Showing posts with label maple. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maple. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2025

Red-and-Gold Dream Tanka

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maple leaves falling on maple leaves my three-year-old piles up enough to hide inside his red-and-gold dream Shot Glass Journal, 45, 2025
Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Voting for Change Haiku

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Voting for Change maple leaves zigzag in morning chill Under the Basho, June 9 2024
Monday, September 20, 2021

Foreclosure Haiku

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a gutterful of maple leaves foreclosure tsuri-dōrō, 5, Sept/Oct 2021  
Friday, July 31, 2020

The Point of No Return

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On the day of my emigration to Canada, a land of maple leaves and snowflakes that will eventually bury my past. a parting of summer c...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Twilight Chill Haiku

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a maple leaf zigzags to the ground ... twilight chill Acorn, 43, Fall 2019
Thursday, July 4, 2019

Filament of Web Haiku

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a filament of web between maple leaves to stay or to go ... seashores, II, 2019
Sunday, January 20, 2019

Selected Haiku: Pink Slips Haiku

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the crunch of dried maple leaves... pink slips Haiku Canada Review, 9:2, October 2015
Monday, November 12, 2018

Selected Tanka: Jagged Piece of TimeTanka

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my “now”   written to fill up a jagged piece of time . . . maple leaves turn yellow Atlas Poetica, 21, 2015
Saturday, September 22, 2018

Spiral Haiku

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written on the first day of school the spiral of a maple leaf ... morning chill NeverEnding Story, September 4, 2018
Saturday, September 15, 2018

Selected Haibun: Suspended between Life and Death

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On my way to work at the meat factory, a dewy green leaf is shaken loose and blown away from a maple tree. It floats along the sidewalk. Su...
Monday, July 23, 2018

My Dream Is a Private Myth

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The sound of gunshots wakens me on this May Day, my twelfth since emigrating to Canada. I look out the window and see a yellow bird falling...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Promised Land Tanka

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our new life in this promised land? my son raising a maple leaf to the sunshine Atlas Poetica, 31, 2018
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Empty Nest Tanka

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an empty nest in a forked branch of the maple tree -- planted in his front yard the foreclosure sign Atlas Poetica, 29, 2017
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Tangled Thoughts of Home Haiku

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the calligraphy of bare maple branches tangled thoughts of home Brass Bell, February 2017
Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Meat Factory Tanka

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on the way to the meat factory where I work, bare maple trees, beyond them bare maple trees ... Revision, Gusts, 23, Spring/Summer 2016
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Selected Tanka: Barrenness Tanka

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buried earth a silver carpet -- maples and I gaze at the barrenness we see in each other Selected Tanka, Gusts, 9, Spring/Summer 2009 N...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Temp Job Haiku

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last leaves cling to a maple tree ... another temp job Whispers, December 2015
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Dried Maple Leaves Haiku

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the crunch of dried maple leaves... pink slips Haiku Canada Review, 9:2, October 2015
Thursday, November 12, 2015

A Sting to the Heart, A Tanka Set

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the Pacific between my hometown and me ... after the rain a rainbow appears arching a passageway twelfth year to see maple leaves ch...
Thursday, June 18, 2015

Tongues Tanka

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the tongues of a maple tree are bare ... my loss of home speaks in Chinglish NeverEnding Story, May 9, 2015