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Willie, Wilfredo R. Bongcaron
Manila, Philippines


Manila sunset -
a pair of tired fishers
rows towards the coast

sunset by the bay -
the silhouettes lay still
against funnelled light

rain clouds
follow my footprints -
the path dissipates

dark clouds -
the grief that never leaves
a wailing widow

the sun slowly hides
behind the dark clouds -
then silence

water ripples
leave a moving boat -
short trips


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1.
just before dawn
the city is enveloped
in smog

2.
evening rush hour...
the beep beeps of jeepneys
and the smog

3.
fish kill...
the saltiness of the sea
doesn't matter

4.
evening spectacle
a flock of swifts roost
in mid-air

5.
tonight...
the moon is resting
behind the clouds


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shortly before dusk
a queue of motorcycles
jeepneys and cars

at 6:00 P.M.
the stench of the hanging
Quezon Bridge

night trip
an almost empty ferry boat
passes by the bridge



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John Daleiden
Phoenix, AZ



all day
riding the Metro Light Rail--
a homeless man

on every block
new for sale signs--
foreclosure paradise

waiting, waiting
on the six lane freeway
a beggar walks by

red lights flashing
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Fred Masarani
New York, USA




Red Dog

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sunshine---
a poodle wears
snow boots



Times Square new year's eve---
too long a wait
for just a kiss


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New York Snowstorm, January 2011


morning blue sky---
where did all this snow
come from



the blizzard debacle---
but Bloomberg is
a lame duck



half-and-half---
blizzard clouds still over Manhattan
blue sky here



overcast sky---
a car skids on black ice
soiled blizzard snow



East River snow
covers it's banks---
Winter stillness



blizzard whiteouts---
beautiful to watch
from indoors



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Don Baird
Los Angeles, California, USA





lighting up
a beggar smiles
at himself


keeping it slow . . .
another car leaves
my mirror


back alley
an old train track
to nowhere


cars honking
from all directions –
one-way wrong-way!


mounted police
the clopping hooves
on 6th st


one string ...
a street man plays
for money


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Los Angeles, California, USA


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Chen-ou Liu
Toronto, Canada



a 5k
traffic jam on 401
a V of geese honks

traffic jam…
inside the SUV
silence

fleeting clouds
sale flyers scattered
here and there

ER waiting room
three white kids stare at me
I smile back

dimly lit room
face next to face they watch
online videos

Easter morning
a pad-down at the airport
something erected

window shopping
one face looks in
while ten others look out



airwaves jammed
the blizzard brings the highway
to a halt

into Zen Garden
none is allowed to enter --
birds excepted

streetlights lighten
the sign that reads No Parking --
under it, police cars

a boy left crying
Black Friday shoppers rush
for flat screen TVs

Toronto zoo
the setting sun in the eyes
of a lionet

foreclosed home
a half-smashed jack-o'-lantern
by the curbside

his toothless smile...
dropping a two dollar coin
in his coffee cup


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Labor Day
a 100-meter lineup
at the food bank

New Year's Eve fireworks --
smoke and flames pour out
of a rooming house

two strangers stop
in the middle of a road
dogs wagging their tails

New Year cleanup
she finds used condoms
under her son's bed

the harvest moon
caught between two highrises
overflowing dumpsters

starless night
a giant Christmas tree lit up
in Town Hall Square

Sunday sermon . . .
gazing at the cross that hangs
between her breasts

recession...
my Campbell's Soup Cans
is stolen




(Note:
Campbell's Soup Cans 33 x 24 print, a work of art produced by Andy Warhol.)


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Speakers’ Corner
he stands alone gazing
at a cold moon


gazing
into his eyes, the woman
wearing niqab


autumn clouds...
reading Remembrance of Things Past
during the flight


love poetry reading
I wonder where the moon was
when I went inside

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Urban Haiku August 2011

The following are my second set of urban haiku/senryu. I hope together we can rise to the challenge posed by Haruo Shirane:

One consequence of a narrower definition of haiku is that English-language anthologies of haiku are overwhelmingly set in country or natural settings even though ninety percent of the haiku poets actually live in urban environments. To exaggerate the situation, North American haiku poets are given the alternative of either writing serious poetry on nature (defined as haiku) or of writing humorous poetry on non-nature topics (defined as senryu).

