Author: 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.

red dragonfly
redder still
this sunset

fading light
rain overflows
the gutter

a waitress
refills the sugar
the long day

cutting biscuits
spring sun
through the blinds

spring cleaning
leaving the rosin
on papa’s fiddle

first tree buds
the list of baby names
not chosen

midwinter
the bird’s injured
left wing

saying good-bye
my hand warms
the iron gate

summer’s end
at the high-water mark
pilot whales