surface rippled by fish fins
dragonflies hover
helicopter hum
Meiji Jingu 15/8/08
skimming insects dance
turtle head rises
trains in the distance on time
Meiji Jingu 15/8/08
breeze on my back dries sweat
gravel crunch behind
no longer alone
Meiji Jingu 15/8/08
sculptures on a perfect lawn
leaves fall without permission
Hara Museum 20/8/08
(this poem has been accepted into the 2nd Haiku Challenge Chapbook)
atop a small hill
glass and metal peaks dwarf me
as I watch the ants
Hibiya 21/8/08
the sound of my pen
faint over insects
record the slipping moments
Hibiya 21/8/08
people collecting
in station entrance
instant rain, ancient city
Morishita 29/8/08
a creak and a cry
building sways gently
holds firm in the face of doubts
Aoyama 6/9/08
grumbling thunder
I think of poems
and of leaving
Ikebukuro 7/9/08
morning sadness
sleep brings no answers
a dull finish
Ikebukuro 7/9/08
spider lands on wood veneer
we are together
here in the wrong place
Ikebukuro 7/9/08
morning breeze hints at autumn
amongst steel and glass
a straw broom sweeps
Aoyama 10/9/08
city builds upwards
the guard on the ground
turns escalators on
Aoyama 10/9/08
in the neatly groomed hedge
mother and daughter
build up secret stones
Shibuya 10/9/08
black crow feasts on food
left for ginger cats
by the green phone box
Shibuya 10/9/08
Yokohama dusk
two suns and one moon
reflections of reflections
Yokohama 12/9/08
blue ballon floating
over Hachiko Crossing
lost in video
Hachiko 15/9/08
[...] I did recently hear that one of my poems from my time in Japan has been excepted into the 2nd Basho Haiku Challenge to be published in a chapbook in mid-2010. [...]