Poet Profile

Barbara Kaufmann

Barbara is a retired nurse who has fallen in love with Japanese poetry forms, including haiku, haiga, tanka and haibun. When not writing, she can be found hiking in the woods or combing the beach, camera in hand, looking for poem, or gardening in her small backyard which the birds and the bees kindly share with her. She drops everything when the grandchildren arrive.

Awards and Other Honors: Sakura Award, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational [US] (2014).

two sparrows
scrabble along the gutter
melting snow

ribbon of sand
left behind by the tide
summer love

perfectly still
a baby watching
pink blossoms sway

porch light
late into evening
my father's cigar

day moon
a pop fly lands
in a boy's glove

gunmetal the color of election year rain

Credits: "two sparrows" - cattails (Spring 2015); "perfectly still" - Sakura Award, Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational [US] (2014); "day moon" - Modern Haiku 48.1 (Winter-Spring 2017); "ribbon of sand" - Modern Haiku 46.2 (Summer 2015); "porch light" - brass bell: a haiku journal (August 2015); "gunmetal" - Acorn 37 (Autumn 2016).