Poet Profile

Eva Limbach

Eva Limbach works as a pharmacist. In 2012 she began to write haiku and senryu -- since 2014, also in English. You can read her poems on the blog "Mare Tranquillitatis" (see link above).

Late summer
a butterfly's
tousled wing

blue sailors   the strange eyes of a daughter

late summer light
our shadows
hand in hand

the broken walls
and the new ones -
onset of winter

withered wisteria
carefully we choose
our words

snowless winter
the scars in our old
wooden table

Credits: "Late summer" - Asahi Haikuist Network (2015); "late summer light" - chrysanthemum 18 (2015); "withered wisteria" - A Hundred Gourds 5:1 (December 2015); "blue sailors" - Bones 8 (2015); "the broken walls" - Under the Basho (2015); "snowless winter" - cattails (January 2016).