Cycle of life

Mother"s Day
my daughter brings her daughter
as a peace offering

eighteenth birthday
she dances with strangers
my daughter's daughter

a cocoon rides
the autumn wind
her empty room

early spring
my daughter"s daughter
now a new mother

From my book. Rustle of bamboo: Selected haiku and other poems.

18th Birthday

eighteenth birthday

she dances with strangers

my daughter's daughter

if I feel such a pain

how about her father]

from my first book,
Rustle of bamboo leaves, ©2005

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