Sunday morning run
fresh scented flowers
on the graves

April running
the cherry blossom
runs ahead of me

between raindrops
gathering his thoughts
a bumble bee

Published: The Mainichi 27 July 2018

Comment by Dhugal Lindsay in Haiku in English: Best of 2018:

A zoomed-in look at the microworld.

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Included in the Annual Selection 2018: Haiku that combine multiple senses

April showers

sprouting

rows of umbrellas

cherry blossom
seeing it
through runny eyes

with work to do
I prefer the view
cherry blossom

April storm
too early
for cherry blossom

the hearse
drives past
cherry blossom

first a cloud
then a blanket
cherry blossom

the cloud
becomes a carpet
cherry blossom

the cherry blossom
I am reminded
by Instagram

airport arrivals

still wearing

holiday shorts

Bamboo haiga

Old Ginger

wisest

of all the spices

the algae

thriving, even

in Holy Water

Published (2018) in Blithe Spirit (Journal of the British Haiku Society) Volume 28, Number 4, page 33

LHA Ref:
Blithe Spirit 28.4, November 2018

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caged pigs

on a lorry

one way ticket

lazy susan

my food arrives

again

perforated moon

deflating

into the rice field

airport fly
arriving
or departing?

Published Poetry Pea 19 June 2018

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moving on
the water remains
under the bridge

early morning
tasting tree pollen
on my lips

early spring
magnolia blossom
just thinking about it

church spider
behind the radiator
preying?

Published (2018) British Haiku Society Anthology 2018 p.21

LHA Ref:
British Haiku Society Anthology 2018

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net casting haiga

taxi radio

saying it all for me

Johnny Cash

high spirits
in the sanatorium
infectious laughter

Published cattails April 2019 page 49

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gender neutral...

undecided

the bamboo tree

frozen harbour

boats

stuck in a moment

winter forest
snow streaked
only by shadows

running

from the snake in the grass

no cliche

through the smoothness
of Oulu
crunching

is life

but

a haiku?

gym bunnies

glancing

at the muscle men

bar conversation

not drowned out

by beer

haiga Toripolliisi ekphrastic

Toripolliisi (The Bobby at the Market Place in English) by Kaarlo Mikkonen in Market Square, Oulu, Finland

haiga for a friend

creosote and sawdust

my father

his workshop

May dew
mud
on my mother’s hands

Published (2018) Wales Haiku Journal Spring

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The Haiku Registry

Irish translation by Irish Writers Centre:

drúcht mhí na Bealtaine

láib ar lámha

mo mháthar

Published - Epstein R (2020) The signature haiku anthology Middle Island Press page 238

darkness

enveloped

by the silence of frogs

the Moomins

a new take

on life

I step

without care

on the padauk

old soldier
with dull eyes
and glinting medals

Published (2019) All the way home: aging in haiku page 295

no emoji

to express

my feelings

Lifecake®

flicking through
my grandson's life

varnish fumes and wet feet
sheltering beneath
the paper umbrella

rags
turning to riches
in the charity bag


Reworked:

in the charity bag
rags
turning to riches

family gathering

all eyes

on i-Pads

Published: Presence Number 61, page 76.

LHA Ref:

Presence 61, May 2018

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eventually
onanistic pleasure stops
but his wife dies

(ekphrastic on Orhan Pamuk’s A strangeness in my mind)

on the easel
an unfinished painting
his last stroke

Easter garden

battling squirrels

for chocolate eggs

the artist

still with us

your son

for Eddie Orme, died Easter Saturday 2019

gin + tonic
is it time yet?
retirement

boxing clever
giving and receiving
punches

(ekphrastic on Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder 31 March 2018)

spring bloom
hay fever
the final straw