a collection of haiku, tanka, haiga and other forms of poetry
From: Van Buren, Arkansas, United States
About me: The author of "Tangled in Wisteria," he is a music teacher in Van Buren, Arkansas and a father of four. His work has been published in the United States, Canada and Australia, including Haiku Harvest, Clouds Peak, Stylus Poetry Journal, Wisteria, American Tanka, Fire Pearls, Eucalypt and Modern English Tanka.
More.. All work © J. Andrew Lockhart unless noted otherwise. Work may not be reproduced in any form without the author's written permission.
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- Pannasmontata Templates
- Edit-Me
- Edit-Me
- Present Tense (daily photo)
- Magnapoets
- Autumn Haiku 2008
- Summer Haiku 2008
- Spring Haiku 2008
- Winter Haiku 2007
- Autumn Haiku 2007
- Still Shot
- winter haiku 2006
- Falling Leaves
- summer haiku
- ukku spring haiku
- Zafusy
- Haiku Hut
- Edit-Me
- The Arkansas Blog Index
- Haiku Society of America
- Tanka Central
- Modern English Tanka
- America Tanka
- Stylus Poetry Journal
- Haiku Harvest
- Temps Libres
- clouds peak
- One Deep Breath
- Lulu Haiku
- Full Moon Of November
- Frank Williams- Haiku & Haiga
- Isolated Eden
- In My Heart
- Utopian Fragments
- Australian Haiku
- see haiku here
- Summa Summarum
- ink haven
- quantum art & poetry
- Waging Haiku
- witherspoon
- The Memory Thread
- The Solitary Writer
- Amaranth
- Verse Start
- White Cherry Blossoms
- Silent Verses
- Poems Otherwise
- Chapter and Verse
- Poetry For A Night
- yuzublizzard
- Straight From The Heart
- Breathe Beautiful
- By His Grace Alone
- Mandy's Meanderings
- Edith's Section
- Pursuance of Truth
- urban poems
- Hot Cross Haiku
- a window to my soul
- haiku-shelf
- Seagull haiku
- zen speug
- kujaku poetry
- shoot
- Orange Cloud
- Simply Tanka
- HAIKU & SENRYU
- Everyday Issa
- Morden Haiku
- haikupoet.com
- KAMI HAIKU
- Haiku & Tanka Unchained
- wakakusa
- Pink Shoe Haiku
- Hillybilly Haiku
- Fireflies and Petrichor
- River-Tree Whispers
- The Southern View
- Miso Soup
- haiku-usa
- Coffee.Tea.Haiku
- Kami Haiku
- The Plenitude of Emptiness
- dagosan's haiku diary
- f/k/a
- reflekshins
- Origa Haikai
- Heavenly Haiku
- Martha's Blog
- Laughing Ghosts
- Ladybird Haiku
- November Sky Poetry
- B1-66ER'S ARCHIPELAGO
- Life of a student teacher with kids
- falling leaves
- Poet is the New Blah, Blah, Blog
- Temppixie
- I-Land-I-Site
- Sher Ku
- masago-no-haiku
- its_baxter
- The Haiku Poet Blog
- Unlabeled
- seth dream
- Ashi' Haiku Log
- slog2live
- shyamalee
- Who am I not to say?
- Always More Beyond
- Conscious Living Poetry Journal
- When the Heart Speaks
- Rooted
- poetry play
- A Window Within Myself
- yuckelbel's canon
- Life, Love and Freedome
- What's the Poet?
- unguarded utterance
- emerald eyes
- Brown Farm
- Lore's Crosses
- Saline County, Ark. Photos
- Middle Ditch
- Artworks By Sheri Hart
- Photographic Memory
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- Ashi's Photo Log- Brande, Denmark
- Ed Porter - Photos
- Hyde Daily Photos
- Art Musings
- art is life, life is art.
- Elegance Redefined
- The Nichols' Family
- The Browns
- Mrs. Brown's Class
- Surround Sound
- Coevals Perception
- Multiple Synchronicities
- viva forever...
