Don Baird Reads A Selection Of His Haiku

between pages memories pressed


each rose the wind leaves behind

 
powder across the pines across

 
dropping petals a rose leaves town
 

daydreaming how quickly my mind
 

shy moon —
a touch of you
in the mist


near the edge
the loneliness
of the moon . . .


warped bamboo —
an effigy turns
away


storm drain —
the vertical axis
of winter


dripping
into a leaf
winter turns


— 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


raining shadows . . .
the spring moon between
heartbeats
 

sacred spring . . .
leaves dazzle in the wind
of a bassoon
 

silence cracked;
the pine borrows
a crow's caw

whispering . . .
the butterfly's
unusual path


radiation . . .
the unexpected depth
of silence


shoreline . . .
the translucent sunset
of a child