2016 Ninth Haiku Meeting: September 10
Moderator: Crystal Brunelli
almost unnoticed
sighs an autumn breeze
I’m not young anymore
Michiko Murai
evening breeze
rustles newly raked leaves
an autumn note
Michiko Murai
visiting my friend’s grave
shiny new marble one—
fine day after typhoon
Yasuhiko Shirota
daybreak—
beyond floral fields
autumn sea
Yasuhiko Shirota
cats across our garden
putting on cool airs—
autumn wind
Kazuo Takayanagi
thud!
a persimmon falls—
autumn has come
Kazuo Takayanagi
nothing on
a privilege of old men
--summer lingering now!
Hideo Ebihara
once sham air fights
high above Mt. Tsukuba
now only white clouds floating
Hideo Ebihara
beating its tail
to the joy of life
wagtail
Juichi Masuda
hanging dried persimmons
even the sunlight seems to get
sweeter gradually
Juichi Masuda
swimming in the river
within easy reach
of the mother’s voice
Takashi Ikari
fishing sweetfish
no movement
below the waist
Takashi Ikari
yesterday’s heat
lingering
in the cupboard
Midori Tanaka
dove’s flap
hints
the sansho peppers ripen
Midori Tanaka
happy
living within my means
cicadas in chorus
Michi Umeda
can on the beach
sporting a foreign script
the autumn breeze
Michi Umeda
explore Proxima b
communicate with creatures
summer night dream
Takeo Hanaoka
morning glory seeds
sleeping soundly
dreaming of a big voyage
Takeo Hanaoka
the door sealed up
by smiling evening glory
a shadow through the window
Yuzu Sugita
sky-blue morning glory
climbing to the highest
every Paralympian!
Yuzu Sugita
persistent summer cold—
my younger brother smiling
in the photo frame
Katsuhisa Nakagawa
even Hokkaido hit by typhoons—
can we stop global warming?
Al Gore answering YES!
Katsuhisa Nakagawa
typhoons mixed-up
moving up north to bring disasters
mercilessly
Masaaki Oka
an Iwate village
isolated by Typhoon Lionrock
over a week
Masaaki Oka
how fast
over barefoot children
a dragonfly
Keiko Toya
those irregular typhoons
caused a mess all over Japan
evenly
Masako Omaki
guarding Korea
from typhoon and tsunami
the Japanese islands!
Masako Omaki
toward the night in which
a soul becomes frizzled
meimuna opalifera
Hiroshi Utano
crickets singing
shuts cicadas up.
late summer
Hiroshi Utano
bone boiling reflection---
on Shibuya Scramble Crossing
shimmering bikinis
Yasuomi Koganei
Rio Olympics finale---
between fireworks
shades of immigrants
Yasuomi Koganei
a swift river dammed
now a mountain lake
now waves and tides
Stephen M. Block (USA)
fiume di note
scorre su cinque corde
mani danzanti
Anna Mencarelli (Italy)
river of tunes
flows on five strings
dancing hands
Anna Mencarelli (Italy)
sera d'estate
una sola chitarra
giro del mondo
Anna Mencarelli (Italy)
summer evening
only a guitar
around the world
Anna Mencarelli (Italy)
late at night
the whir of my son’s fan
through the ceiling
Crystal Brunelli (USA)