Succulents are great plants! I’ve been rooting them on stones, but this, this is another story! Wood decays…
sempervivum
the decaying stump’s
dream

Succulents are great plants! I’ve been rooting them on stones, but this, this is another story! Wood decays…
sempervivum
the decaying stump’s
dream

I am greatly honored to be the Contemporary Haibun Online’s Featured Writer for August 2024. My heartfelt thanks to editor Rich Youmans and his team.

Dear Readers and Friends, I hope that you will find the time to read my ‘personal’ reflections on haibun.
And while visiting, you will see that Issue 20.2 is packed with wonderful work by exceptional writers. A writers’ and readers’ treasure trove!
dawn rising…
what do the stones
tell me


healing…
the frenzied dance
of the Maenads
herb garden
the bench by the rosemary
occupied

On the fascinating question about the role rosemary plays in memory.
Happy to see the new “Haiku for Parkinson’s” blog post on The Haiku Foundation site: using haiku to reflect on, and gain a sense of control over, the ups and downs of mood in Parkinson’s. Read it here: https://thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-for-parkinsons-mood…/
#haiku4parkinsons#h4p#Parkinsons#ParkinsonsDisease#haikufound#livingwithparkinsons#MovementDisorder#Parkinson’s


stone quarry...
yet another form waiting
to be freed
.

What a nice surprise! My poem in The Mainichi was included in Haiku in English the Best of 2023! Many thanks to the Mainichi Team!

The Haiku Foundation is offering a new, free, email course “Introduction to Haiku” for people impacted by Parkinson’s Disease, including friends and family.
The course is being taught by Sonam Chhoki, editor of the online journal cattails. For more information about the course see here
January floods
rattling of the bronchial tubes
all night


With many thanks to Kirsten Cliff Elliot for including my poem in her Per Diem/Haiku of the Day collection!