Chopped tree

the widower explains

to his visiting son

why he chopped their shade tree

twice there he drawls

I tried to hang myself

In my book,

Haiku and Tanka Harvest

Loneliness

starved for a woman's touch

he indulges in fantasy

and falls prey to a flirt

beneath the cloak of night

alone,he weeps

In my book,

Haiku and Tanka Harvest

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.

Bullying

in the news
bullying is worse
than child abuse