Waccobb is closing; I'm sure you have all read Barry's post. I want to thank Barry for all the work he put into this site. It was a great contribution to the Sebastopol community.

For those who...

Thick clouds lowering . . .
brown eyes of horses blinking
through the whirling snow

Rebecca Lilly - Shadwell Hills, 2002

After the crickets
have left for winter quarters
the clock ticks louder

Joyce W. Webb -- American Haiku, Vol. II, No. 2, 1964

Such a fine first dream . . .
But they laughed at me . . . they said
I had made it up.

Takuchi -- Translated by Peter Beilenson, A Haiku Garland, 1968

In traditional Japan the first dream of...

All of us sitting
At the foot of the world-tree:
First day of the year.

Shirao -- Translated by Robin Gill, 'The Fifth Season', edited by Jim Wilson

I won't miss this year --
Perhaps its gifts will appear
A decade from now.

Jim Wilson -- December 2020

Seven Seraphim
Sat at the top of the dune
To watch the sun set

James Moore - The Haiku Companion, 2012

James Moore writes in the 'Introduction' to this collection: "I first learned about...

The least of breezes
blows and the dry sky is filled
with the voice of pines . . .

Onitsura -- Translated by Harry Behn, Cricket Songs, 1964

Onitsura is one of my favorite Japanese haiku...

on folded paper
found in this volume of Blake --
a single haiku

Denis M. Garrison - Haiku Harvest 2001 - 2006, edited by Denis Garrison

Denis Garrison, in the early 2000's, was active in...

Inside there is tea
to relieve the aching bones
of old winter's chill

Odin Hartshorn Halvorson -- Hart Haiku: Pieces of a Changing World, 2017

Odin Halvorson is a local, Sebastopol, poet and...

Leaning on the sill
And watching the bright moonlight
Whiten the new snow.

David Hoopes -- A Whisper of Snipe, 2015

David Hoopes published a collection of haiku in the 70's, 'Alaska in...

The light of dawn called --
I heard the angels singing
"Peace on Earth to all."

Jim Wilson - December 2020

Looking through Grandma's
old photographs the children
find only strangers.

Elsie Jachowski - American Haiku, Vol. II, No. 2, 1964

Grandma knits a sock,
grandpa's chair rocks, yet he sleeps;
snow blocks the roadway.

Jerri Spinelli - Borrowed Water, 1964

I love the way end-rhyme is combined with internal rhyme in this...

This cold winter night
no bird sings; just the old moon
in a songless sky.

Peter Britell -- The 700 Haiku of the Carpenter, 2014

I like that haiku has become part of blue collar culture. I...

i have died and dreamed
myself back to your arms where
what i died for sleeps.

Sonia Sanchez -- Wounded in the House of a Friend, 1995

She rubs her cold hands
a thousand times, even ten
thousand times over.

Seishi Yamaguchi -- The Essence of Modern Haiku, Translated by Takashi Kodaira and Alfred H. Marks

I posted a haiku by...

The peasant hoes on.
The person who asked the way
Is now out of sight.

Buson - Translated by Patrick C. Buchanan, 100 Famous Haiku, 1973

Dew catches the sun
and floods the windshield with light.
Two-car accident.

Jim Jones -- Police Blotter Haiku, 2014

'Police Blotter Haiku' is a good example of the popular haiku genre. The...

The falling snow flakes
Cannot blunt the hard aches nor
Match the steel stillness.

Etheridge Knight -- The Essential Etheridge Knight, 1991

Etheridge Knight (1931 to 1991) was an African...

When a thing is said,
The lips become very cold
Like the autumn wind.

Basho - Translated by Daniel C. Buchanan, One Hundred Famous Haiku, 1973

Buchanan's 100 translations of famous haiku was...

Small bird, forgive me.
I'll hear the end of your song
in some other world.

Anonymous -- Translated by Harry Behn, More Cricket Songs, 1971

Anonymous haiku, and tanka, are numerous in...

Smell of the river
casting a line of daydreams
into my window.

Michael Moore - Haiku Landscapes, 2004

Michael Moore (no relationship to the famous film maker) published this collection,...

from these scattered shards
the young archeologist
describes the clay pot

Evelyn Tooley Hunt - Wind Chimes Haiku Journal, 13, 1984

Evelyn Tooley Hunt (1904 to 1997) is best known as a poet...

Concord visitors
drink the wine of morning air,
break the bread of words.

Raymond Roseliep - August 11, 1917 to December 6, 1983
Flute Over Walden, 1976
Thoreau Journal Quarterly, 1973
Quoted...

Autumn waterfall --
as if a horse's tail kept
shaking and shaking

Ishizaki Rokufu -- Translated by James Kirkup, A Certain State of Mind, 1995

chrysanthemums bloom
in a mason's yard between
all the blocks of stone

Basho - translated by John White and Kemmyo Taira Sato, The Haiku of Basho, 2019

Last year John White and Kemmyo Taira...

