Poet Profile

Al Fogel

Began my haiku/senryu journey about a year ago. Thanks to The Haiku Foundation & the AHA forums, I was able to hone my work into publishable shape.

Awards and Other Honors: Runner-Up, Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition (2011); Third Prize, Lyrical Passion Poetry Contest (2011).

Basho's frog. . . 
four hundred years
of ripples

April showers
should I sing
or run for shelter?

moonlit evening
my wife and I
holding hand-helds

dining alone
playing footsies
with the table leg

Bobblehead Day
pigeons in the bleachers
pecking seeds

Credits: "Basho's frog" - paper wasp (Winter 2011); "moonlit evening" - Prune Juice 6 (2011); "Bobblehead Day" - Runner Up, Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition (2011); The Haiku Calendar 2012 (Snapshot Press, 2011); "April showers" - paper wasp (Winter 2011); "dining alone" - paper wasp (Winter 2011).