10 WINGED HAIKUS

    1.

White handkerchiefs
four seagulls say
goodbye to the sky.

    2.

To see the dawn
by the scale of the song
the lark ascends.

    3.

On the ground
the doves applaud
and fly away.

    4.

The swallow
lets fall on the water
its fine shadow.

    5.

Keels in the wind,
the pelicans set sail
in the old port.

    6.

In its cage,
the airless mockingbird
sings its sorrows.

    7.

The humming bird
from one jump to another
makes the whole garden iridiscent.

    8.

From snow and mother-of-pearl
through the intact blue
the heron flees.

    9.

In the wood
the nightingales
tune their flageolets.

    10.

The turtledove
comes to my window
from Umbria.