closing time
a stepladder holds
the last light
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Dietmar Tauchner
Dietmar Tauchner, born in 1972 in Austria, lives & works in Puchberg & Vienna, as a social-worker / counselor, author and lover. His work has been published in various magazines & anthologies worldwide. He received some awards, as the Taisho (Grand Prize) at the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto, Japan, in 2013; and attended the First and the Second European Haiku Conference, The Haiku North America Conference in 2005, as well as the World Haiku Association Conference 2009 in Lithuania, where he held lectures and readings. Co-Director of 4 short Haiku Films. www.bregengemme.net View all posts by Dietmar Tauchner
Very nice!
When night blacks out the horizon
The gaze is invited upward by twinkling stars
Sky reveals his inner depth
Honoring the poignancy at the end of the workday…
Ah, well observed!
marion
The snowflakes shine bright,
White, majestic, complex, light,
Shining in the night
Well posed Dietmar!
__ In my shallow intellect, the last light may always be another shining thought; a step up the ladder.
ideas climb
this ladder of many steps
notions light
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closing time
a stepladder holds
the last light
—DIETMAR TAUCHNER
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As youngsters many of us probably saw ladders of all designs as magical contraptions to visit places beyond the ordinary 'normal' world. A place to escape, if only for a few moments…
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northern lights
a boy makes a ladder
out of his telescope
Alan Summers
Journal of The British Haiku Society:
Blithe Spirit, 24:3, August 2014
Chinese Translation (Traditional)
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Chinese Translation (Simplified)
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Chinese versions by Chen-ou Liu
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up the stair
toward sound
of rain