Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Friday, July 24, 2026

All the Feelings Tanka

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(FYI: The following is the first installment of  Realm of Contagious Stupidity , an ongoing series of contemporary, satirical kyōka examinin...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Nameless Headstone Haiku

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sunlit edges softened with moss ... nameless headstone O2 Haiku, March 10 2026 
Monday, May 18, 2026

Desert Mindscape Tanka

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riding hard with heels against the horse’s flanks I race alone across a desert mindscape — Samarra’s walls in twilight NeverEnding Story, Ma...
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Funeral's End Haiku

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funeral's end against the winter sunset  the widow’s silhouette Cold Moon Journal, January 11 2026
Sunday, April 5, 2026

Easter Sunday Haiku

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Easter Sunday as the churchyard mist parts another grave NeverEnding Story, April 5, 2026 Added:   What Will Come Next? in Easter sunshine a...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Golden Glow Tanka

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one year older as sunlight floods the bedroom, a golden glow brightening each corner ... Death and I minds apart Chrysanthemum, 35, 2025 Ger...
Friday, April 3, 2026

Father's Ashes Haiku

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winter fog heavier than expected father's ashes Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 9:1, 2025
Saturday, February 28, 2026

A Passage

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a pause before the doctor's reply ... my wife's hand in mine the day she's gone ... her smile in the wedding photo with brown ed...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Weight of Parting Haiku

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scattered ashes ... the weight of parting with her a second time Shot Glass Journal, 47 September 2025
Monday, February 9, 2026

Forever Tanka

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Father's breath fades into forever ... I gaze out  his hospice window at the moon, its fullness Haiku Page, 11, 2025 reprinted in  Charl...
Sunday, January 18, 2026

Dove and Heart Haiku

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a dove and a heart painted on his cracked helmet ... a dead aid worker Haiku Avenue, 7, 2025
Friday, December 12, 2025

Ashen Sky Haiku

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ashen sky pieces of him drift towards a world unknown "One Breath", O2 Haiku, September 28, 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025

West Bank on Mute Haiku

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Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words,  CCXLVIII: "a Mina plush doll, blood-stained and headless" West Bank on mute   a Mina p...
Sunday, September 7, 2025

Casket Senryu

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traffic jam face to face with the casket on a flat-bed truck Failed Haiku, 109, 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Wrinkled Face Haiku

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as if my late wife's hand caressed my wrinkled face ... blossom rain Shadow Pond Journal, June 7 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Priest's Shadow Haiku

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muffled cries a priest's shadow slips into the grave Under the Basho  May 4  2025
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Cocked Rifle Tanka

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life is so good why am I dying for this? on the hilltop of the West Bank settlement  he mutters with a cocked rifle NeverEnding Story, July ...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Worker in Words Tanka

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midnight hush ... I, a worker in words straddle the line between the abstract, death and the concrete, aging body NeverEnding Story, June 21...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Roadside Wreath Tanka

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the roadside wreath in a drift of snowflakes how fleeting my memories of her who pirouetted, pirouetted Gusts, 41, Spring/Summer 2025 
Monday, June 16, 2025

The Last Year of My Father's Life

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A haiku sequence for my father who was born in mainland China, lived most of his adult life in Taiwan, died and was buried there in 2022 a s...