Category: Haiku

Sky

Under April’s sky I watch our dissolution Falling on the ground         key words: rain, April, showers, spring

Under April’s sky
I watch our dissolution
Falling on the ground

 

 

 

 

key words: rain, April, showers, spring

Spending the Night with Grandmom

1.  Memory goes on I see you in the kitchen Frying quail eggs for me 2.  Calculating math Black US government pen You never erased     key words: grandmother, memory, longing, loss, haiku  

1.  Memory goes on

I see you in the kitchen

Frying quail eggs for me

2.  Calculating math

Black US government pen

You never erased

 

 

key words: grandmother, memory, longing, loss, haiku

 

Conversation in poetry

~Sakura (cherry blossom)~ centennial trees longing to see the motherland they bloom —From a Japanese friend, physician Yukari ban-Hatori Galileo saw Our anchors in the blue sky Great heaven of stars –A response by Janice Lynch Schuster Key words: Japan, cherry blossoms, homesickness, Galileo, depression      

~Sakura (cherry blossom)~

centennial trees
longing to see the motherland
they bloom

—From a Japanese friend, physician Yukari ban-Hatori

Galileo saw
Our anchors in the blue sky
Great heaven of stars

–A response by Janice Lynch Schuster

Key words: Japan, cherry blossoms, homesickness, Galileo, depression

 

 

 

Rise

Not a word is said, Our Easter Sunday dinner When ghosts come to town

Not a word is said,
Our Easter Sunday dinner
When ghosts come to town

Insomnia

I could never sleep. We will be dead for so long Grandmother warned me.

I could never sleep.
We will be dead for so long
Grandmother warned me.

Early morning

A woodpecker drills My silent, cold house settles With hopes of April

A woodpecker drills
My silent, cold house settles
With hopes of April