1609🎋

japan apartment
six mats of woven rice straw
enough for one life

January 27, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, senryuTags: haiku, rice, senryu, tatami 2 Comments

1586

sweet potato man
pushes his cart home
stops at McDonald’s

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January 23, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, senryuTags: haiku, japan, senryu

1581

late winter night chant
stone baked sweet potato man
just two hundred yen

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January 22, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, senryu, WinterTags: haiku, senryu, winter

1571

hiroshima tram
653 at ground zero
many times a day

January 21, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, poems, poetry, senryuTags: densha, haiku, hiroshima, japan, senryu, tram

1515

japanese children
making snow bodhisattvas
outside the temple

January 5, 2018 by brucejewett Categories: Buddhism SGI, haiku, Japan, Nichiren, senryu, WinterTags: haiku, poem, senryu, winter

1464

snowing down in clumps
large as peony blossoms
old japanese print

December 21, 2017December 21, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, senryu, Uncategorized, WinterTags: 3lines, haiku, japan, senryu

1401

Kyoto apartment
three tatami mats
just me and Basho

November 29, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, senryuTags: haiku, japan, poetry, senryu 1 Comment

1322

my poor earthen cups
next to onyx decanters
blush to be displayed

October 11, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, senryuTags: death, haiku, japan, senryu

1273

the blind samurai
chops up 60 of my gang–
and now it’s my turn?

September 10, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, senryuTags: haiku, japan, samurai, senryu, Zatoichi

1254

kyushu’s regiments
cut to the same height
ranks of tall pines

August 27, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: Cats, haiku, Japan, senryuTags: haiku, japan, Kyushu, senryu, trees

1205

bamboo bangs on rock
swivels back empty
the water garden

July 24, 2017 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, senryuTags: haiku, japan, senryu, summer

674

in lilting Japanese
she bows to a caller
on the telephone

April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, poem, poems, poetryTags: etiquette, haiku, japan, Japanese, telephone 2 Comments

663

Basho once declared
that seventeen’s too many
for English haiku

(Note: Basho also remarked on adapting the Italian sonnet form to Japanese.)

March 31, 2016April 1, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, poem, poems, poetryTags: Basho, English haiku, haiku, japan

658

spring constellations–
flowering cherry trees–
empty beer bottles

March 30, 2016 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, poem, poems, poetry, senryu, SpringTags: cherry blossom viewing, haiku, hanami, japan, sakura, spring

656

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March 29, 2016September 29, 2019 by brucejewett Categories: haiku, Japan, poem, poems, poetry, senyruTags: cherry blossoms, haiku, life, sakura