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Tiring the heart--
mountains and ocean
too much beauty

---Santōka
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Why do
we live from day
to day in endless quest
for wealth, while we forget to tend
our soul?

In my book, Rustle of bamboo leaves
spring harbingers
two birds cavort
in my front lawn
wheelchair bound
the veteran feeds
a one-legged bird

World Haiku Review
Vol. 7, Issue 1, March 2009
spring time
a rainbow forms
in the sprinkler
he waters the lawn
from his wheelchair

Modern English Tanka
Vol. II, No. 3, Spring 2008
surrounded
and embraced with love
by family and friends
what more can I ask
for my birthday
my daughter
invites me to lunch
this Mother's day
just for a tender moment
she's her late mother

In my book,
Rustle of bamboo leaves

but originally published in World Haiku Review
Vol. 5, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2005
two dads
and two baby strollers
Mother’s Day

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

Going home




After a haiku hike
in Fish Canyon Falls last Saturday
haiku trail
leading to nowhere
but here

For the complete story please check
my blog HERE
spring cleanup
last letter of my sister
before her death

For my sister Ate Nena,
who passed away last year

Forbidden love

the entwined ivy
and blooming rose
reach for the sun
the entanglements
of forbidden love

Sketchbook, Vol. 4, No. 6,
November/December 2009
widower’s first date
her aggressiveness
unsettles his driving
oh how he wishes
he’s ten years younger

Modern English Tanka
Vol. 3, No. 3, Spring 2009
spring rain
even Death Valley
is alive with flowers

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

Mexicali earthquake

the pool's water rocks
and rolls then overflows
at earthquake's call

We were starting to eat our Easter early dinner in my daughter's house when the rumblings started. Looking at the swimming pool outside, we watched with a bit of apprehension, the water of the swimming pool coming upwards towards the house. Nothing serious happened, however, as we rode the rolling wave for the longest time, which we all felt. We learned later that it was in a magnitude of 7.2 in Mexico near San Diego.
lightning flashes
on the far horizon
a navy mom
smoothes the wrinkles
of her son’s picture

In The Pebbled Shore:
The Tanka Society of America’s
2009 Anthology, 2010.
"Let those
who have not sinned
cast the first stone to her."
Left alone, He enjoins her,
"Sin no more!"
half awake
a rumbling reminder
that California
still remains
earthquake haven


A very delayed reaction ....
sleepy in class
the boy blames it on
daylight savings time
orphanage window
plastic flowers bloom
in the snow

The Mainichi (Japan) Daily News
March 11, 2010