David Kāwika Eyre
Born in 1946 in the USA and currently lives in Volcano, Hawai‘i.
He has has taught Hawaiian language at Kamehameha Schools for 30 years. His books have won numerous Ka Palapala Po‘okela honors, including the Award of Excellence for By Wind, By Wave, as best natural science book of 2000. Kamehameha–The Rise of a King received the Palapala Po‘okela Award in Hawaiian culture, a Moonbeam Children’s Book Award, a Read Aloud America award, and a Nënë Award. Eyre’s haiku collection, not a one, was published by Red Moon Press in 2018.
opening
the tulip
touched another
summer rain
and the taste
of her mouth
dried field
imagining
butterflies
not a one, Red Moon Press 2018
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog/Daily Haiku 10/7/2019
dawn light
deer prints point
to the pear blossoms
Modern Haiku 50.2 Summer 2019
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog/Daily Haiku 5/28/2020
the quiet
after the wave,
she closes her eyes
Hedgerow 130, Winter 2020.
old age
when did the buds
open?
Akitsu Quarterly Winter 2019
spring fever
an itch goes
unscratched
Chrysanthemum 27, Spring 2020.
sunny day
a fly
luxuriates
bottle rockets 43, 2020
on curve
of moon
morning
Bones 20, July 2020.
summer heat
plums drop
when touched
Akitsu Quarterly Summer 2019
wind in
the nothing
that is
Sonic Boom Issue 15, 2019.
holocaust museum
a trash can full
of staring cups
HUMAN / KIND 2.1, March 2020.
summer breeze
and her breath
in the flute
Acorn Fall 2019
low tide–
breathing moonlight
in and out
Frogpond VOL. 42:2, Spring/Summer 2019
her old hairbrush
a mosquito alights
on its bristles
failed haiku Vol. 5 Issue 53, May 2020.
lying down
with moonlight
on her bed
Haiku Page 10, 2020.
falling shadows
of falling leaves
missing my dad
Autumn Moon Haiku Journal 3:1, Autumn/Winter 2019-2020.
plane descending
to the old country
turbulence
Prune Juice 30, March 2020.
young moon
her lips close
on the empty cup
Presence 67, Summer 2020.
jan.
etc.
dec.
Bones 16, March 2019.