Taste of Mooncakes Haiku

this taste of mooncakes ...

Father sighed, the foreign moon

rounder and brighter

Haiku Avenue, 7, 2025

FYI:Mooncake is the most popular and important food eaten during the Chinese Moon Festival.

Slice of Mooncake and Pinot Noir Tanka

written both for the Chinese Moon Festival

and in response to Haruki Murakami's remark: All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. 

alone again

in this Land of Maple Leaf

with a slice of mooncake

I drink Pinot Noir, dwelling 

in nostalgic silence

NeverEnding Story, September 10 2022

FYI: Michelin Guide, August 28, 2019: "How To Pair Wine With Mooncakes" 

Thanksgiving Parade Haiku

This Brave New World, XXXVI

written in response to Joe Biden's phone interview: "After two years, we're back. America is back. There's nothing we're unable to overcome" 

Thanksgiving parade

stretching around the corner

a food bank lineup

PoemHunter, November 25 2021

FYI: CBC News, November 25: Balloons, dancers and a cheering crowd: Macy's Thanksgiving parade returns in 'full strength: 'America is back,' U.S. president says in phone interview.

To U.S. President Joe Biden, the parade's full-fledged return was a sign of renewal, and he called NBC broadcaster Al Roker on-air to say so.

"After two years, we're back. America is back. There's nothing we're unable to overcome," Biden said over the phone from Nantucket, Mass., where he was watching the broadcast with his family.

Moon Festival and Silence Tanka

an ocean away

from the land of my birth

this moon festival

I open my bedroom window

to let out the silence

PoemHunter, September 20 2021

Everybody Loves Holidays Kyoka

One Hundred Sixty-Second Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

air passengers

crammed shoulder-to-shoulder

in screening lines

everybody loves holidays

especially the virus 

PoemHunter, December 28 2020

Quarantined Mind and Hanukkah Dream Haiku

One Hundred Fifty-First Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

bubbles of light

float in my quarantined mind

Hanukkah dream

NeverEnding Story, December 11 2020

FYI: Hanukkah, an eight-day winter festival of lights, is celebrated with the lighting of the menorah, traditional foods, games and gifts. This Jewish festival celebrates the triumph of light over darkness and of spirituality over materiality.

Added: One Hundred Fifty-Second Entry

              the

          weight

second         lockdown

             of 

           snow 

             on

           snow

Juneteenth Fireworks Haiku

barbecue smoke billowing

across the white picket fence

Juneteenth fireworks

NeverEnding Story, June 19 2020

FYI: "Despite the lack of federal recognition, Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or the Black Fourth of July, has lived on through rich traditions, including lively celebrations in the form of festivals and parades with local bands playing, storytelling, picnics, fireworks and a Juneteenth staple — barbecues."

Selected Tanka Harvest Banners Tanka

at twilight
banners for the harvest
tossing like waves . . .
migrant workers that stay
migrant workers that go

All the Shells: TSA Members' Anthology, 2014

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

a haiku sequence written in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty against the twilight sky

July 4th parade
a pink-haired girl face to face
with the Trump cutout

Trump fans
outtrump one another
U-S-A!

MAGA barbecue
the sheriff's mouth filthy
with shithole countries

firework-lit sky
in the detention window
a child's face

NeverEnding Story, July 4, 2018

Note: "MAGA," a hashtag favored by White House Reality Show host Donald Trump, stands for "Make America Great Again."

Pride Parade Senryu

Pride Parade
s/he is winking
at me

Failed Haiku, 3:28, 2018

April Fools Senryu

you're fired
April fools invading
the white house

NeverEnding Story, April 1, 2018

April Fool's Dream Senryu

I'm tossed woman to woman April Fool's dream

NeverEnding Story, April 1, 2018

Pumpkin Festival Senryu

pumpkin festival
I murmur to my wife,
size matters

Canada Haiku Review, 12;1, 2018

Fireworks Show Tanka

fireworks show ...
all the migrants (except me)
on the rooftop
think they are on the way
to somewhere brighter

Atlas Poetica, 30, 2017

Selected Haiku: Ghost Month Haiku

end of Ghost Month
the moon and I make our way
through the night

Kernels, 2, Summer 2013

Day of the Dead Tanka

Day of the Dead ...
an old monk
striking his gong
in the moonlit cold
of midnight

NeverEnding story,  November 1, 2017

Selected Haiku: Homeland Haiku

Moon Festival . . .
pointing my shadow
towards the homeland

Asahi Haikuist Network, Nov. 16, 2012

Bastille Day Haiku

written in response to Donald Trump's France trip and for the brave French people

no Trump zone
on Bastille Day
a lone crow

PoemHunter, July 14, 2017

July 4th Fireworks Haiku

fireworks on mute
the silence envelops me
and my old dog

NeverEnding Story, July 4, 2017

Selected Senryu: Donation Box Senryu

Boxing Day night
the guards fish a boy out of
a donation box

Haiku Canada Sheet, October, 2012