Watching my every each step
Is the task at hand
So i’ll watch yours instead
Tag Archives: haiku
haiku and haibun etc.
Haiku, inscribed / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Inscribed my “Today- A letter!” haiku for Hongo Sensei into his book
Noble sentinel… / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Sentinel tree enjoys support
Of decommissioned trees
Liberally in olden growth
Shinto shrine employs… / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Shinto shrine employs extra Gods
To bless endless school kid trips
And impending foreign throngs
Continue reading Shinto shrine employs… / Shinkonryoko Ramble
(at the) Blanket café / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Cafe named for warmth
Presents 3 bread variations
Space for belonging, me and you
Continue reading (at the) Blanket café / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Explaining saké… / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Sushi hitherto unknown
Yet pressed into translation help
Explaining sake to Germans
Bamboo dish pointing…
Bamboo dish
pointing skyward listening
perhaps
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
Download Hot Springs and Stubbed Toe (.pdf)
Poetry snippets: handwritten, from Japan
Post office closed
(again)
You’ll need another
day to know
you are loved
by a lost poet
without a watch
Walking alone while
rain falls
Thinking of you
or rather, us –
Together, umbrella-less
Wisteria mystery
Found me before
I knew i was hidden
We lay in a field
Watching rice in breeze, lazily
A bench picnic, waving as
boats pass a castle, slowly
A tatami room…
With memories of
a poet forgotten to much
of history
He came to be
part of it all
meeting at least
halfway.
Not change or mock –
Somewhat to document.
Today! A letter –
Written as you ate a peach
In last weekend’s sun
10 years later…
10 years later
trees taller
concrete the same
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from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004
Download Hot Springs and Stubbed Toe (.pdf)
Assuming aluminum is smelted… / Towns and Trains
Mostly so i can answer Drs when they ask if significant exposure to heavy metals. Not more than others except for Geneva steel labourers. Never worked in an aluminum smelter assuming aluminum is smelted and changing pronunciation in my head, proudly on the fly.
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from Towns and Trains, Sudden poems 2016-2018