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

Like

Free-spirited

she dances

to her own music

my free-spirited

granddaughter

not unlike her mother

Spring cleaning

spring cleaning

the first doll I gave

my newly-wed daughter

Moving out

freeway drizzle
he helps his only daughter
move out

The Heron’s Nest
Vol. XII, No. 3, Sept 2010

Daughter's vacation

end of summer
our daughter’s vacation
gets shorter each year

The Heron’s Nest
Vol. XIII, No. 1
March 2011

Newly-wed daughter

an empty nest
rides the autumn wind
newly-wed daughter

Another collaboration with my friend Ashe from England. Published in my book, Rustle of bamboo leaves.