Poet Profile

Warren Lee Gossett

I am a semi-retired Idaho native, having spent most of my adult career in print journalism. and am now a full-time artist, painting and selling oil landscape and still-life paintings. I'm relatively new to Japanese short form poetry but have developed a love for the poetry over the past several years, especially haiku and haiga. My Japanese short form poetry has been published in Simply Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, Notes from the Gean, Frogpond, Shreve Memorial Library Electronic Poetry Network (Shreveport, LA), Haigaonline, Haiku Harvest, World Haiku Review, TinyWords, Mainichi Daily News, Clouds Peak, and I have participated in several collaborations.

a snow goose
cups its wings to land— 
curve of the shore

cicada husks
clinging to the screen door
. . . autumn deepens

county fair
rising sparrows
trail ribbons of dust

field mice 
forage the corn bin 
. . . harvest moon

river's mouth
the osprey disappears
into mist

frigid morning
the brittle echo
of a crow

Credits: "a snow goose" - The Heron's Nest XII:2 (2010); "county fair" - Notes from the Gean 3 (2009); "river's mouth" - Notes from the Gean 3 (2009); "cicada husks" - Notes from the Gean 3 (2009); "field mice" - The Heron's Nest X:1 (2008); "frigid morning" - The Heron's Nest XI:4 (2009).