Roadrunnner Haiku Journal

February 2007 Issue VII:1

Haiku/Senryu

marlene mountain

the weather its scattered mood
autumn catches up the colors of rust behind the shed
	on the brink another christian war

Dru Philippou

		a flare of birches the way the river quenches the light
	blooming jasmine a final shift of the weathered trellis
lilac fragrance not yet shaped by the wind

Jeffrey Winke

crescent moon in its dark hollow thoughts recede
	shadows layer themselves tight doorway
		behind that smirking face her skull

Helen Buckingham

		Leonids night . . . picking a pomegranate clean
	autumn cancelled - blossom on the line
church cactus observing its own advent

Martin Gottlieb Cohen

winter sunlight curls into the surf
	winter rain buzzards drip from the water tower
	the sounds of mallards fall to the next pond

Patrick Sweeney

		tang of scallions will I be missed
	heat of day. . . little trouble to save the green spider
today I let the heron cross the sky

john martone

Marie Summers

		mid-spring . . . the walls swell under new paint
	Easter morning . . . her shadow finds the egg
your softness I fall into you

George Swede

trapped in a tree the white plastic bag stretches to where the clouds go
	sunset . . . the eastern sky evokes more memories
		morning after the wind has blown all the clouds into my head

Robbie Gamble

	cold rain all day inside twilight deepening
	All Saints' Day sweeping up glitter from her halo
squad car echoing blue off the yoga studio

Anatoly Kudryavitsky

bamboo stems- their memories of the sun
exploring a length of breath autumn wind
		an aspen outside the Deutsche Bank counting its leaves

Dhugal Lindsay

薄明の男は島よ石榴食ふ
hakumei-no otoko-wa shima-yo zakuro kuu

in the dim light
I am an island. . . picking at
a pomegranate

葱剥くや肢の包帯中の肉
negi muku-ya e-no houtaijuu-no niku

peeling a shallot...
the meat that lies within
my bandaged limb

荒梅雨の水母かけらとなり泳ぐ
arazuyu-no kurage kakera-to nari oyogu

gusts of plum rain
a piece of broken jellyfish
still swims