Poetry in the Moment

My haiku is now  on display in Washington DC's Golden Triangle as part of the 2026 Golden Haiku Competition .

the Stars and Stripes in my migrant friend's wrinkled eyes the spring that once was American dream somewhere over the rainbow detention ...

crack, cracking of river ice hunting for work Selected Haiku, 17th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2025

sound-bathing  in snowlight ... this stillness Selected Haiku, 17th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2025

Two of my haiku below are included in   Haiku 21.2,   a new anthology that presents examples of the best haiku being written in the second d...

this muscle memory of my son flying high Indian summer Selected Haiku , Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 

a slow dance in the light of dawn first snowflakes   Selected Haiku , Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 

Zen garden a rain chain drips droplets of light Selected Haiku, Paint Me: 2024 New Zealand Poetry Society Haiku Contest Anthology

childhood river the light of fireflies dim ... and dimmer Editor's Choice, Enchanted Garden , 8, 2024 Enchanted Garden's Nomination ...

eviction notice ... roof icicles  dripping moonlight Setu, "Masters of Wabi," 2024 FYI: Visit    Setu's Masters of Wabi: Chen-...

snow light in her hospice room stillness Setu, "Masters of Wabi," 2024 FYI: Visit    Setu's Masters of Wabi: Chen-ou Liu  for ...

drift of blossoms for a moment grandma recalls her first love Selected Haiku, 15th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest

first snowfall ... my black-haired son in a class of twenty-five blonds Selected Haiku, 15th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Co...

"Dear Chen-ou, I hope this email finds you well. Share with you my family photo, which was taken this glorious morning."  In the p...

My Dear Friends: I'm happy to share with you this exciting news: my tanka prose, "Independence," nominated by the Tanka Societ...

ebb and flow of Pacific waves ... years in exile International Haiku Plaquette Project, November  2022 Chinese Translation  太平洋 的海浪潮起潮落… 流放多...

leaf fall ... these spiralling what-ifs Selected Haiku, 14th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2022

borderwallborderwallborderwall... the length of a dream Whiptail, 3, 2022 Whiptail Nominee for the Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards for In...

rusty staples on the bulletin board a ghost town Selected Haiku, Kissing A Ghost: 2021 NZPS Poetry Contest Anthology

dust motes adrift in the sleets of moonlight my father slips in and out of himself Selected Tanka , Gusts, Fall/Winter 2020