war orphans 

dandelion seeds waiting 

for the wind 

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Published in Haiku in English, Daily Haiku Selection, Mainichi Japan, September 12, 2011

The following piece was included in Mainichi Daily News' Haiku in English: Best of 2010. See all the selections (especially, the haiku of good friends Ralf Broeker, Karol Rosiak, Rudi Pfaller, and Marek Kozubek) and comments made by Isamu Hashimoto, judge of Annual Selection 2010.





all souls' day
the missing jigsaw pieces
I count alone

(December, 2010)






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all souls' day
the missing jigsaw pieces
I count alone







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Published in Daily Haiku Selection, The Mainichi Daily News (Japan), 8 December 2010