Winter Haiku/senryu

Photo by Terra Delora–terradelora@yahoo.com
little bird and the budding leaves
listen to each other
urgent message from Nature

the whistling windows 
in the wee hour
lone buck in the moonlight

war invasion 
never a humanitarian purpose
crying children in hunger and cold

©Byung A. Fallgren



			

winter Haiku/senryu

Photo by Elda Lepak–elphotopoea@gmail.com
                     pastel sky writes a letter
                     to the snow draped trees below
                     poem of winter silence

                     winter game in Beijing
                     the teen's dream shattered on ice
                     only she could revive it next season

                     as her son's wound closing 
                     the winter road trip also lessens
                     some memory-worn road

                         ©Byung A. Fallgren

Joy

Joy 
by Clarissa Scott Delaney

Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail,
Like the loitering wind
That laughs through stalwart pines.
It floods me like the sun
On rain drenched trees
That flash with silvered green.

I abandon myself to joy--
I laugh--and sing.
Too long have I walked a desolate way,
Too long stumbled down a maze bewildered.

 

			

In the Trust

Photo by Phyllis Castellie
In the Trust

Her love
butterfly wings
in summer day;
the fire in the snow.

Her voice
sun dust glow in the night;
splinters of lake.

Her tears for his wound;
dying little creature;
the soft touch of light
opens the doubt
of the garden gate.

©Byung A. Fallgren