Richard Gilbert
Born 1954 in Connecticut, USA
Living in Kumamoto, Japan
http://gendaihaiku.com
http://sailing-across-oceans.org
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lovers cocoon :
asking their future butterfly
a question
Upstate Dim Sum, Spring 2015 (The Route 9 Haiku Group's Biannual Anthology of Haiku and Senryu) print
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bansky flash mob nyc talkin heads treasure easter island slam
Upstate Dim Sum, Spring 2015 (The Route 9 Haiku Group's Biannual Anthology of Haiku and Senryu) print
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the old pond a frog jum
Upstate Dim Sum, Spring 2015 (The Route 9 Haiku Group's Biannual Anthology of Haiku and Senryu) print
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lovecode the ultrasound of your photons
Rattle #47, Spring 2015 (Los Angeles: Rattle Foundation) print
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solitude
round the frequency
of stars
Rattle #47, Spring 2015 (Los Angeles: Rattle Foundation) print
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apple-snap
autumn brisk
of a crush
Rattle #47, Spring 2015 (Los Angeles: Rattle Foundation) print
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unchangeability --
i leave the earth
that way
kawarazaru kana nokosu chikyû wo anoyô ni
変わらざるかな 残す地球をあのように
Moongarlic, Issue 3, 2014, p.73
[translated into Japanese by Itō Yūki]
日本語訳：伊東裕起
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as an and you and you and you alone in the sea
na mo na to na nomi umi yue ni
汝(な)も汝(な)と汝(な)のみ海(うみ)ゆえに
Haiku in English, (Kacian et al, New York: Norton, 2013, p.240)
[translated into Japanese by Itō Yūki]
日本語訳：伊東裕起
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the blood
the horse i was, left
to the woods
chiya ware mo uma de arishi wo ano mori ni
血や 我も馬でありしをあの森に
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 11:3, 2011, p.10
[translated into Japanese by Itō Yūki]
日本語訳：伊東裕起
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dedicated to the moon
I rise
without a decent alibi
tsuki ni sasagu tashika na aribai naku mezame
月に捧ぐ 確かなアリバイなく目覚め
Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, vol. 1, (Philip Rowland, ed., Tokyo: 2004)
[translated into Japanese by Itō Yūki]
日本語訳：伊東裕起
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a drowning man
pulled into violet worlds
grasping hydrangea
Haiku in English, (Kacian et al, New York: Norton, 2013, p.240) print
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licking the cleft sweet aspirin after rain
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 13:2 (2013) (magazine closed with this issue)
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barely caught her breath on medium
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 13:2 (2013) (magazine closed with this issue)
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as a body born of words
as a body bones of words:
preoccupations she writes
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 12:2 (2012)
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that the thine that becomes the subject of one stroke no as if
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 12:2 (2012)
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time fuck shit piss blue mine love mend leaf kiss must call
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 12:2 (2012)
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unabsolved ululation
uncalculated underscore
unwept unchurch ultrapure
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 11:3 (2011)
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there in the trees to begin with just before and just after love
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 11:2 (2011)
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Please feel free to stay here
there’s a system you
always said that
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 10.1 (2010)
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after the rush
the hollow sound
of the holy
NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, 4 (Philip Rowland, ed., Tokyo, 2004) print
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the sudden sliver of noon
NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, 1-4 (Philip Rowland, ed., Tokyo, 2004) print
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blood orange:
the curving radius
of sunset
NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, 1-4 (Philip Rowland, ed., Tokyo, 2004) print
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three oceans
exported into orbit
in a small cocoon
NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, 1-4 (Philip Rowland, ed., Tokyo, 2004) print
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flown,
her grainy image resolves
from surveillance
NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, 1-4 (Philip Rowland, ed., Tokyo, 2004) print
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returning bones
a stone unwinds
in the breeze
NOON: Journal of the Short Poem, 1-4 (Philip Rowland, ed., Tokyo, 2004) print
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part icles of cha ng e le an h ar d on on e b lu e da y o n
Roadrunner Haiku Journal 13:2, 2013
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running forever
spring after
tragedy
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 12:3 (2012)
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about it on the beach by the trees two moments between that is
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 12:2 (2012)
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with you i the world
i feel there is more f
it
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 12:2 (2012)
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the girl brief. image
and truth. why and
why not. about it.
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 12:1 (2012)
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moon cradled you recall the voice of another I might be the distance
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 11:2 (2011)
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When you dream the inside
smoke between cypress trees
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 10:1 (2010)
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Stay with me
with the light out
and water glass
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 10:1 (2010)
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hungover — ignoble
Jerusalem — cactus
pissing — the cats
Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 8:2 (2008)
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Roadrunner Haiku Journal, 12.2 (2012)