- Ackworth born, gone West
- Silvers of Volitional Thinking
- living for the simple things in life
- thanks for the memories
- thesecondeclectic
- Tabitha Dial's Blog
- Slow Reads
- KALVIC
- Passionate About Life
- A Day In The Life Of Veronika
- Coffee Granules
- grasshopper singing
- Songs to a Midnight Sky
- The Roc's Nest
- A Revision
- word[s]
- Breakaway
- Sugarloaf Mountain
- The Eacrets
- Empty Cerebration
- Lazy Daisy Log
- MOMPOET
- Here in the Hills
- Texas talk and theory
- Lopez Island Life
- quick and to the point
- Justme and my Midnight Thots
- agog and aghast
- Humanyms
- Edge Gallery
- Trying To Catch Up
- From the Edge to the Center
- All Cupcakes, All The Time
- no friend, just my dog
- a bit of this, a bit of that!
- Work in Progress
- Susanna's Billinghay Blog
- The Adventures of Reuben
- Bad Alice
- Brother Terry
- Unicorn Child
- Passionate About Life
- Happy at Home
- ReJoyce in Living
- Blog Pourri
- TN Chick
- The Amazing Shrinking Man
- zen
- Friday's Child
- maremagnum
- wandi
- And You Know What Else
- Poem 2
- A Perticularly Point of View
- killired
- Confessions of a Busy Mom
- 14 Years Counting
- nobody girl
- Nightingale
- Passion
- Kai's Poetry
- Show Them Through Me
- Laughing Ghosts
- Jen's Horde
- Midnight to 4am
- Anything Goes
- What are you looking at?
- Pomegranate District
- tararossstudios
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006,9:15 PM
january spring (haiga)
january spring-
cold thoughts
caught off guard
Monday, January 30, 2006,11:02 PM
her camisole (tanka)
her camisole
left on the bed
with clean sheets-
the phone rings,
I turn
left on the bed
with clean sheets-
the phone rings,
I turn
Sunday, January 29, 2006,10:11 PM
her words (tanka)
her words
in my cluttered mind
hang from wind chimes..
a distant thunder
forewarns the moon
in my cluttered mind
hang from wind chimes..
a distant thunder
forewarns the moon
,11:13 AM
cleaning dishes (tanka)
cleaning dishes
as the sun falls
friday...
a distant laugh
from visitors
as the sun falls
friday...
a distant laugh
from visitors
,10:09 PM
chamomile tea (tanka)
the perfume smell
of chamomile tea
opens my mind...
hearing her voice
in the flower garden
of chamomile tea
opens my mind...
hearing her voice
in the flower garden
Tuesday, January 10, 2006,10:17 PM
picnic table (haiku)
picnic table
abandoned in winter
littered with bird seed
abandoned in winter
littered with bird seed
Saturday, January 07, 2006,11:15 PM
walking alone (haiku)
walking alone
hearing her voice
in the waves
hearing her voice
in the waves
Thursday, January 05, 2006,10:26 PM
giving my past (tanka)
giving my past
to listening children
with open minds
for them to have
a floor for their future
to listening children
with open minds
for them to have
a floor for their future
Wednesday, January 04, 2006,10:18 PM
staring (haiku)
staring
at the television...
daydream at midnight
at the television...
daydream at midnight
Monday, January 02, 2006,10:03 PM
your song (tanka)
your song..
I hear it late at night
from a radio
left on
by accident
I hear it late at night
from a radio
left on
by accident
,9:59 PM
hearing trucks (tanka)
hearing trucks
on a distant highway
he looks strait up
at cobwebs
on the ceiling
on a distant highway
he looks strait up
at cobwebs
on the ceiling
,11:01 PM
I refuse
I refuse
to throw away
my past
just to make room
for a new year.
There's always
plenty of room
for the future.
to throw away
my past
just to make room
for a new year.
There's always
plenty of room
for the future.
,1:24 AM
the grandfather (tanka)
the grandfather
watches children playing
as he thinks
about his past..
and begs for the future
watches children playing
as he thinks
about his past..
and begs for the future