Haiku and Senryu
fireweed
to the bee
all honey
just so-
the cricket's song
as the campfire dies
maple leaf falling,
grandfather held by the sway
of autumn silence
mountaintop
every direction
home
James A. Minor (Ed.D., U of South Dakota) is an Academic User Consultant in the Computing Services at Weber State College. He is the author of three collections of haiku and senryu: Against the Night (1986), A Measure of Light (1984), and Blackhill Vision Under the Planting Moon (1982). His poems have appeared in Amelia, Ko, Mayfly, New Cicada, and others.
fireweed
to the bee
all honey
just so-
the cricket's song
as the campfire dies
maple leaf falling,
grandfather held by the sway
of autumn silence
mountaintop
every direction
home