japan apartment
six 3×6 fresh straw mats
enough for one life
(rewrite of 1609)
Tag: japan
2498r
dyers wade along
roll out bolts of kimono
the river of colors
2417
hugging themselves
till they wake for their stops
the clattering sway
2413r
just like in Pompeii
a mother shields her children
big quake in Japan
2412
on the rice straw mats
mother embraces a child
big quake in Japan
2410
sweet red bean pastries
my β04 Camry LE
best things from Japan
2260
Oi village still now
tills their fields with fireβ
ancestors in smoke
2221r
snowflakes as large
as peony blossoms
old japanese print
2211
mikan in season
citrus from satsuma
the table aglow
2192
a grandmother sings
a Japanese lullaby
rocking her i-phone
1754
sakura report
japanese news updating
where cherry trees bloom
1743πΏ
in a pilgrimβs robe
trudging by green fields of rice
Basho composes
1703
dancers put away
their masks and paper lanterns
break into charleston
1589
baked sweet potatoes
even for you I wonβt go
into the snowy night
π βοΈ
1586
sweet potato man
pushes his cart home
stops at McDonaldβs
π
1571
hiroshima tram
653 at ground zero
many times a day
1478r
bull frogs blink
a drunken poet
falls in their pond
(βFailed Haiku,β edited by Mike Rehling, 4/1/2016)
1464
snowing down in clumps
large as peony blossoms
old japanese print
1453
sacks of mandarins
clusters of freshly picked suns
winter addiction
1401
Kyoto apartment
three tatami mats
just me and Basho
