Author: vincent tripi

vincent tripi was a founder of The Haiku Poets of Northern California and the founder of The Haiku Circle (www.haikucircle.com), an annual gathering of haiku poets held each June in rural central Massachusetts. The author of 16 books of haiku, tripi began the journal Woodnotes which he co-edited. Having lived in three spiritual communities, much of his poetry reflects a Buddhist foundation. He passed away in August of 2020. His newest book of haiku, my turn now, is due out in early 2023 by Swamp Press.

My old kaleidoscope --
   i look for
      the boy

i think of moths, but
    i mostly think of candles
        the winter solstice

The front door
     wide open
        a shooting star

Still faces it
     the sunflower
          withered by the sun

One fray in the kite’s string summer solitude

cricket songs
all of them
oldies

sometimes tame
sometimes wild
my old rocking horse

yard sale —
the old rug pulled out
just enough

into the spring mist
the mallard pair
and the mallards to come

small town where I grew up
a rusty penny on the tracks

cowbells . . .
the pasture view
never the same

small town
one red light
Valentine’s Day