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Category Archive: Senryu

Hatred, zealotry / provide new places daily / to send all our grief. // haiku - micropoetry - haikumages
27 Mar

Hatred, zealotry / provide new places daily / to send all our grief.

Today, we grieve for the victims of hate in Lahore, Pakistan. SOURCE: from the NYT article posted on 3/27/2016 at 12:31pm EDT. PHOTO CREDIT: Arif Ali/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
2016/03/27 at 1:49 pm Leave a comment
The morning paper / unread as eyelids protest / returning to sleep. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
27 Mar

The morning paper / unread as eyelids protest / returning to sleep.

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The R, I, P keys / faded from typing tribute / to those who have died. // micropoetry - haiku - senryu - haikumages
20 Jan

The R, I, P keys / faded from typing tribute / to those who have died.

After a big week of celebrity performer death–David Bowie, Alan Rickman, and Glenn Frey–it occurred to me that I am sadly typing the letters “RIP” far too often these days,…
2016/01/20 at 9:52 am Leave a comment
RIP-David-Bowie // Awoke to sad news / the first day in many years / bereft of Stardust. // micropoetry - haiku - haikumages
11 Jan

Awoke to sad news / the first day in many years / bereft of Stardust.

Thanks for all you gave us. We imagine your journey continues on somewhere else now… RIP Ziggy Stardust, David Bowie.  – the Haikook Photo Details: David Bowie, taken at the…
2016/01/11 at 8:12 am Leave a comment
The sad thing is we are talking about "today's" shooting...
03 Dec

The weather forecast / an ill wind blowing, cloudy / a chance of bullets.

A mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, has left at least 14 dead and at least 17 others wounded. But San Bernardino wasn’t the only mass shooting in America on…
2015/12/03 at 11:25 am 1 Comment
Words, guns, religions / in the hands of bad people / terrible weapons. // micropoetry - senryu - haiku - haikumages
30 Nov

Words, guns, religions / in the hands of bad people / terrible weapons.

2015/11/30 at 8:57 pm Leave a comment
Thanks to all / who sacrificed all / for us all. // haikumages
25 May

Thanks to all / who sacrificed all / for us all.

Thank you, we remember…   – the Haikook –
2015/05/25 at 10:52 am Leave a comment
Looking at the bowl / full of fava beans and wish / I had chianti. // haikumages
24 May

Looking at the bowl / full of fava beans wishing / for nice Chianti.

Twoku: I stare at the bowl / full of fava beans, thinking / Silence of the Lambs. Forgive me, but it’s what I think of immediately — still, years later…
2015/05/24 at 10:43 am Leave a comment
Some haiku / about my haiku / and senryu. // haikumages
16 May

Some haiku / about my haiku / and senryu.

Twoku: Sometimes the Haikook / writes poems about writing / haiku and senryu. I know, it seems oddly self-absorbed, and self-serving, to write about my writing, but haiku and senryu…
2015/05/16 at 5:47 pm 2 Comments
Haikumages - the Haikook - Russ Murray - abstract portrait by Jason Rearick
14 May

Article written / in the newspaper about / my haiku writing.

As you may have noticed, I posted three haiku (senryu) and links to the 5/11/15 article about Haikumages in the Stamford Advocate three days ago, but my children and some…
2015/05/14 at 8:45 pm Leave a comment