present,
your own apple.
Pick it from
your tree.
Raise it
in your hand.
It's gleaming,
rich with stars.
Claim it.
Take a luxurious bit
out of the present,
and whistle along the road
of your destiny.

 


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