✦ Echoes of Silence

✦ Echoes of Silence A Small Haiku Journal ✦ Preface Haiku is the art of seeing — a single moment held still, where nature whispers what the heart cannot. This journal gathers three paths: sorrow, mystery, and light. Each path is brief, yet endless in its echo. Part I: Fallen Shadows (Haiku of Sorrow) 1. Falling autumn leaves, hearts scatter with the silence, no dawn to return. 2. Soft rain on my face, yet the sorrow will not fade — a shadow remains. 3. A broken half-moon, searching through the heavy clouds for a friend it lost. 4. Evening wind arrives, opening my window wide, leaving nothing there. 5. Morning sun appears, washing all the night away, I am born again. Part II: Silent Symbols (Haiku of Mystery) 1. A lone dark cloud drifts, the mountain does not answer, shadows fade to dusk. 2. River on a stone — names of countless passersby washed into silence. 3. Almond tree in bloom, whispers hide among the petals, a secret unseen. 4. Broken silver moon, half sinks into the still lake, half remains in sky. 5. Northern wind scatters ashes over empty fields — the night softly smiles. Part III: Toward the Dawn (Haiku of Renewal) 1. Deep and silent night, a single step in the dark searches for the dawn. 2. Faint horizon glow, the silence begins to breathe — morning almost here. 3. Spring wind through the grass, lifting the weight of the earth, soft laughter returns. 4. First ray of sunlight breaks open the heavy sky — all shadows retreat. 5. In the rising sun my hands feel strangely lighter, as if they are new. ✦ Closing Every shadow falls, every silence finds its voice — in the light of dawn.