Poetry in the Moment

last notes linger... the crowd breathes in the held silence then breathes out Asahi Haikuist Network, Dec. 19 2025

home, sweet home ... in my rear window snow geese unzip the sunset glow The Solitary Daisy, 64, 2025 FYI: "'Home Sweet Home" w...

just to be alive on this dew-drenched morning a green-leafed breeze "I don't know a dream that's not been shattered ...," ...

his dog and a cup a jazzman plays the color of this sultry night Haiku in Action, Weekly Prompt: Music and Movement, July 23-27 2025

before leaving you cry, our life's a mistake ... yet in dreams my train runs in circle after circle and each station is you "It...

old blues singer on a Bourbon Street corner tourists come and go NeverEnding Story, July 223 2025 FYI: The heart of the French Quarter, Bour...

reading between the lives and writing between the lines , LXXXVIII the curtain glides up and screen light pours forth as music swells ... th...

Chinatown night stroll ... a childhood song uncurls from his erhu Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 7:1, Autumn/Winter 2023 Chinese Translation 夜逛唐...

This Brave New World , CXIX for Emad Soliman Robaya Robaya, a lifelong Rafah resident in Gaza who plays his flute to lift children's spi...

I don't know a dream that's not been shattered ... Paul Simon's voice whispers in my ear then I know I'll be alright  Take 5...

I'm going  to Graceland, Graceland ... I turn the volume all the way up and up as if to soar like an eagle Take 5ive, "Music That H...

my heart flip-flopping John Cage's 4'33" loud and louder ... Failed Haiku, 8:89, May 2023 FYI: 4′33″ (pronounced "four min...

written on the sixtieth anniversary of the March on Washington steady disappearance of grass on the National Mall beneath the crowd's fe...

for Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock & Roll tell my why, tell me why ... heartwriting my book of love  line by line, word by word NeverEnd...

my wife sings along with California Dreamin’ as her hair blows around my wrinkled face ... on such a winter's day Ribbons, 19:1, Winter ...

half-collapsed house in the gathering dark an old man murmurs, no food, no water except rain through the roof Hours before the Russian gover...

shards of glass on the living room floor the pianist  plays Chopin one last time before fleeing her Kyiv home Frameless Sky, 16, 2022

leaf buds tremble at the edge of a twig ... the look in a girl's eyes at the Polish border  on Kyiv's street corner a combat-suited ...

reading between the lives and writing between the lines, XIII alone again in this makeshift studio with holes in the wall a hooded teen rapp...

sunshine  flooding her Beirut home an old woman plays auld lang syne amidst shards of glass Haiku Canada Review, 15:1, February 2021