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Author: Bill Waters

Bill Waters looks at the world through haiku-colored glasses and likes what he sees. He lives in Pennington, New Jersey, U.S.A., with his wonderful wife and their two amazing cats.

home from work
the intimacy
and loneliness
of a shared wall

Posted on 3 June 20222 May 2022Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 22.1Tags haiga4 Comments on

point A
to point B …

is life
ever really
that simple

originally published on Instagram

Posted on 6 November 20216 November 2021Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 21.2Tags haiga2 Comments on

as if
I’m royalty —
blossoms beneath my feet

Posted on 4 April 201614 September 2025Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 16.118 Comments on

I practice
letting go . . .
autumn morning

Posted on 6 October 201422 September 2014Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 14.216 Comments on

never before
and never again
. . . cloud’s shadow

Posted on 23 April 201411 September 2025Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 14.17 Comments on

late afternoon—
a glimpse of sunlight
through her hair

Posted on 9 February 20116 February 2011Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 11.1Tags haiku, sunlight3 Comments on

cobwebs
fill the curve
of the snow shovel

Posted on 24 August 201023 August 2010Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 10.2Tags haiku, spiders, summer10 Comments on

low tide . . .
river mud glistens
pink in the setting sun

Posted on 7 June 201022 May 2010Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 10.1Tags haiku, river, sunset, water9 Comments on

riverside wedding —
the flower girl
picks a dandelion

Posted on 4 June 201022 May 2010Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 10.1Tags flowers, haiku, river, wedding6 Comments on

so like bones
the bone-white branches
of the birch tree

Posted on 23 February 2010Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 09.1Tags haiku, tree, winter17 Comments on

first stars . . .
the timer turns on
the X-mas lights

Posted on 11 December 200911 December 2009Author Bill WatersCategories Issue 09.1Tags christmas, haiku6 Comments on
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