Gust of wind.
The snow’s silence broken
by the hermit’s wind bells.
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Even for the train
and it’s lonely conductor,
a rising moon.
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for M
Staring out a window.
Thoughts of an old love
revived by a waning moon.
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In the mist
two women bathing.
Hazy moon.
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What a mess-
The furniture rearranged
In our hearts
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an angel
finds a dead bird -
“we are of the same meaning.”
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One
moon
I stay you leave

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inside the church
the parishioners miss
the Robin’s sermon
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arguing
the buzzing street lamp
yellows their faces
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open silk robe
making tea-
her children still asleep
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the old prostitute
filled with remorse
at my front door
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I will draw two ravens was just published by Battered Suitcase
These poems were influenced by the work I had done the year earlier working with the haiku form.
click the link I will draw two ravens to read the poem. Also check the video reading of the same poem. Video
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To purchase the journal click here.
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drip, drip, drip
the slow melting winter’s library
row of icicles.
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housebound little girl
furiously blows soap bubbles
autumn gale
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dark autumn night
a kitten mews for its mother
hidden – stars
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About my Poems
These poems are haiku or senryu in a broad sense. They come close to the definition given by the Haiku Society America,
Haiku: a poem recording the essence of a moment keen perceived, in which nature is linked to human nature. Usually a haiku in English is written in three unrhymed lines of seventeen or fewer syllables.
Here is another explaination by Jack Keroauc:
“The American Haiku is not exactly the Japanese Haiku. The Japanese Haiku is strictly disciplined to seventeen syllables but since the language structure is different I don’t think American Haikus (short three-line poems intended to be completely packed with Void of Whole) should worry about syllables because American speech is something again…bursting to pop. Above all, a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella.” Jack Kerouac
Free Verse Haiku had its begining at the turn of the century in Japa. A leading haiku reformist Ogiwara Seisensui[6]. Seisensui (1884-1976) could be regarded as the originator of the free-form haiku movement, though fellow writers Masaoka Shiki and Kawahigashi Hekigoto also deserve recognition.[7] Writers following the early-twentieth century movement known as free-form or free-style haiku (shinkeikō) composed haiku lacking both the traditional 5-7-5 syllabic rule and the requisite seasonal word (kigo).
Let the scholars debate. I will let you be the judge”
Reviews of In Praise of Small Things.
“Your poems are like lessons in loving. Perhaps they ought to be required for all would be ‘lovers’ Iin love or loving; if you are not then what fools your words make of us all, jealous fools we be of this love real or ideal.”
Buffalo47
“A haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi pastorale”, wrote Jack Kerouac and that is exactly what c.a. leibow accomplishes with his refreshingly simple and accessible poems that jog the imagination. His poems are simple, sweet, and accomplish exactly what Kerouac theorized-paint a tiny picture in one’s psyche.”
Hattie MacLeod, City Weekly, Salt Lake City
“Your work leaves me breathless, truly.”
Nicole Hyde
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autumn sends
me a telegram
pale white light
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geese
honking
overhead
the last
one
the
loudest
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the scent of rain
through my open window
tea kettle whistling
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he counts each bee-
tells me there are as many
as he is old
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