Layoff notice

driving home
to night drizzle
layoff notice

Mainichi Daily News
Mar. 20, 2010

Hospice

autumn twilight
they left her
at the hospice

Mainichi [Japan] Daily News
Nov. 4, 2009

Orphanage

orphanage window
plastic flowers bloom
in the snow

The Mainichi (Japan) Daily News
March 11, 2010

Grandpa's lost pipe

A bit of news. I was blessed with three early Christmas gifts this month. First, I was a featured guest in Curtis Dunlap's blog, Blogging Along Tobacco Road, with my three favorite haiku.

Second, I learned that my haiku, below, garnered Honorable Mention in the recently concluded 13th International Annual haiku contest of Mainichi (Japan) Daily News for 2009.

My third Christmas gift came from Don Wentworth, editor of Lilliput Review, who informed me that my haiku was chosen as one of the 56 selected from among 500 poems submitted which will be included in the 2nd Annual Basho Haiku Challenge chapbook. It will be published the middle of next year and I will upload it once it is published. I am so blessed and deeply honored.

winter eve
on top of the fireplace
grandpa’s lost pipe

Honorable Mention
13th Annual Mainichi (Japan)
Haiku Contest, 2009

Hospice

autumn twilight
they left her
at the hospice

Mainichi (Japan) Daily News,
Dec. 2, 2009

Hospice

raindrops roll down
the golden leaf
first day in hospice


Mainichi (Japan) Daily News
Nov.2, 2002, (No. 641)

Also in my book, Rustle of bamboo leaves

coming home
the roar of a distant
waterfall

Mainichi (Japan) Daily News
October 10, 2009