first tree buds
the list of baby names
not chosen
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w. f. owen
w.f. owen (ToDrBill at aol.com) is a Professor of Communication, a founding member of the Central Valley Haiku Club of California, and a member of the Haiku Poets of Northern California and the Haiku Society of America. He publishes regularly in such journals as Frogpond, Modern Haiku and Acorn, and has received awards in the 2001 Henderson Haiku and Brady Senryu contests. In 2002, he has won awards in the World Haiku Festival R. H. Blyth contest and the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program contest sponsored by the California State Library Foundation. View all posts by w. f. owen
from your face a glow
inner beauty of your time
now we two soon three
hisajo
moistened soil:
all that buds
in Hisajo’s garden
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the fourth of march –
from a fig cutting
two new buds appear
by bob
–
piano practice
the little boy keeps hitting
at sister’s piano bars
Chain explosions –
the first grey buds turn into
the green leaves
a difficult poem for me Mr. Owen. We picked out
our first 2 son’s names, and they didn’t make it.
Funny, when Derek was born, the hospital wouldn’t
let us leave until we named him.
Gene
Very nice, Bill.
dwarf peach tree
sprouting
giant pink buds
1918 flu–
manuel and alfredo
my angel brothers
~~~~~~~
inez and i
lost on memorial day–
with brothers flowers
november dusk
rows of blue spruce
tagged $ numbered
august 15
piebald evening skies –
i sigh
the day behind me