Senryu
October’s dawn
Sorrowful as a bedroom
Reeking of booze
Dark hotel room
Lit up by blinking neon light
Paid sex and silence
Echo of Terns’
shrieks
Empty row-boat in a fjord
Spooked is silence
Red plastic
roses
Faded sepia by neglect
Melancholic bouquet
Red plastic
noses
For us to look at and laugh
Sad is the joker
The gloomy guy
At the traveling circus
Is its funny clown
The carob tree’s
shade,
Soft as a dusky mistress
A tropical night
Haiku
Summer sunlight
Filtered through green leaves
Made old moss golden
Saying —
Aphorism
Chase the
rainbow
Not for its illusory gold
But its beauty
