An owl

In the pine

Calling

Into moonless dark

 

October

Geese flying

At dusk

The north star

                                         Falling leaves

                                         Winter's Spirit

                                         Spring will come

                                                      --death poem of General Oyaneko

                                                                 from Usagi Yojimbo

                                                                         by Stan Sakai

 

The clouds

Silently pass

The face of the moon

Crickets chirping

 

                                           Home a hut of hearts

October

Days shorter

Yet for hours

The moon rises

 

The bell

The moonlight

In the fullness

Star upon star upon star 

Unbounded blessings

Shining bright 

 

Think on

Hibutsu

Before they stitch your asshole shut

 

Walking around

My home

The night breeze

 

Temple rock garden in flower

 

Below the hut

The bridge

Sound of water

 

Butterfly a nude with flowers

 

On the ground

A robin’s nest

Visiting the home

              of my mother

 

Seeing the butterfly

The moon whispered

My hands are clean

 

November

Rain

No flowers

This moonless night

 

One peace

Mountain road

All sweetness

 

One true thing

Your face

My heart

                                       Rice basket moon mountain

 

Wrinkling her forehead

Gazing out

Morning moon

                                            Mouth open

                                                       A sermon

                                                       Of the flower

 

                                    Rain starting quickening lightning

 

Lying in the dark the stars

 

Shift

In the spectrum

Color of orbit

 

The bell

Out of the fog

A mockingbird

 

 

Out of the fog

The bell

A dove

From the window

The motion of the cloud

A rainbow

Six fold symmetry

Snowflakes

The mountain 

 

                                            To keep you with me

                                            To Heaven I prayed

                                             Already the blessed rain

                                             Answers.

                                                          ---adapted from Lafcadio Hearn

 

Snow angel

Under the moon

In my heart

 

Dawn

This quiet

From the stars

By speeding birds

Broken

 

Heart full of hope

A pilgrimage

The road of prayers

Among the stars

 

In the face

Of love

The face

Of love

 

Alone

In blueness

The mountain

Clouds