Selected Senryu Sequence: American Carnage

New Life in Trumpland, A Senryu Sequence

Go Trump graffiti
a stray dog
marking his spot

trumping Trump
my Mexican parrot
lifts up its voice

election night
a scream from the other side
of the fence

Trump victory
the sky bursting
with crows

post-election blues
my sister dressed in black
from head to toe

Thanksgiving dinner
Trump hats and Clinton stickers
left on the doormat

misty night
red states,  blue states
strongertogether

first false dawn
Donald Trump Toppled
on realnews

bald eagle's cry
cut off
Inauguration Day

a neon sign
on the White House roof:
Alternative Facts

NeverEnding Story, January 23, 2017

Selected Haiku Sequence: Absent Presence

wings of a crow
beating winter stars ...
her last breath

my first talk
with God ...
stratus clouds

NeverEnding Story, December 4 2015

Selected Haiku Sequence: Chronicle of a Death Unfolds

half moon rising ...
each day she slips
further away

hospital window
the light of the dying day
on her face

cancer ward
at the end of the hallway
blinking EXIT

winter moonlight
on her indented pillow --
hospice room

the way
she tapped my shoulder ...
pattering rain

NeverEnding Story, January 23, 2015

Selected Haiku Sequence: Beginning of the End

I love you
on the tip of my tongue
spring drizzle

fleeting summer dream
between the spoken
and unspoken

my first taste
of make-up sex
crimson leaves

thundersnow
rumbling in the distance
her parting words

NeverEnding Story, September 19, 2014

Selected Haiku Sequence: A Year Of Solitude

to leave or to stay ...
the light and dark
of a spring wind

childhood summer ...
learning the language
of butterflies

ninth autumn...
facing the Pacific
I undress my thoughts

a winter sunset
over the Rocky Mountains
I am not myself

New Year's Eve
after the fireworks
a moonlit cobweb

Lynx, 28:3, October 2013

Selected Haiku Sequence: Another Year

hometown memories ...
spring water
against my legs

something old
that is always new
summer stars

autumn sunset
on a yellow brick road
I go skyward

a fleeting dream
in winter moonlight
notes of an erhu

my dog and I
in a patch of sunlight
New Year's morning

Frogpond, 36:2, Summer 2013
Fear of Dancing, Red Moon Anthology of English Language Haiku 2013

Selected Haiku Sequence: Journey through the Land of Melting Clocks

anything new
under the Barcelona sun
Casa Milà

a line of tapas
where does her love begin
and my desire end?

the full moon
at La Sagrada Família
unfinished me

Occupy Madrid
returning
to my mother tongue

Seville Cathedral
above a sea of heads
chirping swallow

Dante in Thought
is it possible to take
refuge in poetry

Dalí painting
on my water-stained wall
hometown memories

Modern Haiku, 44:1, winter/spring 2013

Selected Haiku Sequence: Waiting for Spring

butterflies flit
from garden to garden --
walking my shadow

swatting flies...
alone in the attic
on this summer day

standing in
the way of the autumn wind...
my old dog and me

whiskey stains
on One Man's Moon
. . .winter dawn

Frogpond, 35:2, 2012

Selected Haiku Sequence: A Life in Four Seasons

I write her
one poem every day
spring dewdrops

a butterfly
tattooed on her buttock
summer heat

autumn dawn
before the mirror I count
gray hairs

snow on snow
thoughts of her emerge
one at a time

Frogpond, 34:1, Winter 2011

Note:  In celebration of the upcoming 7th anniversary of being a published writer of Japanese short form poetry, I am pleased to announce a new publishing project, Selected Haiku Sequence by Chen-ou Liu.