1
Trees long and tall, stars
Glimming over lonesome hut
I won't find you there
#2
First brown leaves inside
Sun still burning hot outside
Feel ground with bare feet
#3
Bees still not in deep
Slumber - buzzing, talking to
Keep silent man from
#4
Steep forest road and
Smooth, flat, golden mountain top
Like a shaved monk's head
#5
Mountain pass, swaying
Through yellow grass, people are
Nice. Is this the place
#6
Green waterfall carves
Stone blades, underneath wise man
Drinks beer without worry
#7
Travelers lost track
Came upon graveyard - dead end
River waters mourning
#8
Squirrel slowly starts
To gather supplies for cold
No clock or calendar
#9
Stone pebbles smoothened
River that goes anywhere
In a constant flow
#10
First leaves fell into
The stream; restless water wash
Them gently, pristine
#11
Moss on waterfall’s
Edge, solid rock on bottom
No desire to change
#12
River draws crazy
Patterns on silky smooth bed
Like glittering gold
#13
Pine cones falling with
Dull thump; CHUCK; out of the trees
And into the night
#14
Sea of green mountains
Clouds swim sluggishly, hiding
Silent love of the peaks
#15
Solitude of the
Mountains, higher you climb more
Silent it becomes
#16
Green grasshopper keeps
Company to dried, yellow
Grass of mountain steep
#17
Red hands freezing cold
Sister sun obscured by clouds
Changes are coming
#18
Old man's face shorn of
Wool, race is almost run; Man
Do not weep, do you
#19
Soul alone, harsh rain
Jack Kerouac my dear friend
You would understand
#20
It's dull cold inside
Lamp's light vaguely warm, tries to
Spot leaves on the ground
#21
Scrambled eggs, coffee
Layers of pristine bedsheets
Washed in mourning dew
#22
Night walk to bathroom
Leaves shiver in autumn's cold
Spider's offspring died
#23
Beetle sits on grass
Like crouched Buddha; don't worry
I won't step on you
#24
Silent rain touches
Leaves on the porch, I am safe
My Friend moth is too
#25
Annoying fly won't
Break the music of gentle
Rain; in paradise
#26
Fox stopped on the path
Looked with radiant cool eyes
Brief stop on his road
#27
Two Buddhas sit and
Contemplate existence of
Glimming spirit, rain
#28
The room bursts with steam
Pretty Ramen waitress, I
Fell in love with you
#29
Passing your station
I always look for a pair
Of your brown eyes; nothing
#30
To return to this
City; desolation, filth
Dreams of silent peaks
Mountain doldrums is a collection of 30
Haiku poems written during solitude in green mountains.
