Poetry in the Moment

a magical-realism tanka prose written on Pope Leo XIV's first day as dusk deepens a white-haired refugee's shadow slips into the chu...

one year older as sunlight floods the bedroom, a golden glow brightening each corner ... Death and I minds apart Chrysanthemum, 35, 2025 Ger...

shadowing a Ulysses butterfly to this mountain trail of many twists and turns ... at last Time leaves me alone 外国語短歌佳作, 富士山大賞2025 Honorable ...

Chinese Original: 我們相遇又分別 彷彿積層雲 ... 流亡歲月   English Translation we meet and part as if cumulus clouds ... years in exile  "In Translatio...

three words uttered under a double rainbow I exhale, you inhale Romanian Translation by Editor Steliana Cristina Voicu trei cuvinte rostite ...

paper lanterns dotting the inky sky ... news of another war German Translation Papierlaternen punktieren den tintenschwarzen Himmel ... Beri...

street theatre improv: in gathering dusk a clown marches back and forth jumps up and down, sways left and right to cast off his shadow Germa...

mountain pass -- lost with my old dog in a skylark's song German Translation Bergpaß. -- verloren mit meinem alten Hund im Lied einer Fe...

clouds of breath her parting words linger ... Hindi Translation: श्वास के बादल  उसके विदाई के शब्द  ठहर गये … Triya, Basant,  2025

flashflooding ... the silence between us stretched w i   d     e       r Hindi Translation: आकस्मिक बाढ़ ... हमारे बीच मौन का  विस्  ता     ...

dappled sunshine kid after kid through a tunnel of pink blossoms Romanian Translation by Editor Steliana Cristina Voicu soare pătat copil d...

snow light … waking thoughts of the home I left Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta 窓の雪蛍光の如生家かな Akita International Haiku Network, Jan....

this lockdown life  the comings and goings of an alley stray Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta ロックダウンこの生活は何だろう路地裏の犬行ったり来たり Akita Inte...

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 Netwo...

what’s left unsaid  between the um s and ah s ... family reunion Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta 再会の家族の会話阿吽かな Akita International H...

what will remain of my immigrant past? footprints in the snow Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta 我移民私の過去の残る物雪に残りし足跡の如 Akita Internation...

seashore sunset rippling gold between me and the world beyond Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta 金色に海の夕日の波光る彼岸の空と私の間 Akita Internation...

scattering ashes … the river winds away out of sight Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta 灰散布曲折の川消えにけり Akita International Haiku Network...

For Basho the old pond rippling with sunlight poets come and go Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta 古池や陽光の波人の波 Akita International Haik...

steady snowfall … on my coffee-stained desk a pile of daydreams Japanese translation by Hidenori Hiruta 部屋の外降り続く雪机にはコ－ヒーの染み空想の山 Akita Inter...