A haiku chapbook
Edited by Stephen Henry Gill
Sternly majestic –
The sound of hailstones
Striking my cypress hat.
Basho
Under the boots
of marching soldiers
sparkle of new-green grass
Children
reading quietly:
the first night
the carpet is spread
KEIKO YURUGI
Bright moon in the sky –
I go out to throw away
The gloom of my heart
NOBUYUKI YUASA
In The pine-dark hills
Beyond the river blooms
One brilliant lilac
JANE WIEMAN
A white egret
has alighted
on the tall pine –
a fresh determination
KAZUMI TSUTSUMI
fragrance of incense floating:
my firm steps on the stones
AKIKO TANABE
Bamboo swaying wildly
Against white clouds –
The tiny red kite
TERUKO TAKAHASHI
Passing by the Milky Way
its red light twinkling –
night flight unknown
YOSHIHIKO SUZUKI
spring snow falls –
melting on the shoulder
of the carpenter back from work
MICHIKO SUZUKI
on a red maple leaf, a ladybug;
what season is this?
RICHARD STEINER
The moon appears –
a gentle breeze prising open
the heads of pampas grass
MIZUHO SHIBUYA
A gust of wind –
cherry petals follow me…
right to my office desk
MAYUMI SAKAKIBARA
To put in writing
on a white page
more white mountains
SAYOKO OZAKI
a lullaby aroma
from the well-starched sheets –
far away,
spring thunder
NICO
Autumn moon…
occasionally illuminating
the dark river of my town
The crows are perched
on leafless branches –
how cold the hail!
AKITO MORI
between the old year
and the new –
one drip of tap-water
HISASHI MIYAZAKI
In reddening fields
A plover stands sentinel,
Head into the wind.
KAMOME
The rainbow is gone –
One black kite wheeling
This way and that
TOSHI IDA
back from daughter's home,
a deep breath under
chestnuts blossoms
REIKO HAYAHARA
From Arashiyama –
The train carrying a faint smell
Of summer grasses
AKEMI HAMADA
Early spring –
on the hill encountering
a glittering ray
KEI GOTO
Before I knew it,
The field was covered over
Wholly with hailstones
Nobuyuki Yuasa
Note on Hailstones
Collection of haiku by the Hailstone
Haiku Circle, a group of friends
that has emerged from Stephen Henry Gill's lecturing work over the past
five years for Ritsumeikan University, the Yomiuri Culture Center and
Kansai Seminar House.
Available: $7; Michio Sano, 1-55
Kyuhoen, Yao-shi, Osaka 581-0817