I write Haiku too — and also *Tanka:

“*A Japanese poem consisting of five lines, the first and third of which have five syllables and the other seven, making 31 syllables in all and giving a complete picture of an event or mood.”

My GodMom was born in Yokohama to her Dutch/Jewish parents in 1910. They owned an antique shoppe which was all too soon completely engulfed by the Great Earthquake of 1923.