This would seem to discourage haiku poets from writing serious poetry on the immediate urban environment or broader social issues. Topics such as subways, commuter driving, movie theaters, shopping malls, etc., while falling outside of the traditional notion of nature, in fact provide some of the richest sources for modern haiku, as much recent English-language haiku has revealed, and should be considered part of nature in the broadest sense.


Haiku:

midsummer night
a homeless man counting
the flea bites

winter dusk
even my puppy
looks old

job interview
just enough snow to bend
the maple branch

end of Ghost Month
a blue mist drifting
through the basement

a wren on the ground
gasping for its last breath...
glass high-rises

faces in the metro
crimson leaves blowing
in the wind


Senryu:

Rosedale Park playground
a teenage mom and her son
fight over ice cream

prayer meeting
he swats a fly
with the Bible

muffled footsteps...
he cancels a Windows session
and starts a new one

curfew at ten
the drunk father forgets
to lock the door

drunk again
I Love You uttered
from his mouth

home from gambling
he holds his baby
high up

downtown Toronto
women in burqa carry
their Birkins

her long stare
at the condom shelves
Double-Seventh Day

(Note:
The Double-Seventh Day refers to the seventh day of the seventh month on the Chinese lunar calendar. It is commonly viewed as Chinese Valentine's Day)




end of Ghost Month
a hard-core Kiss fan
smiles at me

(Note:
Kiss is one of the most (in)famous American rock bands formed in New York City in 1973, whose members are known for their face paints and flamboyant stage outfits)



The SlutWalk
her tight buttock
in police uniform

(Note:
The SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011, in Toronto, and became a movement of rallies across the world. For further information, please watch The Agenda's debate, entitled "Slut Walks" and Modern Feminism., which can be accessed at
http://www.tvo.org/TVO/WebObjects/TVO.woa?videoid?934463278001



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September 2011

Haiku:

For Sale sign
morning glories bloom
on the fence

shattered suns...
a school bus collides
with a truck

autumn sunset
stray dog carcass
cut in two

lovers' lane
a baby crying
in the garbage

broken skies...
a pane of glass falls
from a condo



Senryu:

home invasion
a broken Laughing Buddha
in the backyard

housewarming party
a couple debate
the house price

zen 101
he answers a question
with a question

recession...
a long snaking lineup
for the lottery

nursing home
he sexts
his support worker

To sext is to text someone dirty messages.


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Chen-ou Liu : Poetry in the Moment



. Confessions of A Germanophile
Chen-ou Liu in the German Saijiki


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Bill Kenney
New York


Here are a few that have been published.




spring dusk
the carriage horse noses
a cab's rear end
White Lotus


a rush of starlings
across the highway . . .
the things I don't know
Ambrosia


fitful sleep
the trash carried off
at dawn
Notes from the Gean


twentyfourseven
an empty laundromat
at dawn
Frogpond


winter night
the slow circling
of the bar rag
The Heron's Nest


Central Park
after a jogger
the pigeons regroup
The Heron's Nest


autumn rain
she lights her cigarette
from his
The Heron's Nest


snow in the city . . .
nobody home
in the cardboard box
Magnapoets


airport bar
the long descent
of evening
Modern Haiku


singles bar
she tells him she always
picks losers
Prune Juice


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published at Temps libre


main street
a red pick-up cruises
the spring rain


cold moon
a carriage horse trots
up Sixth


cold moon
the glitter of city lights
in the river


cold rain
lavender neon surrounds
a sex shop window



overtime . . .
through an office window
the harvest moon


winter sunset
shadows of branches
climb the fire escape


streetlight
my shadow growing
fading


waiting for you
at the sidewalk cafe -
half moon


rainy night
a light
in the bookstore window


eating alone . . .
the fortune cookie
left unopened



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Dr.Vidur Jyoti
New Delhi


My semi urban haiku


bare poplars
in the moon's neighbourhood
a vacant nest

fogged up sunrise
an old priest

withered leaves
wearing a wry smile
winter dew

morning nip -
the new chrysanthemums
a trifle pale

dying embers
guarding the gypsy's hearth

winter haze -
gasping for air
the rising moon



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daylight
in the winter haze
a faint birdsong

