NeverEnding Story

hand-me-down shirts with elbows worn thin in dim twilight each boy's gaze tracks the couple  past the orphanage gate Added: this fresh m...

In memory of David Hockney (9 July 1937 – 11 June 2026) Inspired by "A Bigger Splash" (1967) a cloud of droplets from the blue swi...

English Original strange, this life no parents no mate no boss to struggle against, at night I fall asleep to a chorus of frogs Simply Haiku...

English Original my body out of a million mothers -- budding leaves plum afternoon ,  2017 Kristen Deming Chinese Translation (Traditional) ...

in pale sunshine granite boulders dot the paddocks ...  I remember the headstones for miners who once rushed here for gold NeverEnding Story...

English Original defying this chill                                               tiny mauve flowers nod                                   a...

mountain sunrise I forget for a moment this fleeting life FYI: It might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of my haiku below...

hollow-eyed men huddled outside the shelter window hollow-eyed men waiting FYI: This could be read as a prequel to my haiku below: shelter w...

English Original close to death for me an everlasting vow of love in a requiem song has begun to ring Breasts of Snow , 2004 Fumiko Nakajo  ...

English Original a husband paralyzed my old mother blind on both sides this evening of life I enter autumn White Letter Poems , 1998 Fumi Sa...

collapsed school wall a butterfly in shades of charcoal First Place, 2025 Porad Haiku Award Chen-ou Liu Commentary by the judge, Jacquie Pea...

daylight saving ends: on this lazy new day one extra hour with a fly asleep between the window and screen Added: fall time change crows’ caw...

English Original one more time I help Mother write her obituary wisps of fog shroud the maples Winter Deepens , 2018 Margaret Chula  Chinese...

English Original prison fence: the razor wire glints with first light Simply Haiku , 1:3, September 2003 George Swede Chinese Translation (T...

English Original rows of petunias all pink and evenly spaced to think my life could have been that predictable Thelma Mariano   Chinese Tran...

English Original how much life is left to me -- brief, these summer nights Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan , 2018 Masaoka Shiki...

English Original there is no way but that one carries one’s own burden I walk in the dimness of day Eucalypt , 3, 2008 Aya Yuhki  Chinese Tr...

written in response to   Haaretz, Aug 5, 2025 : Large Majority of Israeli Jews Untroubled by Reports of Famine in Gaza, Poll Finds A vast ma...

English Original its name painted out the ghost town water tower tinywords , 16:2, December 20 2016 Garry Eaton Chinese Translation (Traditi...

life is so good why am I dying for this? on the hilltop of the West Bank settlement  he mutters with a cocked rifle  Note: Ls 1&2 allude...