Lost in the Silence

Christmas Eve

I refill my whiskey glass

with snowlight

Christmas morning

the sound of snowflakes

on snowflakes

PoemHunter, December 24 2024

reprinted in NeverEnding Story, December 25 2024

Note: This haiku set could be read as a prequel to the following:

gazing

at snow crystals on the skylight

this Christmas morning

how small and how large

my world without you

NeverEnding Story, December 25 2023

Added: 

a whiff

of Christmas leftovers ...

things half-spoken

Added: Between Heaven and Hell, XV

half asleep, half awake ...

the in and out

of this 51st US state

FYI: Yahoo News, Dec. 26: Trump floats Wayne Gretzky as 'Governor of Canada' while Trudeau's Christmas message struggles to make a mark: "It no longer looks like a joke"

Donald Trump is offering Canadians a reduction of 'more than 60%' in taxes if their government joins America as its 51st state

Jobian Struggle Tanka

for Thomas Mann who claimed,  "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." 

my whisky glass

half full or half empty?

with the Muse

this Jobian struggle

over noise and silence

NeverEnding Story, August 26 2023

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We [write] to know we're "not alone."

-- paraphrasing The character of C.S. Lewis in William Nicholson's play, "Shadowlands"

Bar Window Senryu

glass after glass ...

a crescent moon fades 

from the bar window

Failed Haiku, 8:86, February, 2023

Sipping Moonlight Haiku

sipping moonlight

alone with another
glass of wine 

Random Sampling: 2021 HC Members’ Anthology

Winter Solstice and Bourbon Haiku

only the sound

of ice in my bourbon

winter solstice

seashores, 5, 2020

Letter from Syria Tanka

my roommate reads

and re-reads a letter

from Syria ...

between us, dead silence

and a bottle of wine                        

Tanka 2020: Poems from Today’s World

Returned Letter Haiku

returned letter
my glass holds nothing
but winter moonlight

seashores, 4, 2020

Selected Haiku: Smell of Winter Rain Haiku

whiskey glass
brimming with a moonless sky
the smell of winter rain

Revision, hedgerow, 101, January 20, 2017

Glass Wall of Infectious Silence Tanka

Seventy-First Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary, written on the first night out for dinner after easing lockdown

gathering darkness
around each one of us
a bottle of wine
pushes me against this glass wall
of infectious silence

PoemHunter, May 28 2020

Ohs and Ums Senryu

speed dating
her wine glass filled
with ohs and ums

Japanese Translation by Hidenori Hiruta

カップリングパーティー
彼女のワイングラスが満たされた
ええとうーんで

Akita International Haiku Network, April 13, 2019

Words Sharpened Haiku

talk of war
with each glass of wine
his words sharpened

Poets Salon, August 21, 2019

Darkness Tanka

a glint of light
on the broken wine glass
I sink myself
into the darkness
of this winter night

The Bamboo Hut, Summer 2019

Selected Tanka: Silence and Shadow Tanka

a wine glass
of the winter sky ...
silence
and my shadow
wait side by side

Whispers, August 11, 2016

Selected Tanka: Muse's Mind Tanka

I can't stand
the thought of all those I's
in poetry
I undress the muse's mind
with words, wine, and moonlight

TSA Members' Anthology, 2015

Selected Haiku: Sunlight Haiku

writing haiku ...
my wine glass fills
with sunlight

Hedgetow, 41, August 2015
Reprinted in  Ardea, 6, 2016

Blood Moon Tanka

blood moon
refracted
from shards of glass
and yet I remain
unchanged

Gusts, 28, Autumn/Winter 2018

Drops of Moonlight Haiku

drops of moonlight
caught in the wine glass ...
first night without her

NeverEnding Story,  March 16, 2018

Holding the World Haiku

holding the world
in my whiskey glass
summer stars

Chinese Translation

掌握整個世界
在我的威士忌酒杯中
夏日繁星

Whispers, January 5,2017

Moon and Wine Haiku

half full or half empty ...
my whiskey glass
and the moon

NeverEnding Story, May 21, 2016

Noisy Silence Haiku

this noisy silence...
my half-full whiskey glass
now half-empty

NeverEnding Story, April 24, 2016