falling leaves
the news of spring
trickling in

morning fog
my new dahlias too
look so faded

rustling at dawn
the rising sun
mutters her name



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Alan Summers
London, England


mist haze-
a crow cleans its beak
on a rooftop aerial

bright breeze
a sighted person fingers
the statue's eyes


the boom of bass
in out of workmen's hammers
lesser celedines


two boys giggle
as he enters the bike shop ...
the onion seller


Old Curiosity Shop -
laquered dolls
out in the mid-day sun


traffic jam
a driver fingers the breeze
through the sunroof


down the sidewalk
an old vagrant
daisies in his mouth


smell of watermelon ...
the high sun factor face block
just purchased


sultry evening
liquid from the take out bag
runs near the victim


mirror tiles -
a mayfly's legs
in four corners



reedmace & bluebells...
a torn porn magazine
off the cemetery path


an attic window sill
a wasp curls
into its own dust


cricket song
the jogger crunches
between loose gravel


dandelion fluff
Batavia lettuce
the color of money


dusk at the golf club
part of a marker pole
a tawny frogmouth


cemetery entrance-
clean anti-pigeon spikes
on the courtyard cross


inter-city train journey -
a rattling window top
shuts itself


old concrete post
threaded with lichen
its new barbed wire


strange heat -
a week to my birthday
the red ferrari passes again


Waterloo sunset
the Thames disappears
from the Tube map


train judder
sunlight on every ripple
of the river


winter timetable-
the late train leaves behind
half a school trip


dark morning...
the sushi bar opens up
for the train station


field of stargazers
I'm the one who waves
at the Chinese satellite


powdered snow -
a crow's eyes above
the no parking sign


Oxford Street
the sweet chestnut vendor's
blackened fingers


curling up at dusk
the park bench sleeper
turns over a new page


ill all day . . .
a crime novel
in both rooms


down side streets -
seagulls turning the sky
in and out


Hokusai's wave
on her T-shirt:
she strokes my ankle


art cafe
the security guy hums
a James Bond theme


escape velocity
the moon pulls oceans
behind Apollo 11


snow blizzard...
indoors I'm reminded
of Charles Chaplin


coolness of spring rain
waiting with the bus queue
on newly cut hair

flash of yellow
a butterfly headbutts me
in my work break


vodka chilli cocktail
I become a corner
in the edge of a room


double security grills
a common woodpecker stops
the data input


early Spring - the clank
at the railway station
of its clocks seconds


piercing cold-
a balti restaurant doorway
lights up a black cat



the long white apron
of a barman -
the day menu unscrews


tiredness
in the night train microcosm
yawns


park lunch break
office workers' jackets droop
from branches


train window
her reflection
turned away

hot janurary
sweat drips
from a scalpel


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Urban Haiku and Senryu

Many poets live in the big cities all over our world and write about their daily life, sometimes haiku, sometimes senryu.
It is quite possible to find a lot of the changing seasons within an urban life, once you start paying attention.

The collection of season words from Nairobi, Kenya, is quite astonishing. Once the haiku poets get used to observe their surroundings with keen eyes, they find the gems.


City Scenes from the whole world.


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URBAN HAIKU AND MORE
Haiku, Senryu, Hay(Na)Ku and Other
Unrhymed Tercet Poetry
by Patricia Carragon






Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku
Barry George






Contemporary Urban Haiku
Fred Simmons






by Anonymouslee4u



MORE
. Reference .



