Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, & Poems

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Donald Johns is not a household name, and we offer this selection as a reminder of the kinds of work typical in a book of its time (Four Winds Press, 1982): informed in a certain way, friendly, casual.

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.




In the curly Spring
of a green and eager life—
A nightingale sings.


Flying in moonlight
as the year comes to an end—
a flock of wild geese.



On the mountain trail
to Sierra Minarets—
a cricket sings.


Night blooming jasmine—
But with the pale light of dawn
the brief scent is gone.


Will the elm surviv e
yet another Winter’s snow?
Raking Autumn leaves!


I awoke this morn
and suddenly I felt old.
Did it freeze last night?

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  1. My favorite form of poetry – haiku. You certainly are able to point out the wee incidents that make life wonderful

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