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Responses to the haiku for 30 May 2005 by Israel López Balan

1.  
   Ellen Olinger
   2005-05-30 04:00:28
    

   ancient lilacs
   cover the graves
   Memorial Day
   
   more lilacs than seen before
   sensing my parents' presence
   
   for Harold & Enola

2.  
   john tiong chunghoo
   2005-05-30 04:12:02
    

   all soul day
   bumping into next grave's
   daughter again

3.  
   Andrea (a dot cecon at virgilio dot it)
   2005-05-30 06:40:28
    

   dedicated to a children-cemetery that I saw two years ago between Amsterdam and Harlem (Holland)
   
   chilly awake
   on a graveyard
   a teddy bear

4.  
   kate (chrismomxyz at yahoo dot com)
   2005-05-30 08:12:34
    

   searching
   for his name
   among the lost

5.  
   Bill Kenney (bilkny at yahoo dot com)
   2005-05-30 10:44:43
    

   Good one, Israel.
   
   In quite another vein:
   
   Memorial Day
   a real estate broker
   plants flags on lawns

6.  
   P.Stott
   2005-05-30 13:11:54
    

   polishing black marble
   talking to myself
   Grandmother isn't there

7.  
   bob richardson (orgbob at webtv dot net)
   2005-05-30 14:55:54
    

   heavy spring rains
   last of the white petals
   fall to the ground

8.  
   Mixher
   2005-05-30 20:05:11
    

   Bike ride through cemetery
   Flags on graves
   Young lovers kiss.

9.  
   tony slauson (tonyslauson at hotmail dot com)
   2005-05-31 04:40:19
    

   silver pinwheel-
   field of namestones-
   spinning.

10.  
    Ellen Olinger
    2005-05-31 05:39:28
     

    green again...
    the tree that
    turned gold
    and wept
    in spring

11.  
    Mixx (maxamux at cox dot net)
    2005-05-31 13:46:18
     

    memorial day
    the remaining spring blossoms
    scattered in warm winds

12.  
    levon machenry
    2005-06-02 12:05:47
     

    gotta eat to live now dontcha.
    
    
    lost on a sideroad
    i follow my nose
    to a whole hog bar-b-que
    
    
    cold mornig
    the scent of red eye gravy
    wakes me

13.  
    martin
    2005-06-04 18:15:00
     

    crematorium
    rain drips from the trumpet lily

14.  
    Ellen Olinger
    2005-06-06 06:08:26
     

    reading Ruth Stone's
    poems of loss*
    
    our neighbors'
    lilies-of-the-valley
    in bloom
    
    *In the Next Galaxy
    (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)

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