by Towpath Haiku Poets of the Chesapeake Watershed*
Winner of the White Enso award for Japanese-style poetry.





haiku writing--
bonsai method
of clip and grow   (LW)
               
sky
    grasping
hinoki cypress
      bound 
           to 
             earth (BS)


an ancient road
passing through
the bonsai’s roots   (LG)
              
small juniper
in training
two hundred years   (HEB)
            
bonsai overlook
a banana tree creaks
in the wind   (MS)


little pine
the camera app
s l o w l y 
d  y  i  n  g   (RB)
                   
the stone
the builders rejected--
bonsai home   (RSL)
*Roberta Beary (RB), Elizabeth Black (HEB), Lee Giesecke (LG), 
Ryland Shengzhi Li (RSL), Bill Sette (BS), Matt Snyder (MS), Linda Weir (LW) 

Towpath Haiku Poets of the Chesapeake Watershed composed this sequence at a socially distanced gingko (open-air haiku walk) at the National Arboretum, Washington, DC

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