Category: Haiku

Under the Bashō 2023

Joyful Mysteries – a sequence

spring morning
the quiet fiat
on her lips

leaping gazelle
the fig
begins to ripen

midnight
the stillness
of a newborn’s cries

pair of turtle doves
a mother presents
her child

temple courts
a mother rushes
to her son
The Luminous Mysteries – a sequence

salted with fire
the Jordan River
aglow

another cup of wine
and another…
mother’s dancing

hearing the good news
the bricklayer lays
another brick

mountain top
the sun rising
overhead

breaking bread
the table
in silence
Under the Bashō 2023