Haiku 4-6

waves over my head
tell myself to just let go

will be over soon

just a small raindrop

on a hot summer sidewalk 

here briefly, soon gone 

river passing by

tranquility of the sound

beauty of the world 

Thoreau

Henry Thoreau
went out
to a cabin

in the woods 

to live ‘deliberately’

not a recluse 

as many think  

mile and a ½

from town 

walking distance

went into town 

once a week 

for supplies 

to see his family, friends 

have dinner

sometimes 

he’d have visitors 

talk to people 

passing through 

the woods

he said 

we should 

try to simplify

I can agree with that

I’d like him a lot more 

if he would have said 

the hell with everybody

moved far far away 

from the human scourge 

Opium Incense

opium incense
reminds me

visiting ancestors 

in their old homes 

many moons ago

homes long gone

demolished

forgotten 

sitting Buddha’s

red silk pillows

old couches

hanging wooden beads 

in doorways

great grandma 

in the kitchen

pork dumplings 

fried rice

chinese sugar donuts

Haiku 1 - 3

a once mighty tree
standing tall in the forest
falls down helplessly

the ocean comes in

taking me far far away

I have peace at last

a father and son

with the warm sun behind them

quietly it sets

Party Haiku

another party
at the next door neighbor’s house

never invited 

under a gray cloud 

it is much like a gray shroud 

I rest here in peace 

despite our efforts 

fate always has the last word

life is preordained