Suburban Haiku : Peyton Price
Many readers have asked, "Are you my neighbor?" The answer is yes, yes she is. She's the one counting to seventeen on her fingers, grabbing her smartphone, and furtively checking to make sure you can't read the screen.
source : www.suburbanhaiku.com


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external link



. Urban Haiku — Michael Dylan Welch



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Worldwide use


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Things found on the way

Haruo Shirane wrote :

Senryu, as it evolved in Japan in the latter half of the eighteenth century, when it blossomed into an independent form, was heavily satirical, poking fun at contemporary manners and human foibles. English-language haiku magazines have established a distinction between the two forms, of haiku and senryu, in which those poems associated with nature are placed in the haiku category and those with non-natural subjects in the senryu category.

According to the Haiku Society of America, haiku is the "essence of a movement keenly perceived in which nature is linked to human nature". Senryu, by contrast, is "primarily concerned with human nature; often humorous or satiric". While this definition of English-language senryu is appropriate, that for English-language haiku, which tends, by nature, to overlap with senryu, seems too limited.

One consequence of a narrower definition of haiku is that English-language anthologies of haiku are overwhelmingly set in country or natural settings even though ninety percent of the haiku poets actually live in urban environments. To exaggerate the situation, North American haiku poets are given the alternative of either writing serious poetry on nature (defined as haiku) or of writing humorous poetry on non-nature topics (defined as senryu). This would seem to discourage haiku poets from writing serious poetry on the immediate urban environment or broader social issues. Topics such as subways, commuter driving, movie theaters, shopping malls, etc., while falling outside of the traditional notion of nature, in fact provide some of the richest sources for modern haiku, as much recent English-language haiku has revealed, and should be considered part of nature in the broadest sense.

For this reason I am now editing a volume of New York or urban haiku, which, according to the narrow definition of haiku, would often be discouraged or disqualified, but which, in my mind, represents the original spirit of Japanese haikai in focusing on the immediate physical environment. Projects such as Dee Evett's "Haiku on 42nd Street", in which he presented urban haiku on empty movie theatre marquees in Times Square, are, in this regard, both innovative and inspiring. "

-- Haruo Shirane, Beyond the Haiku Moment:
Basho, Buson and Modern Haiku Myths,
first published in Modern Haiku, XXXI:1 (winter-spring 2000)


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Kamakura, Japan

by Gabi Greve
Summer 1990


鎌倉や観光客の夏の陣
Kamakura ya kankookyaku no natsu no jin

Oh Kamakura !
the "Battle of Summer"
of the tourists


. Kamakura

Osaka natsu no jin, the Summer Battle of Osaka
was a famous siege in Japanese history.


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London, England

. Alan Summers



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Los Angeles, California, USA

. Don Baird



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Manila, Philippines

　. Willie, Wilfredo R. Bongcaron



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. Nairobi City, Kenya 　　
The Haiku Clubs of Kenya




New Delhi, India

. Semi Urban Haiku
Vidur Jyoti 　




New York, USA


. Bill Kenney, haiku-usa


. Fred Masarani, Red Dog



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Phoenix, AZ, USA

. John Daleiden 　


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Toronto, Canada

. Chen-ou Liu 　


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Tokyo, Japan


良寛忌　東京駅で　友を待つ
Ryookan ki Tookyoo eki de tomo o mastu

Ryokan Memorial Day -
waiting for friends
at Tokyo station

Gabi Greve, 1994

Ryokan Memorial Day (Ryookan ki)


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Yemen

Heike Gewi




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A letter from a friend:

"These urban sections are important as too many people think haiku are nature poems rather than short form poetry with a season keyword or phrase.

When people think "nature" they often mean sentimental Victorian era type greeting card nature statements, rather from a wildlife or Natural History perspective, or from a historic hokku and haiku aspect.

Kigo can be as effectively incorporated into some urban haiku (though not all) as it can from a solely urban perspective. "



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