Poet Profile

Chad Henry

I'm a life-long Japanophile and fan of Japanese culture. I've spent some years in Japan working with a theatre group there, that toured throughout Japan, the U.S. and played the Olympics Arts Festival in Barcelona in the 90's. I've always written poetry as a hobby since my teens, and have focused on haiku and related forms for the last fifteen years. I joined a haiku mentorship group sponsored by HSA a few years ago, and attend a couple of haiku groups in my area in Denver, and online.

boarded-up windows
a view of the orchard
and the graves

a few he-loves-me’s
all that’s left
of July daisies

rain-drenched garden
a wooden saint
preaches to the stones

Lent
the paperwhites have
given up blooming

mountain pasture
an old rowboat half sunk
in the cow pond

Crow Moon  
oak leaf fragments
in the singing bowl

Credits:

“boarded-up windows” – Kingfisher #9 (April 2024); “a few he-loves-me’s” – Modern Haiku vol. 55:2 Summer 2024; “rain-drenched garden” – Wales Haiku Journal Autumn ’23; “Lent” – Kingfisher #7 (April 2023); “mountain pasture” – Wales Haiku Journal Spring ’24; “Crow Moon” – Frogpond vol. 47:2, Spring-Summer 2024.