Haiga for November

A Hundred Gourds
A Hundred Gourds
Cattails

Tanka for Autumn

the autumn woods

leaves drop with a slowness

in the long shadows

unspoken woods of love

between us

gathering leaves

I can’t decide which to toss

pressed between

waxed paper

they still fade

reaching upward

the heavy limbs of the maple

dimmed by the mist

the eternal patterns of autumn

spread before me

Tanka Society of America

Bottle Rockets

Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society Journal

Haibun

                   

                                                                                  Eden

a drowsy autumn afternoon through the open window distant calls from children at play a slow moving breeze koto music from our Japanese neighbor you beside me asleep after loving your breathing easy and rhythmic

Paradise regained

a bumper crop of apples

in the orchard

CONTEMPORARY HAIBUN ON-LINE

April 2013