Today is National Haiku Day. Here are some old and new poems to share.

just beyond the lane
wildflowers welcome
haiku lovers

widower's garden
her roses bloom side by side
with weeds

total strangers
come to aid other strangers
Boston bombings

we join the world
in collective prayers
for the victims and kins

From my book, Haiku and Tanka Harvest © 2012

wrong trail turn 

the scent and sight 

of wildflowers 

Tagalog

maling daan

bango at tanawin

bulaklak na ligaw

Wildflower watching

Watching
the wildflowers
with their wayward daughter,
still hard to fathom why her mom
left them.

Spring rain

spring rain
even Death Valley
is alive with flowers

Haiku Harvest, Vol. 6, No. 1
Spring/Summer 2006

Gobal warming

First, the disappearing lotus flowers at the annual Lotus Festival in Echo Park, Los Angeles. Then, the swallows not returning to Capistrano. At least, there still are the ubiquitous wildflowers to watch and enjoy viewing alongside highways and freeways of California this time of the year.

lotus flowers disappearing
and the swallows not returning
is global warming here?

Wildflowers

wrong trail turn
the scent and sight
of wildflowers


Tagalog version

maling daan
bango at tanawin
ligaw na mga bulaklak


Vic Gendrano