Michael Henry Lee
Born 1951 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Living in Saint Augustine, Florida, USA
windows open now
my cat laying on the sill
in the hazy moon
3rd Place Kiyoshi & Kiyoko Tokutomi Haiku Contest 2010
Leonid showers
the sky continues falling
one star at time
1st place Haiku Now Contest Traditional Category 2012
night fall
in my dreams
there's still time
Runner Up Haiku Now Contest Contemporary Category 2012
cherry blossoms
hanging on till it's time
to go
Sakura Award Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival U.S. Invitational Winner
summer grasses
concealing all the snakes
among us
Editors Choice- First Place Vanguard Division World Haiku Review 2014
shadows and light
what little we know
of ourselves
Pen This Painting Winner United Tanka and Haiku Society May 2015
winter wind
the pond ripples
around itself
Commended Haiku Now Awards 2014
river house
a heron sweeps
between two worlds
Bending Reeds 2012 Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's Member Anthology
winter solitude
another long night
where things left off
Heron's Nest March 2012
parent teacher day
the class turtle
fends for itself
Haiku News Dec. 27 2010
mid day rain
tree frogs peep
me to sleep
Berry Blue Haiku Dec. 2010
cicada shells
all this talk
of a better place
The Temple Bell Stops: Contemporary Poems of Grief, Loss and Change (ed. R. Epstein) MET Press 2012
till death do us part wild geese
Frogpond Volume 38:1 Winter 2015
to be
continued . . .
mayfly
Mainichi Aug 6 2015
moon shadows
one tuffy mouse
gently used
Modern Haiku Winter Spring 2015
in the midst
of monotony . . .
yellow butterflies
A Hundred Gourds Sept 2013
dusk
light hinged on
the last gate paling
Heron's Nest Sept 2015
limitless sky the speck an eagle fills in it
A Hundred Gourds Sept 2015
happy hour
a fog descends
on the local pub
Prune Juice Dec. 2015
infinity pool
releasing my grip
on the handrail
Cattails Sept. 2015
cicada winds
our hollow promise
to meet again
Cattails Sept 2014
forest floor once upon all the time in the world
Frogpond Summer 2014
rustling leaves
fear as old as
the floor itself
Heron's Nest Autumn 2014