Haiku for Spring 2024, Silicon Valley
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The sycamores leaf. Twilights linger along the Monte Bello ridge. The crack of baseball bats provides a steady backbeat to the mournful ranchera music that pours out of the open windows of passing cars. It's Spring. Peter Coe Verbica (also known by the pen name "Shijin") explores the celebration, the work, the wonder, and the toil of rebirth in a series of three haiku.
Three Spring haiku by Shijin
Warrior monk with sword,
evening journey to strange town.
Time to harvest rice.
God emperor,
Protected behind high walls.
Outside, brave flowers.
Woman undressing,
Full wood tub of hot water.
Robin at window. (Poet at window)
These Haiku previously appeared in Eighty Eight Lost Haiku, presented by the Hakone Foundation and translated into the Japanese by Eric Weinbltt.
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