eating alone
I scribble a few verse lines
on a napkin...
a long sigh emerges
from the waitress's pale lips
Simply Haiku, 9:3,4, Autumn/Winter 2011
Poetic Musings: Mother and Ocean Haiku by Kobayashi Issa
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mother I never knew,
each time I see the ocean,
each time --
*The Essential Haiku*, 1995
Kobayashi Issa
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