Old and New, New ... Then Old ?

home alone

I listen to the snowlight

from last year

another new year

I meet the stranger’s gaze

in the mirror

the same resolution

with a different weight

first sunrise tinged gray

New Year’s fireworks …

the room quiet before

quieter after

NeverEnding Story, December 31 2025

Enemy's Eyes Senryu

my enemy's eyes

stare at me in the mirror:

this gray-haired dreamer

5-7-5 Haiku Journal, April 21, 2025

Late Night Cafe Haiku

late-night cafe 

an old man murmurs 

to his reflection

Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta

老人や深夜のカフェ独り言

Akita International Haiku Network, Jan. 15 2025　

Happy Hour Kyoka

alone again

during Happy Hour

in dim light

I raise the last glass 

to my reflection

Failed Haiku, 8:93, September 2023

Mind and Moon Haiku

moon mirrors mind mirrors moon

NeverEnding Story, September 21, 2017

Reflection Haiku

winter
rain
drops
my
reflection

Modern Haiku, 45:1, Winter/Spring 2014

Mirror Haiku

mirror at first light...
staring into each
other's eyes

Shamrock, #18

A Tanka about Reading

eyeballing
that side of me…
I punish myself
by reading poems
through the eyes of others

Gusts, #12

Through A Glass, Darkly

I hold
the mirror of my life
up to my face.

I see
a man in black
staring back at me.

With a swing
I smash the mirror.
The day and I
grow dark as one.

Winter 2009 issue of Rust+Moth

A Confucian Confusion

Three times a day for years,
I have sat alone
by the lake of mind.
I see your face
beneath the water,
we never get tired
of gazing at each other;
I call out to you,
silently comes an echo.
I dedicate these moments
to you alone, for you
I groom myself.

Fall, 2008 Issue of The Stellar Showcase Journal