Showing posts with label Haiga. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haiga. Show all posts
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Monday, December 29, 2014
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!
To all my readers and visitors to my blog, have a Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year! With this coming new year, I might not be able to post here frequently as I have started compiling my 4th book in time probably with my birthday. Do drop by once in a while and leave a note or two. Happy holidays everybody!!!
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
Monday, November 25, 2013
FILIPINO SPIRIT
TO THE PHILIPPINE TYPHOON VICTIMS
FILIPINO SPIRIT
like the bamboo
of my ancestral land
the Filipino spirit
may be bowed
but still stands
no están solo
you're not alone
di ka nagiisa
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Saturday, December 3, 2011
NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
A NEW INFO:
The Epilogue of my book features Memorial and Death poems dedicated to poets Betty Kaplan, Janice Bostok, and Svetlana Marisova who passed away one by one while I was busy compiling the book. Dare I say I have also written my own?
Here is the cover of my forthcoming second book, HAIKU AND TANKA HARVEST, a slight variation of my blog's name. It has 126 pages, 6x9" size using Times Roman 12 with ISBN-13:978-1468017854. My first book, Rustle of bamboo leaves, selected haiku and other poems was published in November 2005.
Tha Haiku chapter is introduced by Susumu Takiguchi, Chairman of World Haiku Club and editor of its World Haiku Review and the Tanka chapter by haiku and tanka poet and eminent book reviewer Marjorie Buettner. The cover is designed by my artist friend, poet and long-time haiga collaborator Ashley Wood of England.
The book is a selection of my over 200 haiku and tanka poems published in various online and print journals as well as book anthologies written during the past six years, 2006-2011. There is a lenghty section of Senryu and Vanguard haiku. Included also are multilingual haiku and tanka in English, Spanish and Tagalog. Scattered all over the volume are samples of my haiga or picture poems from my sizable collection dating from 2000. More news forthcoming.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Two rainbows
two rainbows arch
in the misty sky
this early summer
he will be home soon
to his wife and daughter
Modern English Tanka
Vol. 1, No. 3. Spring 2007
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY
Happy Father's Day to all Dads! Enjoy your day and for their children, I hope and pray that they pause even for one day to pay tribute to their fathers. Share and show your love now for tomorrow may be too late. Like I'm fond of saying - we sometimes take our loved ones for granted and only miss them when they are not around anymore. A hug, a kiss, an embrace, a smile (we fathers silently wish for them) and those are far more precious than material gifts...
Saturday, June 11, 2011
In search of happiness
Like Basho with his walking stick, I roamed the rocky hills in search of inner peace which alas, my world failed to give. (That is another version of my earlier haiga in search of happiness which is somewhere in my file). Then I found an open gate to Happiness land beyond which I can see clumps of flowers inviting me to come in. Amidst the blossoms with their resident bees and butterflies, I found peace and serenity that salved a wounded soul. I stayed there as long as I can and before leaving, I took this picture to remind me that I am not dreaming...
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
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