One Year Home
One year since came home Splendid friends visit to see Most days blooms and tea haiku in okayama […]
Personal Musings
Shoebox
Backyard, seasons, life #haiku
In the backyard of a new lifeDrinking a weak warm cupWatching leaves change near Winter
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“Shortest Distance” / a postal haiku
Bend paper to findShortest distance between pointsOr apply a stamp Tushar Wadhwani provides details: “At 15,500 feet in Hikkim which
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Personal Musings
Watching steps… / Shinkonryoko Ramble (garden poetry in Kanazawa)
Along the way on our shinkonryoko (honeymoon) slow travel ramble, we rode all sorts of trains which are documented in
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Museum Exhibit: Kobayashi Issa (haiku master), museum and grave in Shinano, Nagano
In May 2019, Ryoko and I wandered around Japan on a shinkonryoko (honeymoon) with the aims of riding various trains,
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Haiku, inscribed / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Inscribed my “Today- A letter!” haiku for Hongo Sensei into his book
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Personal Musings
Noble sentinel… / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Sentinel tree enjoys support Of decommissioned trees Liberally in olden growth
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Shinto shrine employs… / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Shinto shrine employs extra Gods To bless endless school kid trips And impending foreign throngs
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Personal Musings
(at the) Blanket café / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Cafe named for warmth Presents 3 bread variations Space for belonging, me and you
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Personal Musings
Explaining saké… / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Sushi hitherto unknown Yet pressed into translation help Explaining sake to Germans
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Stubbed Toe
Bamboo dish pointing…
Bamboo dish pointing skyward listening perhaps ## from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004 Download Hot Springs and Stubbed
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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
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Stubbed Toe
10 years later…
10 years later trees taller concrete the same ## from Hotsprings and Stubbed Toe, Occasional haiku… 1992-2004 Download Hot Springs
Towns and Trains
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
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