Don Baird
Born 1947 in Denver Colorado, USA
Living in Palmdale, California, USA
http://www.kungfukarate.com
Hear Don reading a selection of his haiku
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— the vagrant
holding his hand out
. . . holds his hand —
Haiku Wisdom Modern English Tanka Press, 2011
autumn sunset . . .
shadows of leaves
falling into themselves
Haiku Wisdom Modern English Tanka Press, 2011
out of darkness . . .
a light autumn gust
remembers me
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
fall whispers . . .
the art district’s
late night smoke
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
tsunami shore;
a child’s hands washed
in blood
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
whale carcass;
just near the horizon
a neon haze
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
old sea turtle –
beyond a cold breeze
and plastic bags
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
harboring
a tomato can –
autumn’s voice
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
grilled sardines –
the summer sun raising
the dead
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
half-moon;
the tide appears
undecided
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
light breeze . . .
a bugle’s call crosses
the cemetary
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
longing for home I become a memory
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
marching
in the field of death –
a number
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
on the sleeve
of a priest’s robe –
his tears
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
christmas –
the unopened gift
of forgetting
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
coloring
snow with snow . . .
a winter gust
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
autumn clouds –
the moon folds
into a frown
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
fugu soup –
even my chopsticks
hesitate!
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
waning moon –
a tinge of death
in the halo
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
Jersey Shore;
even a stuffed shark
is homeless
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
shy moon –
a touch of you
in the mist
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
in the space between words worlds
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
her curves in the hands of the moon
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
summer’s heat –
the shrapnel of
a human being
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
high wire all the birds I’ll never meet
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
– between bombs . . .
an evening of love
and body parts –
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
the sunflower
never dreamed of;
Hiroshima
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
old pond –
the sound of something
I had forgotten
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
deadheads –
the flowerless stems
of stillness
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
lost in dreams . . .
I’ve never grown up
to play war
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
twilight –
her child gutted
by a glint
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
tormented –
the brown eyes
of someone
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
AK-47;
the suddenness
of it all
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
shots pop . . .
between the tears
of children
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
wrapped –
but not held together,
her tiny hands
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
evening poker . . .
his legs still walking
the trails of Nam
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
PTSD –
this one daisy,
the world
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
war cries . . .
his ears ring along
his lifeline
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
wind blown . . .
the pathos of a
fallen moon
Haiku: the Interior and Exterior of Being The Little Buddha Press, 2013
between pages memories pressed
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
each rose the wind leaves behind
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
powder across the pines across
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
dropping petals a rose leaves town
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
daydreaming how quickly my mind
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
shy moon —
a touch of you
in the mist
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
near the edge
the loneliness
of the moon . . .
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
warped bamboo —
an effigy turns
away
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
storm drain —
the vertical axis
of winter
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
dripping
into a leaf
winter turns
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
— an old bear;
slowly through the marsh
into the stars —
Don reads his haiku as selected by Dr. Richard Gilbert; In a Day, 2014, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
Haiku — the Interior and Exterior of Being, Little Buddha Press, 2014
nagasaki . . .
in her belly, the sound
of unopened mail
HaikuNow, 2013, 1st Place
The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award 2013
raining shadows . . .
the spring moon between
heartbeats
As the Crow Flies, 2013
sacred spring . . .
leaves dazzle in the wind
of a bassoon
As the Crow Flies, 2013
silence cracked;
the pine borrows
a crow's caw
As the Crow Flies, 2013
whispering . . .
the butterfly's
unusual path
As the Crow Flies, 2013
radiation . . .
the unexpected depth
of silence
As the Crow Flies, 2013
shoreline . . .
the translucent sunset
of a child
As the Crow Flies, 2013
winter bones;
young buds emerge
on wall street
As the Crow Flies, 2013
humid sunset:
the battlefield still bleeds
between grass blades
umbilical —
the astronaut returns
on mother's day
enemy's camp —
a shower in the blood
of fascination
(alluding to Lee Miller, WWII Photo Journalist)
old pond —
the sound of something
I had forgotten
oh snail
you were there
yesterday!
NHK Radio, Japan, Sokon Tadashi Kondo Contest, 1st Place
Kyoto sunset
an orange koi
nibbles the moon
Kusamakura, 2005, 3rd Place
frozen pond
the moon sees
an old face
Kusamakura, 2004, 3rd Place