10 haiku by David McMurray

10句（2022（令和4）年度）

1.

family of swans

having stayed longer this spring…

return to Russia

2.

biting wind–

the war child lines up

empty water bottles

3.

wayfarer’s willows

silent shadow dangles

on the Ukraine border

4.

unbearably loud

the wordless poem

we never wrote

5.

Osaka lockdown…

forgetting her name but not

the scent of wisteria

6.

Japanese whisky

around the autumn campfire

words flared then burned out

7.

scarecrow is still here

exiting the train station

hometown thanksgiving

8.

the red maple leaf…

returned to the library

on page 69

9.

dark side of the moon

across the winter ocean

your half of the moon

10.

summer moon–

light echoes across

the canyon

Notes to the above 10 haiku

1.

“family of swans” Grand Prize Winner in The 76th Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest Awarded October 12, 2022

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