Please leave comments and your favourite haiku of his.
Gene died today.
Just Google Gene Murtha haiku tanka if you haven't come across his work before.
warm regards,
Alan
p.s.
From
BIDING TIME
Selected Poems 2001-2013
by Gene Murtha
an iris
trapped in a vase
like love
there are things
we never wanted
dusk
an empty beer can
taps the dock
brushing off sand
I walk what's left of
the pine dunes
my time here passes by
like the birds overhead
burnt field . . .
i search the clouds
for a friend
for. Bill (William J. Higginson)
Bill died of cancer too.
We should all donate, even a few dollars, to a cancer charity.
God bless you man,
Thanks Alan.
dawn
caught in a dew drop --
the empty swing
The Heron's Nest, vol. V:2
Memorial Day, 2005
last day of school
a stick drags across
the picket fence
moonlight walk
again she asks me
her first name
Under the Basho 2013
an iris
trapped in a vase
like love
there are things
we never wanted
Biding Time: Selected Poems 2001-2013
people change
like the color of
a bunting
I feel at peace
when I'm alone
Rusty Tea Kettle 1:1
I sold everything
except my navajo cross
so precious
this god I hold dear
the same god I gave up
Ribbons 6:1
first warm day
a wheat penny lands
heads up
WHC Treetops, November 2002
summer haze--
a crow flaps free
of the asphalt
Frogpond, vol. XXVII:1, 2004
gale wind
a laughing gull
on one foot
seagull haiku, August 1, 2006
Thank you Marion. :-)
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The Living Haiku Anthology Living Legacies
H. Gene Murtha
(19 October 1955 – 9 October 2015)
http://livinghaikuanthology.com/h-gene-murtha.html
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