Screams Gendai Haiku

screams red bleeding through midnight fog

NeverEnding Story, September 9 2026

FYI: This is written in response to the following:

knife cold swimming into blue bones

Modern Haiku, 44:1, 2013

Susan Constable

My detailed analysis can be accessed here.

Father's Ashes Haiku

winter fog

heavier than expected

father's ashes

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 9:1, 2025

Autumn Fog Haiku

layers of autumn fog...

trying to live this midlife

without answers

Asahi Haikuist Network, September 5 2025

Thanksgiving Trip Home Haiku

Thanksgiving trip home

patches of twilight fog

on the horizon

NeverEnding Story, October 13 2025

FYI: The primary differences are the date, with Canadian Thanksgiving on the second Monday in October, because the earlier fall harvest and colder climate require celebrating the bounty of the land before winter sets in,  and American Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November, and the length of the holiday weekend (three days in Canada versus four-plus days in the U.S.). 

And the following haiku could be read as a sequel to the above

Thanksgiving drive

after the bustle

quiet fields, deep shadows

NeverEnding Story, October 14, 2024

Harriet S. Bates

And the following haiku could be read as a sequel to the above

a "No Politics" sign

on the dining room wall ...

Thanksgiving dinner

Sense & Sensibility, November 2025 

Chen-ou Liu

And the following haiku could be read as a sequel to the above:

Thanksgiving dinner

between mouthfuls and refills

this hushed silence

NeverEnding Story, October 14, 2024

Chen-ou Liu

Patches of Fog Haiku

happy or not

just to be as I am ...

patches of fog

Cold Moon Journal, November 25 2024

Patches of Fog Haiku

happy or not

just to be as I am ...

patches of fog

Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn, 2024

Winding Road Tanka

a winter fog

smothers the winding road

to her mother's house

the bruises on her face

say everything & nothing

Bulgarian and English Tanka Handbook (edited by Dimitar Anakiev)

Night Fog Tanka

night fog

clinging to bare trees

along the riverbank ...

a man half covered

by an army blanket

Tanka 5ive,1, 2022

The Same Question Tanka

for the third time 

this morning Father asks me

the same question ...

wisps of winter fog

shrouding our oak tree

Take 5ive, 5, 2021

Fog and Last Moment Haiku

fog over the cliff

what did my friend see

at her last moment

Brass Bell, August 2021

Winter Fog Tanka

headlights
enveloped in winter fog
a one-armed man
wobbles back and forth
singing, Home sweet home

NeverEnding Story, January 30, 2020

Selected Tanka: Border Town Tanka

the fog rolling
over the border town . . .
refugees
walk along train tracks
toward a blood moon

Skylark, 4:2, Winter 2016

Twilight Fog Haiku

silhouettes
in the twilight fog
a raven's call

Shamrock, 42, 2019

Selected Tanka: Talk of War Tanka

row after row
of brick houses blanketed
by winter fog ...
the howling of street dogs
punctuates our talk of war

Gusts, 23, Spring/Summer 2016

Selected Haiku: Floating Thoughts Haiku

for Marcel Proust, author of Remembrance of Things Past

winter fog ...
tea-soaked madeleines crumble
into floating thoughts

PoemHunter, September 22, 2013

Patches of Fog Haiku

patches of fog
the things I remember
to forget
   
Brass Bell, December 2017

Ship of My Past Tanka

alone ...
the ship of my past
sinking slowly
on this winter night
a lifeboat in patchy fog

hedgerow, 115, 2017