Ten Haiku/Senryu by Neal Whitman

 

Unpublished 10 Haiku / Senryu by Neal Whitman

 

mornings are dark

under my wool blanket

deep sleep of frost

 

beyond

a shadow of doubt

deer at our door

 

our Westminster clock

chimes two gongs short –

supper will be late

 

with love from Mommy

used copy of Yeats

now mine to hold dear

 

out-worn heart

in our worn-out time

ICU

 

canned beans

a homeless vet’s

cold reception

 

she’s gone

still I see her

twirling a baton

 

gingko in Japan

said to survive the A-Bomb

Nature’s resilience

 

furloughed –

in the food bank

kneading dough

 

name badges

fluttering in the wind

gingko

 

 

Neal Whitman lives in Pacific Grove, California, with his wife, Elaine. They co-edited the 2021 and 2022 Yuki Teiki Haiku Society annual members anthologies and co-judged the 2022 United Haiku and Tanka Society Samurai Haibun Contest. Neal is haiku editor for Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. Beyond his home borders, like raccoons do not stop at map lines: poetry has been published in Canada, England, Wales, Ireland, the Netherlands, Italy, Croatia, Serbia,  Bosnia/Herzegovina, Slovenia, Romania, New Zealand, Australia, and Japan as well as North of the Future.