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  Riverbank -
only clover leaves
without luck

Honorable mention - 17th Haiku contest 2015 of 
The Haiku International Association (HIA)
Botanical garden -
the café's empty chairs
sparrow perches

Honorable mention - 17th Haiku contest 2015 of 
The Haiku International Association (HIA)

 

Altocumulus 
le couchant boit l'éclat
de leurs ourlets

Honorable mention -18th Mainichi Haiku Contest 2014

 

Peacock on the tree
the spring breeze tousles
his eyes

Prize Winner - Haiku contest 2013 of The Haiku International Association (HIA)

 

Glow of lakefront lights -
a shadow bikes to the isle
on a shadow bridge

2nd prize - 16th Mainichi Haiku
Contest 2012

 

Valley to mountain
the road turns the time back
from blossom to buds

Sakura Award - Vancouver Cherry
Blossom Festival 2011

 

Musing on dinner
a sudden smell of garlic
from a rear bus seat

Honorable mention - 14th Mainichi Haiku
Contest 2010

 

More view he says
trimming the cherry tree -
trimming my view

Honorable mention - Vancouver Cherry
Blossom Festival 2009

 

 

   
   

winter depression -

she googles the weight

of clouds

 

Mainichi Daily: March 20, 2018

 

Boreas attacks -
curled up on the city roofs
chimney smokes

Mainichi Daily, April 8, 2016
Maiensäss –
im hohen Gras die Kulen
nächtlicher Besucher

Haiku-heute - Ausgabe September 2015

 

Hitzewelle –
mit dem Schatten wandern
ums Haus

Haiku-heute - Ausgabe August 2015

 

Friedhofweg –
zu heiter das Grün
der Abfalltonnen

Haiku-heute - Ausgabe Juli 2015

Himmelsmeer –
das Auftauchen und Versinken
einer Wolke

Haiku-heute - Ausgabe Mai 2015

World Poetry Day--
beyond words a music
trying to connect

Asahi Haikuist Network - May 1, 2015

 

Welttag der Poesie-
ein Specht behämmert die Stille
zwischen den Autos

Haiku-heute, Ausgabe April 2015

 

Patchwork quilt--
the pattern of
neck pain

Mainichi Daily, April 11, 2015

 

Landing...
swan feet push the sun
into ripples

Mainichi Daily, December 26, 2014

 

Baustop-
im Spinnennetz frostet
der Nebel

Haiku-heute, Ausgabe Februar 2015

 

Weltpostdenkmal-
in der Tasche den Brief
nochmals verbummelt

Haiku-heute, Ausgabe Februar 2015 

Bergauf 
Vater's bedächtiger Schritt
nun meiner

Haiku-heute, Ausgabe März 2015

 

Es werde Licht -
am Weg sauber gestapelt
der Wald

Haiku-heute, Ausgabe Januar 2015

 

Herbstwind –
eine Handvoll Gelb wechselt
die Balkonecke

Haiku-heute, Ausgabe Dezember 2014

 

Genfer Blumenuhr –
der Gärtner bettet die Stunden
in Chrysanthemen

Haiku-heute, Ausgabe November 2014

 

Erste Hilfe –
Spinnennetz bepustet und
keinen Dank der Biene

Haiku-heute, Ausgabe Oktober 2014

 

Beach rose hips-
I add to the shopping list
pomegranate

October 3, 2014 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

Mangrove forest –
big fish chase little fish
through the stilts

Tamarind Magazine, Issue 11 - On-line magazine Caloundra

 

Herbstlicher Sommer -
nur aus den Blumenbeeten
noch kein Gejammer

Haiku heute, Ausgabe September 2014

 

Seilbahnrundblick -
der Kondukteur gefesselt
von seinem E-Buch

Haiku heute, Ausgabe August 2014

 

Wolkendecke –
aus einer Ritze sickert
Gold

Haiku heute, Ausgabe Juli 2014

 

Stars and stripes –
in the park sprinkler’s rainbow
a crow paces the blue

July 4, 2014 - Asahi Haikuist Network

A painter watches
cockatoos watching him -
perfect encounter

Tamarind Magazine, Issue 8 - On-line magazine Caloundra

 

Umbrella day –
the lawn under the Paulownia 
a pool of blossoms

May 30, 2014 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

Light spring rain 
on leaves of Lady’s Mantle -
silverlined wells

May 30, 2014 - Asahi Haikuist Network

Ripples in a pothole-
from the raven's beak falls
a string of pearls

May 16, 2014 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

Twilight and yet
the old barn radiant –
witch hazels

Sharpening the Green Pencil 2014, the book of the contest of the Romanian Kukai Group

