Jane Reichhold
Born 1937 in Lima, Ohio, U.S.A.
Died in 2016
I’ve been writing haiku since the 1960s and have published over 40 books of haiku, renga, and tanka. I have translated 7 books from the Japanese with the best seller being Basho The Complete Haiku. Writing and Enjoying Haiku, also published by Kodansha, along with A Dictionary of Haiku, by AHA Books, are still often on Amazon’s best-seller list. The latest tanka book, was translated with Machiko Kobayashi from Akiko Yosano’s most famous book, Midaregami – Tangled Hair. AHApoetry.com was started in 1995 and AHAforum is the place poets meet online since 2006.
floating away
a twig dropped
from the bridge
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like your scars
known by my fingers
your name
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the breeze
while wearing his boxer shorts
all the way up
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getting lost
in apple blossoms
applause
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cupping her face
both of his hands
her perfume
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music
in the grass
lovers
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one song all night
someone in my son's room
is in love
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unsaid
on her lips
yes
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dreams
the tightrope we walk
without a net
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among fallen petals
a tissue with lipstick traces
another story
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a quarter moon
wearing this white cast
I'm not worth 2 cents
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a triangle
of village love and lust
a couple splits
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blue ink
a letter not written
in the iris
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April arrives
among dancers tossing flowers
the village mad man
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a flag waving
on the street where you live
my heart
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Mother's Day
deciding the cat
must be spayed
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bridging
heaven
clouds
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cloud boats
sailing over the hills
spring is coming
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Jane Reichhold, AHA Books