homeless …
a plastic bag drifts
across the sidewalk
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Dietmar Tauchner
Dietmar Tauchner, born in 1972 in Austria, lives & works in Puchberg & Vienna, as a social-worker / counselor, author and lover. His work has been published in various magazines & anthologies worldwide. He received some awards, as the Taisho (Grand Prize) at the International Kusamakura Haiku Competition in Kumamoto, Japan, in 2013; and attended the First and the Second European Haiku Conference, The Haiku North America Conference in 2005, as well as the World Haiku Association Conference 2009 in Lithuania, where he held lectures and readings. Co-Director of 4 short Haiku Films. www.bregengemme.net View all posts by Dietmar Tauchner
that pile of leaves
over there
is a man.
I've got to know a lot of homeless people, and you'd be surprised to know that one of the top international poets, Les Murray, was homeless, and quite happy to be so again if circumstances changed.
I'm glad this is a neutral yet very atmospheric haiku.
the vagrant
a radio presses
to his head
Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit vol.9 no.3 September 1999
Very nice. Tha haiku reemmbers me my poor city. a Haiku by me:
late autumn
a dead butterfly still
on my work desk…
timeh . . . your poem is a gut wrencher