Poetry in the Moment

tenth year in exile… a blossom breeze of lilac brings me home again 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, September 30, 2025

the weight of silence heavier than yesterday tongues of forest fires 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, September 26, 2025

dew-drenched rose garden these shades of scarlet sunlight still drip, drip, dripping… 5-7-5 Haiku Journal, September 23, 2025

nodding our heads we pass each other like this  for seven years ... my old neighbor's tribal fear of the Other [like me] Haiku Page, 11,...

Father's breath fades into forever ... I gaze out  his hospice window at the moon, its fullness Haiku Page, 11, 2025 reprinted in  Charl...

Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words , CCLXXXI: "smoky gray and child's stare" part of winter sky where pale white turns ...

a red bikini pinned to the noticeboard... sunlit waves lapping Asahi Haikuist Network, December 5 2025

Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words,  CCLXXVII: "Groundhog Day loop" Phase two of the Gaza ceasefire plan rolls on the news...

for Albert Camus charred remains  of a woman and baby the sky, tinged with red Is it barbaric to write poetry during the genocide? But what ...

harvest moon over Gold Mountain Diner -- a migrant and I eat and chat around the edges of our lost dreams Onions in Moonlight: TSA Members...

Arctic snap, sound of white Smols, January 21, 2026 Note: For more about a haiku-inspired genre, see To the Lighthouse: Smols , A Haiku Insp...

half awake, alone ... winter stars upon stars  upon stars NeverEnding Story, February 2 2026 FYI: This haiku could be read as a prequel to t...

to Thomas Mann who claimed, A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. coffee gone cold as the cur...

blank screen glow... the calligraphy of swifts in a paper-white sky Honorable Mention , the Irish Haiku Society International Haiku Competit...

eve of a deadline                              for the climate change report ... from this blank page I gaze out at a garden snail who sets ...

flash flooding ... this trail of grief and yet mud-stained marigolds    The Solitary Daisy, 57, 2025

her farewell promise a starling murmuration shape-shifting tsuri-dōrō, 29, Sept/Oct. 2025

Another night of shifting, flipping the pillow, and counting sheep … my thoughts pacing  in moonlit dark, one stray  outbarks the rest Never...

(Note: " Israel's oldest daily ,  Haaretz," which was was  sanctioned by the Israeli government  on Nov. 24, 2024 Jan. 27 : Se...

first return journey to this punk-haired younger self in my mind's window I murmur, did you ever find where your heart could rest Ribbon...