(Haiku/Senryu linked) Zen influenced poetry

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Old Man sleeps in shade
His skin now too big for him
Dreams of summers past,

His sparse uncut lawn
With patches of dirt & moss
Sprouting, defiant,

With long grass, windblown,
Back, forth: A Mexican wave
Of pointy green stalks.








This is a haiku/senryu chain. Has anyone tried any of these?

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Breezy sunlit day
Daffodils blown by the wind
Now talk to the grass,


A dozen roses
Climbing a broken trellis
All so very red,


Some Canada geese
In loud honking formation
What is their problem?


Broken dragonfly
A sad rainbow of colour
On a wet footpath,


Anthill: City of
A million soldiers all
so very busy,


Bumble bee bounces
Here & there; he looks so drunk
On living & flight:
All of these things I recall
Reflected in my mind's eye.