Sunday, January 24, 2016

Haiku--By Robert Epstein--United States

corresponding 
to nothing I know
river ice
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flitting sparrows
mom turns
the wheel of life
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grandma’s birthday
pondering her afterlife
in pine shade
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another month
of no rain she pours
her heart out
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land surveyor exposing the plot
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Robert Epstein is a licensed psychologist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has edited several anthologies: The Breath of Surrender: A Collection of Recovery-Oriented Haiku; Dreams Wander On: Contemporary Poems of Death Awareness; and The Temple Bell Stops: Contemporary Poems of Grief, Loss and Change; as well as two books of haiku: Checkout Time is Noon: Death Awareness Haiku; and A Walk Around Spring Lake: Haiku.  His most current anthology, The Sacred in Contemporary Haiku, was released in 2014.

5 comments:

  1. I look out for your work; it never disappoints!
    Thank you for sharing. I particularly connected with the last one. Ralph

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  2. Excellent collection, thank you for sharing!

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  3. I like these haiku very much. In fact everything I read of yours resonates. It's an Aha moment to come upon good poems like this.

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  4. Robert,
    A nice set of haiku, I particularly liked the third one.
    Your friend,
    David Fox

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