MADD 1988 TUNES #54

WILD, WILD WEST

Gold chrysanthemum –
fine flecks travel far away
beyond western horizon

haiku

MADD 1988 TUNES #52

THE FLAME

Diaphanous threads
exponentially disperse
producing floral patterns.

katauta

MADD 1988 TUNES #51

A GROOVY KIND OF LOVE

Galactical hearts
travel beyond space and time
continuously beating.

katauta

MADD 1988 TUNES #50

DON’T WORRY BE HAPPY

bubbly baubles
bursting beatifically
blooming brazenly
between
bodacious blackness

alliteration

MADD 1987 TUNES #49

DANCE WITH SOMEBODY

Light-blue flier flits
seeking out dancing partner
at the abandoned graveyard.

katauta 

MADD 1987 TUNES #48

IN THE MIST 

O’ sweet child of mine
your rosy metropolis
crumble like ashes.

katauta

MADD 1987 TUNES #47

AT MY SIDE 

with our without you
the journey into whiteness –
following my chosen road

katauta

MADD 1986 TUNES #46

AT THE BATTLEFIELD

Stalwart Samurais
living on silent prayers
undaunted in face of death.

Dosed by arrow’s spray
intermeshed Samurais fight
past midnight and twilight hours.

sedoka

 

MADD 1986 TUNES #45

TRUE COLORS 

Vivacious calligraphers.
at Asakusa Temple
painting you portrait

Wayward novices
at Asakusa Temple
seeking indoctrination.

sedoka

MADD 1986 TUNES #44

TAKE ME TO CHURCH

Gathered rice farmers
the Autumnal Equinox
Fathers recite fertile songs.

Ancestral image –
beneath lushness rice paddy
and under greying twilight.

sedoka