Pulsing lights, low hum,
Granny prays, hunting dogs whine:
Spaceship lands in swamp.

Mary K. Witte -- Redneck Haiku: Double-Wide Edition, 2005

This is an example of popular haiku. Haiku has...

Dark in the cabin.
No lamp but the blue moon of
the computer screen.

Mary Jo Salter -- Open Shutters, 2003

Mary Jo Salter is a contemporary poet, editor, and teacher. Her work is widely...

Rusty car body
All that remains of a hope
Once so dearly held

Charles Walker - Haiku and High Timber, 2010

Charles Walker learned about haiku when he was part of the U.S. occupation of Japan...

In an autumn wind,
looking through a box of books
left on the corner

Tom Tico - Spring Morning Sun

Tom Tico was a San Francisco haiku poet. His haiku appear in early English language haiku...

Merciful autumn
Tones down the shabby curtains
Of my rented room.

Richard Wright -- September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960 - Haiku 174

Today is the anniversary of the death of Richard Wright. ...

White chrysanthemum . . .
Before that perfect flower
Scissors hesitate

Buson - Translated by Peter Beilenson, A Haiku Garland, 1968

Peter Beilenson founded Peter Pauper Press with his wife...

What can I say to
The butterfly that just flew
Past me, changing hue?

MA. Milagros T. Dumdum - Falling on Quiet Water

Milagros T. Dumdum is a contemporary haiku poet from Cebu, Philippines. ...

Moon moves down the sky
westward as tree-shadows flow
eastward and vanish.

Buson - Translated by Harry Behn, More Cricket Songs, 1971

Harry Behn (1898 - 1973) was a translator of haiku in the...

With the wind of all
in the red hawk's wings, his heart
how smoothly he flies

Brendan Mobert, Age 8 - The Land of Six Seasons, 1983

'The Land of Six Seasons' was an anthology of locally...

On the barren cliff
The fir for her roots finds room --
Love on less may bloom.

Sadakichi Hartmann -- November 8, 1867 to November 22, 1944
Japanese Rhythms, 1933

Sadakichi Hartmann was born...

Sitting in the dark
With the garden bells tinkling,
I feel less alone.

Jinna Johnson - A Thousand Petals, 1971

I felt like posting a second haiku by Jinna Johnson because I particularly enjoy...

A thousand petals
Drift gently onto the ground
Like beautiful thoughts.

Jinna Johnson - A Thousand Petals, 1971

'A Thousand Petals' is one of the haiku books published by Tuttle in the 60's...

Wind, water, and stone
Listening for Ancient ones
Blackbird steps forward

Brian R. Martens -- Three Raven Gate: Haiku & Other Poems, 2019

Martens is a local poet. When 'Three Raven Gate' was...

On the willow hangs
like a spider on its thread
the moon's low lantern

James Kirkup - Formulas for Chaos, 1994

I thought I would post one of Kirkup's haiku since yesterday I posted one of his...

leaves turning color
I grab all the words I can
to end my novel

Leatrice Lifshitz, Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac, edited by William J. Higginson, 1996

In Japan one aspect of...

My daughter leaves home.
Slowly the quietness grows.
The autumn rain falls.

Gunther Klinge - Day into Night: A Haiku Journey, Translated by Ann Atwood, 1980

Gunther Klinge was a German haiku...

Suddenly aware,
leaves which lately graced our trees,
now no longer there.

A. E. Judd -- American Haiku Number Two, 1963

froth on his whiskers
a man in the pub explains
how high the tide was

David Cobb -- Global Haiku, edited by George Swede and Randy Brooks

David Cobb passed away last Friday. He was one of...

Morning sun enters
like a broom. Light brushes dust
off the temple steps.

Yeshaya Rotbard - The Calligraphy of Clouds, 2007

I don't know anything about Rotbard other than what is written on...

Autumn . . . the path now
wanders to oblivion
under every tree.

James Hackett (August 6, 1929 to November 9, 2015)

James Hackett was a significant and influential haiku poet. Hackett won a...

Steam from the red-hot
sun sinking into the sea
clouds the horizon.

Francis Harvey ((April 13, 1925 to November 7, 2014) - Donegal Haiku

Francis Harvey was an Irish poet. He published...

All day the clouds sing
under a sun like summer
a song high and sweet

Nighthawks - Katherine Hastings, 2014

Katherine Hastings was a local Sonoma County poet who hosted a poetry reading...

Jazzanatomy

EVERYTHING is jazz:
snails, jails, rails, tails, males, females,
snow-white cotton bales.

Knee-bone thigh, hip-bone.
Jazz slips you percussion bone
classified "unknown."