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

A month before my 72nd birthday, I wrote my first haiku.

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Wednesday, August 30, 2006

First Confession

a nun hurries children

past the garden

Monday, August 28, 2006

return

slowly they return

through morning mist . . .

yesterday's hills

Friday, August 25, 2006

hummingbird

a pause in the quarrel

as we look

Sunday, August 20, 2006

gift

mohawk trail

gift shop

totems for sale

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

art works

Cezanne's Card Players—

the museum guards talk

about their break

video installation

the museum guard

checks his watch

Friday, August 11, 2006

so hot

so hot—

tattoo snaking

down her arm

Monday, August 07, 2006

heat wave

heat wave—

pigeon feather

on a fallen leaf

Friday, August 04, 2006

sides

bombed into rubble—

one side of a border

or the other