A Dream
How unfettered we fly in dreams o’er fields of corn and mustard greens. With our hands upon a throttle we peer thru pale blue bottles. Filled with scents of chamomile and rye, Powder-puff...
Read MoreA Bond of Friendship and Work
Aroma of fresh cut wood permeates the house, as my friend and now employee installs a Red Oak floor. Already my hall and study are done. and his hand-crafted bookshelves line the now mint...
Read MoreWide Views
vast grassy field… a bed of yellow flowers hides a fallen nut crystal lake… creeping potato vines tease a budding lily the fast lane… cars roll over a pothole in...
Read MoreSnapshots (iv)
October fun guffaws and jests blend with mugs of beer chirping with hidden cicadas whistling kettle full moon the tail of a shadow disappears Halloween night leaving the main gate ajar long...
Read More7 Haiku/Senryu
a school of koi… even more color to the pond man-made lagoon… my sense of belonging awakens monitor fish scrubs from under the lagoon siesta time… filled-up benches...
Read MoreNature’s Haiku
NATURE’S WAY Busy bees help nature recuperate from oblivion. MORNING CALL A thousand chirps from a nearby tree at dawn. SUMMER JOB Bee hovers from a fragrant papaya: it lasts all...
Read MoreMoon Haiku and Others
OASIS An oasis drawn silently on canvas comforts the mind. MOON SNAPSHOTS Moon snapshots mystically still I stand mesmerized. MOONLIGHT SONATA A nightingale gamely offers moonlight...
Read MoreMixed Haiku/Senryu
mouth waters… a plump chicken sits on an open fire a long busy grind… the rooster’s loud shrill ends the cold night’s silence Peking ducks quack as eggs roll over...
Read MoreHaiku Fragments
yellow fledglings with their protective mother paddle playfully the rising heat swiftly envelopes the Bermuda grass sighs of the lagoon… I ponder silently under a grass hut hungry...
Read MoreGarden Talk Haiku
HEAVEN I grow heaven in my garden. MY NEST I transplant black pines, magnolias and fir trees building my nest. DOVE I spot a white-tailed dove breaking some twigs. WARBLER Let’s spy...
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