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.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

last bus

last bus
the driver
whistling softly

Saturday, January 26, 2008

dancing

dancing up a storm
a line of galoshes
against the wall

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

companion piece

Although written a long time ago, this can be read as a variation on the theme of "seclusion."

yard sale
comments in the margin
of an old book

Sunday, January 20, 2008

seclusion

winter seclusion
writing a comment
in the margin

Friday, January 18, 2008

gray

winter bareness
a gray squirrel
crosses the park

Sunday, January 13, 2008

between

between my winter hat
and my winter collar
winter wind

Friday, January 11, 2008

engine

winter night
a car engine
won't turn over

Saturday, January 05, 2008

Epiphany

Epiphany
the neighborhood returns
to ordinary darkness
(Published in A New Resonance 5)

narcissus

narcissus
petals as white
as an empty page

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

roadside

roadside woods
patches of snow
patches of earth

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