Haiku in High Places
One of my haiku has been read for Empress Michiko in Japan. This happened in August of 1998, at the English-language haiku group the Empress attended in Tokyo,
thanks to haiku poet Kristen Deming, whose husband was a U.S. diplomat in Japan. Here’s the poem:
after the quake
the weathervane
pointing to earth
Another haiku of mine was read at the Baseball Hall of Fame, in Cooperstown, New York, in 2001. It
was part of a paper by Edward J. Rielly, titled “Baseball Haiku: Bashō, the
Babe, and the Great Japanese/American Trade.”
birthday picnic—
grandma’s throw
half way to the toddler
Which was the higher honour? Discuss amongst yourselves.
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