buddleia
flowers with deep purple blooms
a bank of lupins

sunset
the old rabbit's hair
shining with colors

holiday afternoon -
trenching out a garden bed
cooking for a neighbor

summer's leaves
swept away by chill winds
swifts' twilight screeching

we are young but once
time is fleeting
the rest of our days

American Haiku

Paradise

purple-blue hydrangeas
lush full
paradise in my garden

raspberries
go unpicked on the canes
discoloured path

after the rain

one bird, then another

singing the all clear

summer breeze
lilies swaying in the air--
of shakuhachi strains

grey clouds
over the rooftops
sparrows dart

one ice cube
twice the surrender
...endless O mes
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(C) 2011 Spiros Zafiris
..channeled; spirit Ram
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last drops -
a bee back
in the lavender

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dernières gouttes -
une abeille de retour
dans la lavande

morning heat haze
toadstools in the garden
dissolve

Bamboo

green shade -
bamboo stalks
carvings

dappled sun reins over the shady side if street
I stretch my long legs faster and faster

running the neighborhood
I seek summers riches
clouds of purple hydrangeas


July brings hot summer rays
heating my house beyond living
then, I seek my Air Conditioned room

summertime brings lazy days
humidity ruins all

summers clear blue sky's
happen only in June
humidity fill the rest of days

buttercups
brimming
with sunlight

faces to the sun  -
father mother children
daisies

self-seeded parsley
grows through pavement cracks
fish in the shallows

week's end-
plans for a ginko
during the fireworks

late honeysuckle
fills the evening air
sparks from the chimnea

midshift break-
enjoying the sunset
on a coffee run