Hospice doldrums

hospice doldrums

she gazes at the bird

flying to sunset

Nearing Home

nearing home

the sun starts to set

in my rear-view mirror

I've lived a good life

my cup overflows

from my book,

Haiku and Tanka Harvest

Old age

grandpa gazes
at the lone bird
flying to sunset

empty nest
their children's footsteps
fading bit by bit

autumn dusk

grandpa gazes at the bird

flying alone

In my book, 

Haiku and Tanka Harvest © 2012

but first published in

World Haiku Review

Vol. 5, Issue 2, January 2007

I brush mom's gray hair
as she chats with unseen friends
in her hospice home
I wonder if she knows
I'm her least-liked daughter

Notes from the Gean
Vol. 2, Issue , March 2011

Hospice visit

hospice visit
for the third time
she asks the name
of her daughter
holding her hand

Sketchbook Vol. 5, No. 2
March/April 2010

Hospice

I brush mom's gray hair 
as she chats with unseen friends 
in her hospice home 
I wonder if she knows
I'm her least-liked daughter

Notes from the Gean
Vol. 2, Issue 4, March 2011

Old age

nearing home
the sun starts to set
in my rear-view mirror

Notes from the Gean
Vol. 2, Issue 1, June 2010

80th Birthday

the regal tree
bends with the wind
bowed but not broken
he celebrates
his 80th birthday

Sketchbook, Vol. 5, No. 4
July/August 2010

Autumn leaf

A precursor of my next post below after a hiatus of nine years.

Hospice

autumn twilight
they left her
at the hospice

Mainichi [Japan] Daily News
Nov. 4, 2009

Setting sun

nearing home
the sun starts to set
in my rear-view mirror

Notes from the Gean
Vol. 2, Issue 1, June 2010

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

shell gathering

On August 30, the Southern California Haiku Study Group (SCHSG), of which I am a member, held a reading of its 2009 Haiku Anthology at the Pacific Asia Museum, in Pasadena, California. Titled "shell gathering," I have five of my haiku included in the anthology.

Here is one of them:

hospice window
she gazes at the birds
flying to sunset

More information could be found in the SCHSG blogsite:
SCHSG BLOG