Haiku and Senryu
fireweed
to the bee
all honey
*****
just so-
the cricket's song
as the campfire dies
*****
maple leaf falling,
grandfather held by the sway
of autumn silence
*****
mountaintop
every direction
home
James A. Minor (Ed.D., U of South Dakota) is an Academic User Consultant in the Computing Services at Weber State College. He is the author of three collections of haiku and senryu: Against the Night (1986), A Measure of Light (1984), and Blackhill Vision Under the Planting Moon (1982). His poems have appeared in Amelia, Ko, Mayfly, New Cicada, and others.
fireweed
to the bee
all honey
*****
just so-
the cricket's song
as the campfire dies
*****
maple leaf falling,
grandfather held by the sway
of autumn silence
*****
mountaintop
every direction
home