 

Mist among the reeds –
the swamp begins the day with
cerulean blue

Tamarind Magazine, Issue 6, 2014 - On-line Magazine Caloundra

 

A net of sunrays –
the catch of the day
a dolphin school

Tamarind Magazine, Issue 5, 2014 - On-line Magazine Caloundra

 

End of year fireworks--
in the sparkle of his eyes
I count our blessings

January 17, 2014 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

billowing clouds - -
the lake halved into
silver and slate

December 16, 2013 - Mainichi Daily News

On the park track 
that red leaf - I leave it
for my fellow man

November 1, 2013 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

Hunter's moon -
chasing creepy-crawlies in
a bag of Penny-Buns

October 4, 2013 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

Jays off with the cherries
the agitation in the tree
only wind

August 30, 2013 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

Once upon a time
the conquest of that mountain
on father’s shoulders

 

July 5, 2013 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

The rain ceases -
on the sky-canvas
clouds wet-on-wet

May 31, 2013 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

Quake at nuns’ school –
leather skirt and high heels

and a new learning curve

April 19, 2013 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

Geography lesson –
our first pomegranate
the flavor of Spain

April 19, 2013 - Asahi Haikuist Network

 

City park -
amid forget-me-nots 
gossip planting

Sharpening the Green Pencil 2013, the book of the contest of the Romanian Kukai Group

 

Scorching heat –
stepping off the bus on

first leaf rustle

Sharpening the Green Pencil 2013, the book of the contest of the Romanian Kukai Group

 

Wintry calm –
from the flag pole flappings

of gull wings

March 14, 2013 - Mainichi Daily News

 

For better for worse-
after fifty years her name
is still Sunshine

March 1, 2013 - Asahi Haikuist Network

From a snowy bush
slowing my morning rush
the call of a sparrow

February 15, 2013 - Asahi Haikuist Network

Festival of lights
devil lanterns in a tree
the church blushes

January 18, 2013 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Grass sickle -
with every handful
the brook widens

September 7, 2012 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Through black ink branches
the narrow trail rubbed out
by the cabin's smoke

May 4, 2012 - Asahi Shimbun

 

On the silver moon
by courtesy of a cloudlet
a crater more

April 28, 2012 - Mainichi Daily News

 

His first grape harvest -
the taste of a flask full of rapture
mystery for ever

December 1, 2011 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Hopscotching
from heaven to hell -
flooded track

June 17, 2011 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Tangled trees -
to free the new moon
I walk faster

April 12, 2011 - Mainichi Daily News

 

Brave new world
puts its virtues on shelves -
lucky charm dolls

March 18, 2011 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Cold August -
snowpeak's hem goes
down, up, down

September 17, 2010 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Barge at anchor -
its Sunday cargo
a flock of gulls

June 3, 2010 - Mainichi Daily News

 

Amid green
one chestnut tree
cultivates suspense

May 7, 2010 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Dwarfed cherry-tree
heap of boughs blossom
accusingly

April 2, 2010 - Asahi Shimbun

 

a gull's day
written in runes
on fresh snow

March 5, 2010 - Mainichi Daily News

 

Rushing down the dale
with the howl of a wolf pack
storm claws at the trees

December 18, 2009 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Ruthless gluttons
gobble up full autumn moon -
sick of summer heat

October 16, 2009 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Masonry work -
from day to day the yucca
more ashen

September 26, 2009 - Mainichi Daily News

 

From the gutter leap
raindrops into the dayspring -
sparkling diamonds

June 19, 2009 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Late summer chill -
someone hands me a tract
on global warming

December 24, 2008 - Mainichi Daily News

 

Cows' alp descent -
the chime of bells softens
from year to year

October 17, 2008 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Drooping twigs of red
call forth father's scratched hand
stirring barberry jam

October 3, 2008 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Midnight Down Under -
I step into new fragrances
wrapped in same moonlight

September 5, 2008 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Railway platform -
school children rope-skip
the delay away

September 5, 2008 - Asahi Shimbun

 

In no Haiku mood
for that tousled sparrow
on my lunch table

June 20, 2008 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Downtown park -
two city wolves dog
elderly walker

May 30, 2008 - Asahi Shimbun

 

Vortragsredefluss-
Gedankenabsturz
beim Wort "Ende"

September 2008 - Haiku heute

 

Geschäftsstrasse -
im Becher des Bettlers
die nächste Busse

August 2007 - Haiku heute

 

Milder Januar
die Dachrinne spuckt
das Quäntchen Winter aus

Februar 2007- Haiku heute