Selected Tanka: Ghostly Past Tanka

plum blossoms
scattered here and there
in the ruins
of burned memories
my ghostly past

Every Day Poets, May 20, 2012

Selected Tanka: Distant Howl Tanka

distant howl …
in what remains of this spring night
I hear
the echo of footsteps
inside my mind

Every Day Poets,  April 16, 2012

Jisei Haiku

reading jisei
my lamplit shadow
quivers

Every Day Poets (Dec. 2, 1012)

Autumn Twilight Haiku

a grain of sand
and then another . . .
autumn twilight

Every Day Poets (Nov. 24, 2012)

Frog Haiku

a frog leaps
from the summer moon
to a lotus leaf

Every Day Poets, (September 1, 2012)

Loneliness Tanka

she’s stretched out
in the pose of an odalisque
a farewell gift
on the wall of the room
I live in alone

Every Day Poets (June 15, 2012)

Plum Tanka

plum blossoms
scattered here and there
in the ruins
of burned memories
my ghostly past

Every Day Poets (May 20, 2012)

Spring Tanka

distant howl…
in what remains of this spring night
I hear
the echo of footsteps
inside my mind

Every Day Poets (April 16, 2012)