Showing posts with label Sketchbook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sketchbook. Show all posts

Monday, October 1, 2012

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

In my book, 
Haiku and Tanka Harvest © 2011
but first published in
Sketchbook, Vol. 5, No. 2
March/April 2010

Saturday, August 18, 2012


my neighbor mows
the grassy edges
of my unkempt lawn
in the shade I try to write
this friendship poem

Sketchbook, Vol. 4, No. 4, 
July/August 2009 

Monday, May 21, 2012

Search for inner peace


he roams
the rocky hills
in search of inner peace
which his world
cannot give

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 1
January/February 2011

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Fleeting life


I know now
why our embrace
was so tight
your last farewell
to fleeting life
Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 1

Jan/Feb. 2011

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Spring cleanup

spring cleanup
she rips her dad’s photo
with his new young wife

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 3 
May/June 2011

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Hospice

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

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

Monday, October 31, 2011

SENRYU AND VANGUARD HAIKU

From time to time, I will post here some of my poems in my forthcoming book, HAIKU AND TANKA HARVEST until it is published. Here is a section on Senryu and Vanguard haiku.

A senryu a day drives your shrink insane. - V. P. Gendrano's aphorism.

Following are samples of senryu I have written and published these past five years.


texting while driving
he wakes in the hospital
with only one leg

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 3
May/June 2011



Facebook
the new public place
to bare yourself

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 3
May/June 2011



senior power
a cup of coffee
for fifty-nine cents

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



teacher's pet
she tutors her student
the art of love

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



lingering heat
the girl removes her new bra
to freedom

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 3
May/June 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011

Her absence

he dreads  
the dark demons
that inhabit his dreams
each night that passes by
in her absence

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 1
Jan/Feb. 2011

Saturday, October 15, 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

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Loneliness

often
I feel alone
amidst a crowd
still hard to fill the void
you left behind

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

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Trilingual haiku

Here is my recent tri-lingual poems. Hope you like it.

TATLONG WIKA, ISANG KAHULUGAN
(Three tongues, One meaning)


I. KALUNGKUTAN (Tagalog)

 gabing walang bituin
 hinihintay kita sinta
 kahit sa panaginip


 SOLEDAD (Español)

 la noche sin estrellas
 esperaré por te amor
 aun en mi sueño


 LONELINESS (English)

 starless night
 I'll wait for you my love
 even in my dream


Sketchbook
Vol. 6, No. 3
May/June 2011

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Texting while driving

texting while driving
he wakes in the hospital
with only one leg

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 3
May/June 2011

Thursday, August 25, 2011

Job hunting

he picks up
a half-empty soda
left on the curb
another day
of job hunting

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 1
Jan/Feb. 2011

Monday, August 15, 2011

Friendship poem

my neighbor mows
the grassy edges
of my unkempt lawn
in the shade I try to write
this friendship poem

Sketchbook, Vol. 4, No. 4,
July/August 2009

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Children's soccer

children’s soccer
their parents fight in the stands
the game goes on

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

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Lingering heat

lingering heat

the girl removes her new bra

to freedom

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 3
May/June 2011

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Moonlight

moonlight stroll
through her window
strains of sonata

Sketchbook, Vol. 4, Issue 2
March/April 2009

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Obesity

obesity -
epidemic problem
in the land of plenty

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 1
Jan/Feb. 2011

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Last farewell

I know now
why our embrace
was so tight
your last farewell
to fleeting life

Sketchbook, Vol. 6, No. 1
Jan/Feb. 2011

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Domestic quarrel

domestic quarrel again
he removes his hearing aid
and pretends sleeping

Sketchbook
Vo. 3, No. 10, October 2008