haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

: Name: Bill; Location: New York, New York

Haiku is to poetry as espresso is to coffee.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

checking e-mail

a shadow twitters

by the window

Monday, May 30, 2005

a leaf

flutters to the lawn

spring breeze

Tuesday, May 24, 2005

retirement

clearing out the office

on a spring morning

Thursday, May 19, 2005

May morning

a solitary goose

flies south

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

spring morning

the florist raises

the steel shutter

crowded airport

waving to a lover

already turned away

Thursday, May 12, 2005

streetlight

my shadow growing

fading

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

leafless trees

late afternoon

leafless trees too

dance in the wind

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

on my mind

putting clothes away in spring—

another winter

Saturday, May 07, 2005

reading the paper

she reads one paper

he reads another

together

Wednesday, May 04, 2005

photo

old photograph

my wife's face

before she knew mine

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

reunion

This is a memory haiku, but it's also seasonal. The event referred to took place last spring.

fiftieth reunion

recognizing old friends

by names on tags

Sunday, May 01, 2005

palm branches

weeks after Easter

still in the car