Haiku for Stephen Hawking

A universal constant –
Was lost today with
Stephen Hawking’s death

03.14.18

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Notes to this poem…

Haiku H115

Don’t stay in someone’s shadow
Any longer than
A total eclipse

09.27.15 – 06.12.16

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Notes to this poem…

Tanka T064

Reading through over
Two hundred of my haiku –
To find ones about –
Rain, shine, snow, fog, wind and time –
To make concrete poetry

06.07.16

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Notes to this poem…

Tanka T060

I’m writing haiku –
To make concrete poetry –
From many haiku –
But not this one off topic –
That has now become tanka

06.06.16

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Notes to this poem…

Tanka T050

Detoured around block
To avoid sure encounters
With some panhandlers –
But still ran into one so
This haiku became tanka

5.28.16

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Notes to this poem…

Haiku H070

How many haiku –
Would you estimate –
Are composed annually?

03.21.16

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Haiku H058

Hey! It’s your birthday!
Here’s a haiku to
Say happy birthday to  you!

12.09.15

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Notes to this poem…

Haiku H057

November rain – so –
This was what Guns ‘n’ Roses –
Were singing about

11.23.15

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Notes to this poem…

Haiku H056

Cold on the outside –
Warm on the inside –
Running naked in winter

11.18.15

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Notes to this poem…

Haiku H055

I hate dreams in which
Everybody dies –
One by one, except for me

11.17.15

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Notes to this poem…

Haiku H054

Peyton was a name I liked –
‘Til I realized –
It rhymed with Satan

11.05.15

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Notes to this poem…

Tales of an Expat Tourist, a Haiku Collection from Viet Nam

In March 2015, I returned to my country of birth, Viet Nam, for the first time since fleeing as a child refugee in April, 1980. It had been almost 35 years, and pretty much everything was different from the way I had remembered it. While the trip was planned to some extent, I did not know what to expect for most of it. For example, just because I knew Aunts, Uncles and cousins awaited to welcome me, there was no telling how we would get along. I also had no idea how I would react to all the natural things in life there, from extreme poverty to bribery. Then there were all kinds of things and experiences I did not know about to even anticipate encountering.