Bits and pieces of reality. Perhaps of truth. Certainly of fun. One can find whatever he or she needs in order to bear reality. Evrything is in there, encapsulated in a string of words attached on ...
This short poem is composed of haikus designed as snapshots of a suffering man. Each and every one of these still lives encompasses one definite moment in time and space, as if we were only made ou...
The 5-7-5 "rule" was only an early attempt by English-language poets to approximate the rhythms of Japanese speech. However, the Japanese language is different than English in that the Japanese "s...
“Light a candle while you read FIRE BLOSSOMS: The Birth of Haiku Noir; it is a courageous piece of writing, one that is not for the faint of heart. Carl Jung cautioned how important it is to embrac...
Iraq To Ruin
haiku of the disaster
W did great
A collection of mostly bitter and mostly accurate haiku of the first great disaster of the 21st century, eight years of menacing stupidity.
“M. Kei’s collection, Heron Sea, is a wonderful read on several counts. The poems, primarily tanka and haiku, add up to more than their sum; each is a pleasure to read but all together they compri...