Hidden

A Tokyo midnight scene,
Lights below, moon above,
Stars nowhere to be seen...

Tokyo Garden

Concrete, steel, glass,
Skyscrapers loom
Over the trees and the grass...

In Memorium

Medals for those
Returned from the war
For the others it
Doesn’t matter anymore...

Couch Surfing

While-away a working day
In a prone position,
Doesn’t matter, it’s OK,
I’ve found a different
Path, a better way,
Float as the lights
And moments interplay...

No Exit

Scar on the side of his head
Where they might have cut his brain
The idiot talks to himself while
Wandering around the train
Wary commuters watch
The spectacle of the insane...

Somewhere In Spain

The furious bull
Charges straight ahead,
Misses the matador,
And then he's dead...

山伏

World-be hermit
Climbs the mountainside,
Where he can think,
And hide,
Live off what
The forest will provide...

Daily meditation,
Sometimes
Mortification...

That Noise Above

Scavenger chatting as they fly
Squadrons of Starlings
Swarm an Autumn sky...

Buzz Kill

Emerged from drunk caves
Pretty people of the night
Stumble around in the
Early morning light...

Q&A

He asks how
This ends
She says
It all depends

竜頭蛇尾

Off to a great start
But thereafter
Things fell apart...

Retail Fail

The dying shopping mall,
Once vibrant and proud,
Ruling an empty parking lot,
Can hardly attract a crowd,
Bored employees take
Long breaks and naps,
While oldsters in sneakers
Walk continuous laps,
Around the floors
And across the square
Where plants gather dust
From the dull dead air...

Typhoon Party

The rain pours down
White squall, wet,
And the typhoon hasn’t
Even come here yet,
Hunkered down
In whispers we speak,
Hoping the walls hold
And the roof doesn’t leak,
Pass around bottles
Of sweet rum and gin,
And wait for the weather
Theatrics to begin...

赤ちゃん

A thing which
Mothers know well
The magical goodness
Of a baby’s smell

Chicxulub

Cretaceous end-game
Comet descends,
Dinosaurs never knew
"This is when it ends"...

乾杯のあと

Sometimes it is all
About the libation
And its much needed
Gift of inebriation...

Fallow Ones

These are the good days
Out in the pasture
Where we graze
Ruminating memories
In a cocktail haze

Can’t Go Back

What’s in the past,
Never mind,
It’s something
Left behind,
Lots of nothing
There to find...

Spike The Punchbowl

Hosted by her department head
Office party drudgery
Night of the living dead...

Play With Blocks

In Twenty-first century movies
Lego blocks act and perform
And somehow that is
Accepted as a norm
Colorful bits of plastic
Posture, emote, and bestorm

Scary Blue Planet

They came to Earth
From outer space,
To take a look
Around at the place,
And once they
Learned and understood,
Frightened, they zoomed
Away for good...

Old Fight

What Marines did, 100 years ago,
Dimly remembered, understood,
So distant the bloody business,
In the French forest, Belleau Wood...

Avians

Bird at sunrise
Cries and cries,
Nighttime bird
Won’t say a word...

Hippie Advice

So distracted
But remember this
Keep on trucking
And follow your bliss

神木楠

Towering over the ancient shrine,
The sentient god tree,
Senses, but cannot see,
Its life force permeates,
The cool holy air
It creates...