2014 Tenth Haiku Meeting: October 11
Moderator: Catherine Urquhart
unannounced cold spell
bumble bees in blue blossoms
summer’s nectar fades
Stephen M. Block (USA)
the date says “autumn”
summer mocks the calendar
hot and humid October
Royal T. Fruehling (Hawai’i, USA)
Unity Day
the milky moon
half-full
Simone K. Busch (Germany)
hibiscus bush—
a cricket sings
behind which flower?
Tomislav Maretić (Croatia)
London of the 19th century
emerging
autumn bus tour
Tenshi Sakai
lack of sleep
ridiculous autumn
iPhone6
Kyoko Kitahara
every Saturday
these 30 years
the sea air
the fish market
Momoyo Nishimura
autumnal
red
total
lunar
eclipse
Junko Saeki
tidying the kitchen garden
one spider lily blooms
summer passing
Midori Suzuki
looking back
the scent of fragrant olive
monochrome view of my 20s
Michiko Murai
a walk in the park
gathering acorns, green, brown, black
the sheen of second childhood
Katsuhisa Nakagawa
the typhoon has passed!
a crow’s caw
in high tone
Masako Omaki
Volcano Ontake!
why such a merciless stroke
upon hikers
Hideo Ebihara
the autumn wind
reminds me of my place
in the final chapter
Sachiko Kondo
at the campus fest
ginkgo nuts falling, rolling
to the tune of a sax
Motoko Sato
if only
she had played more partitas--
the moonlit way home
Ikken Ikemoto
speaking to the mantis
she returns my gaze
evening of the lunar eclipse
Midori Tanaka
passion dwells
in the spider lilies
when did I lose it?
Maki Hatanaka
the inauguration lunch
of a philosopher cum priest
his laid-back conversation
Masaaki Oka
a pair of shoes
as if he were here
autumn deepens
Michi Umeda
mysterious blue light
the Nobel Prize
sparkling in autumn
Takeo Hanaoka
sudden severe knee pain
“a blessing of your longevity” jokes the doctor
autumn has come
Kiyoshi Sugita
becoming clear
the water of the pond
as if replaced
Takashi Ikari
an eruption!?
one friend missing
colored mountain leaves
Yuzu Sugita
full moon—
would that I expire
at the foot of Mt. Fuji
Juichi Masuda
under the lunar eclipse
geese in flight
reaching Japan
Yasuhiko Shirota
carpet of autumn lilies
the river flowing
to a pure land
Keiko Toya
a hacking cough—
winter hanging on the eaves
Yasuomi Koganei
a fragrance
strong, golden
a September shower
Osamu Kawasaki