gogyohka

consciously choosing
my most worn out clothes
to enter the new year
as stripped
as I leave it

haiku

doing its best
tiny dog with bad eyes
barking at shadows

gogyohka seqence

a Christmas with my maternal grandmother


glass of sherry
she toasts
the picture of her husband
wishing him
a merry Christmas
 
his portrait
decorated
for the holidays
salutes her
back
 
I pick her up
to take her to
my mothers,
her daughter,
for Christmas eve
 
she's been ready
from early morning
sitting
in her finest dress
waiting, waiting
 
dropping
cheroots ashes
down her front
glaucoma on one eye
the other blinded
 
---*---
 
I took her home
and up the stairs
 
she would finish
Christmas eve
with a quiet moment
memories dancing
in vivid lights
 
the faces that
were gone ...

Gogyohka for Granddad

he let me out
into the world
with the same care
he set our toy ship sailing -
granddad


::::


granddads birthday
I salute his memory
with a decent cigar
knowing well
he would've joined in

''''''
Danish version here

senryu

young boy
with big eyes -
the fireworks sale

gogyohka / tanka

Christmas holidays
on late night tv
carnage and mayhem -
an antidote to
the season of joy?

haiku

silence of snow
now my tinnitus
is polyphonic

haiku

icy mist
naked branches bending -
flock of crows

haiku

Pompeian replica
covered in snow
not ashes

gogyohka

drawing
how many lines
can there be in one pen -

if only one
how long, then?

haiku - senryu

the hissing of Alka-Seltzers and Jingle-Bells

haiku

the fly and I
in mutual agreement
on the subject of sugar

(ad. Issa)

haiku

North star twinkling I fasten the light bulb

haiku

a beetle falling
in the empty room
”plock”

(rev. Basho)

haiku

December sun I pad my belly and put on boots

haiku

jackdaws crossing the golf course, my cigarette's gone out

haiku

Night train

night train
faces tinted blue
mirrored in windows

:-:

staring out the window
i look at the landscape
through my own face


:-:

on the platform
a black and white tv
announcing departures

gogyohka

white and white again
snow covered village
and the sky

only my cold feet telling me
which way is up ...

gogyohka

shoveling snow
cat peeps
out the window
yawns
and licks a paw

haiku

snow-covered garden
wiping the incense ashes
off the unplugged phone

gogyohka

a single star
above the village christmas tree

12 below zero

my cigarette glowing
below

gogyohka

falling
with the snow

getting up again
with the sun

and waiting in between

gogyohka

falling
snow and light
this one day
living in ice
forever and ...

haiku

through the snowstorm
drums and bass from the pub
early christmas party

haiku

through the night
flashes of orange light
snowplows and sleepless

haiku

jackdaws jabbering
in darkness the church bells marks a new day

haiku

more and more
white hairs in the beard -
a stroke of dignity at last?

haiga

haiku

like a ball
in a pinball machine
I've come to this day

to Takuboku Ishikawa

haiku

more and more
the white hairs in my beard
… and now the frost sets in ...

haiku

time-out and daytime tv
”Ach, Mensch”

tanka

why did my ancestor
a Spanish mercenary
in Napoleons army
come to these wet and dark isles at all?
I wish he'd stayed at home ...

haiku

november sun
every window open
along the main street

haiku

ketchup bottle
left the right end up
clings to its content

haiku

so naked the trees
in this cold november sun …
should I varm them?

haiku

seagulls hovering
over the city playground
far from the ocean

tanka

replicas of Greek statues
in coarse cement
by an empty fish pond
one of them holding
a birthday flag

haiku

in the neighbors garden
festive chains of light
all the year round

haiku

unexpectedly high
this blue november sky
over my head

haiku

in this world of dew
a puddle of mud I am
dreaming of bedrock

haiku

pale november sun
everything turns golden
for a moment

tracks in mud

haiku

here in nowhere
with an unshaved face
in the saddest of months

haiku

waiting for the water to boil I put on socks

haiku

sandalwood incense
hailstorm tapping the windows

haiku

cold morning
already thinking
of a hot dinner

haiku

counting syllables
minding the western kigo
what winter stiffness