river bank

the saint chants

lifting the sun

*****

baby talk

I silently watch

blooming buds

The 9th Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest, 2017 (Judges: Takehisa Iijima Joe Maricoji, Noboru Oba,  Lisa Somers and Shuichiro Soma

http://samidare.jp/basho/box/e-haiku9e%20pdf.pdf