2017 Fifth Haiku Meeting: May 13
Moderator: Crystal Brunelli
into strolling shadows
moonlit petals falling------
tomorrow, her departure
Yasuomi Koganei
in the moonlight
drinking beer on a rooftop
floating over sparkling Tokyo
Yasuomi Koganei
long spring day
resting my head on my arm
thinking nothing
Hiroshi Utano
persistent cold
blaming especially
the lingering chill of early spring
Hiroshi Utano
tadpoles wake up
seemingly had enough of
seeing the bed
Juichi Masuda
butterflies
trying to attend the open-air
tea ceremony
Juichi Masuda
canola flowers
a yellow belt and
light green
Osami Kawasaki
light crimson
as if burning briskly
double cherry blossoms
Osami Kawasaki
"Happy Mother's Day!"
Meeting the 50 cherry seedlings again
each of its own story after planting
Yuzu Sugita
hear the mt. cherry's song!
spotting the mountain with wild wisterias
no sign of war
Yuzu Sugita
bread crumbs line the stump
cardinal selects the best
fastidiously
Stephen M. Block (USA)
bright yellow Fiat
bright yellow dandelion
compete for first place
Stephen M. Block (USA)
bowing in defeat
to the noon day summer sun
my wilting flowers
Royal T. Fruehling, Hawai'i (USA)
the deer run away
the rhinoceros stands still
glowering at us
Hanne Hansen (Denmark)
il vento legge
sfogliando vecchi libri
abbandonati
Anna Mencarelli (Italya)
the wind reads
leafing old abandoned
books
Anna Mencarelli (Italya)
prime poesie
nel rifiorito giardino
primaverile
Anna Mencarelli (Italy)
first poem
in the blooming spring
garden
Anna Mencarelli (Italy)
May Day
the first red camellia
open,
Leanne Mumford (Australia)
fleeting clouds
meet amethyst sunset
with intensity
Michiko Murai
May, flawless sky—
stretch and breathe deeply
palms skyward
Michiko Murai
seriously damaged castle
Kumamoto
sakura starts blooming
Masako Omaki
reflecting the sunset
Tama River
in May breeze
Masako Omaki
no sound
waiting for his cremation
rain on sakura
Yasuhiko Shirota
passing through
sakura tunnel in a wheelchair
his last night
Yasuhiko Shirota
cherry blossom as ever
people more than ever
Meguro River
Midori Tanaka
the building I once worked in
disappeared
breeze and birds through trees
Midori Tanaka
a fresh new teacher arrived her smile infectious
Ikken Ikemoto
entering the school
will he be
a Goethe Millet Bach?
Ikken Ikemoto
rehab in the quiet park
doves pecking
the summer
Takeo Hanaoka
local baseball ground
win or lose
summer has come
Takeo Hanaoka
a glorious day
pedometer surpasses
ten thousand
Michi Umeda
two mothers
long departed
Mother’s Day
Michi Umeda
cherry petals on the river
some stay some flow
drawing large hiragana
Hideo Ebihara
cherry flowers over
young couples gone
--only the aged remain
Hideo Ebihara
dark sky due to dust—
prayer
for nuclear-free Asia
Kazuo takayanagi
earnestly at prayer
palms together
white magnolia
Takashi Ikari
wishing to play
rock-paper-scissors
with each flower of magnolia kobus
Takashi Ikari
only movements the heart
a lizard
looks to the sky
Kazumi Karaki
a shoeshine man’s
worn-out shoes
crawling ants
Kazumi Karaki
leftover on the street
from the full-bloomed cherry trees
--a petal carpet welcome
Kiyoshi Sugita
early summer afternoon
counting the remaining tablets
before visiting the clinic
Kiyoshi Sugita
dots of May rain
running together
becoming lines
Mineko Takahashi
melancholy
in any beauty
sakura
Mineko Takahashi
fiftieth anniversary
appreciation of coin collectors’ interest
foreign mints renewed
Masaaki Oka
populism unsettled?
North Korean tension from the game
of power to dialogue
Masaaki Oka
along the shrine wall
piles of trimmed branches
the smell of green
Crystal Brunelli