neon puddles
the whoosh of traffic
on a summer night
Author: Robert Witmer
Robert Witmer is currently a semi-retired college professor and happy grandfather who, though American, has resided in Tokyo, Japan, for the past 40 years. In addition to his love of poetry, he is an avid sportsman. His haiku have appeared in Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Presence and many other haiku journals and books. He has also published a book of haiku titled Finding a Way.
shortcut
a train ticket
in a crow’s beak
early spring
a slow white rain
dusts the trees
a pinwheel
barely turning
midsummer sun
mountain stream
over slippery stones
dancing with the stars
evening
voices in the marketplace
soften
morning
an egg cracks
from the inside
deep wrinkles
the paths into her eyes
filling with rain
yellow flecks
the evening sky
fallen apples
creases in a map
an old man at the trailhead
squints back sunlight