Your timid glance haiga

Brush pen on sketchbook paper, doodled at lunch, Morrissey Hotel, Menteng, Jakarta, May 24, 2012

Satintails haiga

Doodled at dinner, brush pen on HVS, Morrissey Hotel, Menteng, Jakarta, 2012.

I let you go

i let you go
at the dawn of our days
weeping wind
carries the phantasmagoria
from abandoned plain

Silently haiga

How many haiku can you write about plum blossoms?

Another blossoms haiga

Plum blossoms haiga

My second haiga on my own painting; brush pen on tissue paper. Painted mindlessly during a workshop

Hardly breathing tanka

hardly breathing in
this sultry April evening
deeper and deeper
the scar i tried to hide
carved on my heart of stone

One by one tanka

one by one
the trees let the leaves go
in evening wind
the words we created
walk past our shadows

Wedding gown haiga

Thin air haiga

My first haiga on sumi-e.

Two tanka leftovers...

1/
reaching
into my eardrum
distant thunder
what lies in between us
shivering window glass


2/
the warm touch
of morning sunbeam
in my bed
i dream of walking
alone to nowhere

Sharing memories tanka

sharing memories
at high school reunion
like old tape
there's something good
to listen between noises

Observing clouds tanka

observing clouds
slowly sail the sky
i'm torn in two
my expectation escaping
the other side of me

Awaken tanka

awaken
just to touch her pillow
coldness unravelled
the call she made lately
from private number

Spring garde haiga

Appears at Daily Haiga, March 8, 2012

Wild mushroom tanka and haiku

1/
wild mushrooms
in our deserted garden
grow in silence
we know how this coldness
lingers like cataract*

2/
the rage
i refuse to let loose
monsoon

3/
morning mist
floating above the lake
unfinished poetry
hoping you find it carved
on my headstone

4/
are you too, moon
stargazing?

5/
peeking
thru vertical blinds
morning sunbeam
is it love concealed
behind your eyelids?

*Previously published somewhere in this blog

Warbler song haiku

misty morning
undulate movement of
warbler song

From across the roji haiga

Published on Daily Haiga Edited Journal

Wooden bench haiku

wooden bench
someone has left the shadow
of tall trees

Sleeping homeless haiku*

sleeping homeless
the hissing exhauster of
fast food restaurant

*An altered version of Rike Jokanan's haiku