Haiku Page edited by John Zheng

So honored and blessed to be the featured artist of Haiku Page! I didn't know that I will be having my own section with all these poems with alcohol ink art below. John Zheng sent me the pdf and I was blown away. :-) Soon you will be able to view the full issue on the The Haiku Foundation digital library here.

Indian Kukai # 28 May 2019

World Haiku Association (136th Haiga Contest)

 

 

World Haiku Association 

(136th Haiga Contest, November 2015)

 

Spring Festival Challenge on Haigaonline

Haigaonline  (Volume 15 issue 1, Spring 2014)

 This may be viewed under "haiga challenge."

He Doodles, You 'Ku - Day 21

trying to recall

the color of her eyes . . .

spring garden

See doodle here.

 

Crossing the Bar

crossing the bar

the darker shade

of autumn sunset

 





#27 prompt: Honkadori-esque haiku - allusion to an older,

easily recognizable poem, book or song.

See Nahaiwrimo comments here.

*See Crossing the Bar by Alfred Tennyson here.

 

Mallard Duck Haiku

overcast sky

two mallard ducks

splash colors in the pond

Sketchbook Haiku Thread

March/April 30, 2012:Vol. 7, No. 2
 

World Haiku Association (96th Haiga Contest)

                                                    

World Haiku Association 
(96th Haiga Contest, Jan. 2012)

     I'm so fortunate that there's another photographer in the family, a much better one than me. My brother was generous enough to give me a copy of this breathtaking photo. As soon as I saw it published in WHA, I was eager to post it on Facebook and share it to him. I'm sure he's as ecstatic as I am and that he's also looking forward to seeing more of our works in the near future.    

     Manila bay, a natural port found in the Philippines, is famous for its boardwalk where you can view one of the most awe-inspiring sunsets in the world.   

     Kuniharu Shimizu's comment: "Photograph with mood and goes well with haiku."                                                                       

Music of Heaven

 

 

 

Haigaonline (Vol. 12 Issue 2, December 2011)

This may be viewed under "contemporary haiga."

 

     It wasn't something that I was expecting or waiting for. It was something that happened when I actually just wanted to be by myself. A flock of birds suddenly started chirping non-stop. The birds were hopping from one branch to another. It was a beautiful experience! I didn't care what kind of birds they were, nor what color of wings they had. What mattered at that time was that their songs made my heart sing. Like the haiku master Kobayashi Issa, I have also heard the music of heaven. Here is one of Issa's prose translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa.

     It was widedly rumored that certain persons had heard celestial music coming down from heaven around two o'clock in the morning on New Year's Day. And they say it has been heard every eighth night since. Some told me in all seriousness that they actually heard the music at such and such place on such and such a night. Others dismissed it as simply a prank played by the wanton wind. I, for one, was inclined to take the idea seriously, but could neither accept it as completely true or reject it as absolutely impossible. For heaven and earth are filled with strange and mysterious powers, and we have all heard of the dancing maidens, and the "sweet dew" that came from above. It is not possible that courtiers in the halls of heaven may have been rejoicing to see the world at peace and called for music-- and if we could not hear it, is it not probable that it was our sinful natures that prevented us? In any event, I found myself intrigued, and invited a group of friends to come to my humble cottage on the nineteenth day of March. We all listened intently, from early evening on, but we heard nothing until the first sunbeams touched the far end of the eastern sky. Then all at once we heard a voice-- we heard music-- coming from the plum tree near my window.

Only birds

sing the music of heaven

in this world.

 

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa  

Edited by Robert Hass  

 

Semifinalist for July 2011

    watercolor sunset

  somebody's brushstrokes

  paint my window

  ITO EN North America New Haiku Grand Prix

  Seminfinalist for the month of July 2011

Shukan New York Seikatsu newspaper

*This photo which I took one winter day was the inspiration of my haiku.