Raven flying
precise calligraphies
through red leaves

We stopped on the bridge
the time and the water
flowing quiet under us

House for sale —
the apricot tree in bloom
as never before

Emptiness of autumn —
in the guitar bursts
another string

A new sound
from an old instrument
spring thaw

On the frozen window
the cat scratches the moon
late evening

Workers waiting
over the boundary pass
hundreds of cranes

Fierce blizzard
frozen flowers on the glass . . .
your hot breath

Through the breach
of the rusty can —
the red poppy

Near the old wind mill
a cricket grinding
the stillness

Broken frame —
the blue river
remains in the picture

The night between years
I opened a full bottle
of new illusions

Horses to the wagon
the colt is coming after
following the footsteps . . .

News from afar
in the mail box —
cherry blossoms

Listening to the flight
of a thousand white paper cranes
a blind war veteran

The small pagoda
making the hill taller —
the evening coolness

Sea roaring
covers the town —
storm at the distance

Over the old pond
the leaf trembles on the branch —
another moment

Moonless night
and an owl's cry
from nowhere

Jogging on the alleys —
a girl and a dog
jumping over petals

Wedding night
two hedgehogs are crushed
on the smooth highway

The silence of night —
in the courtyard puddle
a chestnut and a star

And birds crying.
When they will know to sing
I will be far away

Blooming cockleburs —
at my parents house
no one waiting for me

A storm
the dandelion remained
only memory

Before me,
in my parents’ old house
a leaf comes in

Sunlit streets
other shadows
walk in pairs

From the bamboo pipe
a dragon fly is drinking:
the kabuki show

Many presents
beside Christmas tree -—
missing grandfather

Flying nowhere
black birds appearing out of
the painter's brush

Long after the song
of the first bird is over —
swaying cherry twig

A supernova
exploding in Universe
a cricket in the threshold

Yellowing trees
along the river Dâmbovita —
sun at sunset