Lovers haiku I He sits beside her Remember being in love? The room fills with light -for two strangers in a San Diego coffee shop Lovers haiku II Soft leaf patterns fold dawn’s sun touch draws them closely breathing together. Lovers haiku III Dream sweetly beneath Blue and white memory quilt Recalling nothing. Lovers haiku … [read more]
Poems
Ojai
Ojai haiku I Me at forty-five afternoon grows cloudy still cold wet night ahead. Ojai haiku II Sunshine breaking through streams rush down after the rain sage smells best when wet 5.13.1998
Home from Mesa Verde
Home From Mesa Verde Luminous ideas of clouds, soft billowing pillows adrift, moist Pacific exhalations float across Colorado from west to east. Ancestral Puebloan songs fill the forest outside our house when we are still. Drum beats and voices harmonize with the distant song of the Burlington, Northern & Santa Fe two-thousand feet below. Smoke … [read more]
Japan Haiku 1
Japan haiku I Summer Sendai rain my first home in damp shadows bright Cascade cloudburst. for Ozeki-san Utsunimiya, 4 July, 1996
Thank you
Thank you Dear friends fill my house The ones to live and die with Sun sets, as it should. August, 2003 Following my 50th birthday
Winter
Winter Haiku 1 Vast clear azure sky Blankets of dazzling new snow Winter days like these. 12.20.07