Johnny Baranski
Born 1948 in Chicago Illinois, USA
Died 2018 in Vancouver, Washington, USA
A memorial tribute to Johnny Baranski is archived on the Haiku Northwest website
You may listen to the poet reading these poems here
plum blossoms the old man's toothless grin
Frogpond Vol. 36: 2, Spring/Summer 2013
Sappho's fragments
the moon tonight
not quite whole
Lilliput Review #191, Lilliput Broadside Autumn 2013
spring breeze...
the scent of cherry
tobacco pipe smoke
Honorable Mention USA Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational 2013
Palm Sunday
the cherry blossoms
have yet to fall
Haiku Registry Per Diem March 13, 2013
salt water taffy
on the promenade
a bitter wind
Kernels Summer 2013
cool breeze;
in her new summer frock
the woman's nipples
Frogpond Vol. 34: 3, Fall 2011
in ten summers
the convict's first visit
dragonfly
The Heron's Nest Vol. XIII, No. 4, December 2011
sunning itself on a river rock her string bikini
Modern Haiku 43.2, Summer 2012
long before I came
long after I leave
blossoming pear
Lilliput Review #191, Lilliput Broadside Autumn 2013
coming off the heat of your lips cool jazz
bottle rockets #28, February 2013
Nagasaki sunrise
their shadows tell
the story
Notes From The Gean 4:1, June 2012
predator drone the butterfly is yellow
Bones No. 3, December 2013
summer cabin
with only the roof to go --
first snow
First Snow, Teahouse Pamphlets 2003
labor day picnic worker ants
Cherries on Top, NaHaiWriMo E-Book 2012
a walk-off home run
up and over
the prison wall
this world, HSA Members Anthology 2013
Indian Summer
the cicada's song
grows feeble
Cattails Premier Edition Winter 2013
mountain summit
how easily reached
by the autumn wind
Multiverses Spring 2012
between I Thou the windstorm's anarchy
Under The Basho Autumn 2013
leafless elm the wind takes a bough
Frogpond Vol. 35, No. 3 Fall 2012
white supremacist
his obituary
doesn't mention it
Bones 2, June 15, 2013
'Round Midnight
a 5-7-5 haiku
so square
A Hundred Gourds 2:4, September 2013
first snow
why it gets larger
Mount Hood
Dragonfly a Quarterly of Haiku Vol. 7, No.4, 1979
my home
as the crow flies
just over that snowy peak
Dragonfly a Quarterly of Haiku Vol. 2, No. 2, 1983
off prison barbed wire
snow taking
the edge
Modern Haiku, 21:2, Summer 1990
Chaste Moon --
my virginity left
at the altar
Prune Juice Issue Ten July 2013