Emptiness at the Kathamandu temple — dew polishes the prayerwheels. Volume XI, Number 2 June Moving day the children stick postage stamps on the bare kitchen floor 8.
Volume X, Number 2 June Redwood sorrel buds Volume X, Number 1 March Winter sunset on the surf line jellyfish globes 6. Volume IX, Number 2 June Bright jacaranda filling the hill town courtyard — the grindstone's whir 4. Number 9 April night sky full of clouds backlit by a full moon — grandma's Alzheimer's With Dietmar Tauchner' translation into German: wolkiger Nachthimmel beschienen vom Vollmond — Omas Alzheimer 2.
Number 6 October Autumn issue of Chrysanthemum Number 6 : Barefoot on gravel if only I weighed much less — a cloud of butterflies 1. In the Autumn issue of Frogpond 35 :3 Hiroshima Day the ache of knitting bones 3. In the Winter issue of Frogpond 35 :1 we exchange medical advice summer fog 4.
In the Autumn issue of Frogpond 34 :3 Sun-warm apricots overripe just enough the musk of his skin 3. In the Winter issue of Frogpond 34 :1 Needles of rain stitching the graveside to the grave 2. Peace-talks abandoned the neighbor's gate bangs in the windstorm. Limestone mountains sometimes the Goddess sings sometimes the wind. Memorial Day grandmother wishes on a star for a grandchild The moon turns red as it enters Earth's shadow all that love making The baby monitor babbles to itself night of shooting stars.
Rusty Cadillac filigreed with spider webs — a church bell tolls River eddy someone else's route map slowly dissolves. Creak of a wheelchair the man's small hands prune each bonsai tree Pampas grass plumes shredding in the breeze — I want to be Egyptian Reading his mind incorrectly again — evening chill Ukulele beginner her fingers ache with love songs. In the February issue of Roadrunner using an experimental 4-line format : An ice-blade song hooks down deep going out returning 2. In the February issue of Roadrunner : I sang for your wedding bath, your wedding bed 1.
Season Kigo: phrase denoting the season Poem Where first published. Spring Gray fox Monastery woods gray fox and her kit watching me watching them This Saijiki. Summer Artemesia beach sagewort Graceful sand dunes silver-green Artemesia a vast corps de ballet This Saijiki. I plant a kiss on this shore where I lost her to another woman. Labels: a room of my own , Chen-ou Liu , gender , relationship , tanka. English Original rusting baby buggy fills with pink cherry blossom petals Best Haiku, B.
She lives on a small island in the Salish Sea surrounded by the forest and the wind that sustains her. Labels: butterfly dream , CH , cherry blossom , Cheryl Ashley , haiku , man-nature.
Augustine Florida with his wife, rescue cat, and several bonsai trees. He lives quietly in the hills of western Massachusetts. His most recent books are shards and dust and outer edges. Labels: CT , Larry Kimmel , one man's maple moon , sex , summer , tanka. Babusci is an internationally award winning haiku, tanka poet and haiga artist. Labels: butterfly dream , CH , haiku , nature , Pamela A. Her special interests are Asian forms of poetry, haiku tanka and haibun.
She is widely published in US as well as internationally. Her website: marilynflemingpoet. Labels: butterfly dream , haiku , Marilyn Fleming , moon , relationship. His work has appeared in several journals, online and in print. Keep up with him at gabrieljbates. Labels: CT , existential crisis , Gabriel Bates , man-nature , one man's maple moon , tanka. Labels: a room of my own , Chen-ou Liu , haiku , relationship , shadow , visual haiku.
English Original milking time And a cocker spaniel. Her retirement would be very empty without the lure of writing tanka, haiku, senryu, cherita and other poetry. Labels: butterfly dream , CH , haiku , Keitha Keyes , nature. Her work has appeared in dozens of anthologies, journals, chapbooks and tanka publications.
Labels: death , man-nature , one man's maple moon , tanka , Wendy Bourke. You can find more on Ben online. Labels: Ben Moeller-Gaa , butterfly dream , haiku , loneliness. She has been writing haiku for several years and her work has appeared in numerous print and on-line journals, including, Cattails , Ershik , World Haiku Review , and The Mainichi Haiku. In , , and , her haiku won awards in the Bulgarian Haiku Contest.
Labels: CT , one man's maple moon , Radka Mindova , relationship , tanka. English Original paths crossing Peter and his family live in Southern California, where he works as a licensed counselor. Labels: butterfly dream , CH , haiku , nature , Peter Jastermsky. One of his favorite images in this regard — or perhaps we might call it one of his companions — is a dragon.
So I lay his verse aside, and step outside. In the last light, pine trunks stand black against the far fading light of snow. A sudden wind rises, flows through the highest pine branches, and then flows away into an enveloping darkness that will soon bring a night of glistening stars. It is not an artifact of cleverness to be manufactured at a desk.
A genuine haiku is a map drawn by a traveler who has actually visited the territory in question, not simply speculated about it. He or she has seen, smelled, heard, touched, tasted, felt, dreamed, and discovered. Robert D. Wilson is such a poet; this book is a chronicle of his discoveries.
Reality, however, can be understood to include also the inner spaces of dreams, fantasies and lore. A dragon might not exist yet be exactly as real as the rice field it strolls through. This poet has seen dragons and, thanks to his art, allows us to see them too. Emphasize the word poet in the previous sentence.
Wilson is a master wordsmith whose knowledge of haiku tradition runs deep. Even if he had never written a sentence about haiku as a critic and editor, the one-breath poems in this book contain enough echoes of Basho, Buson, Issa and others to attest to his deep and comprehensive understanding. First, because my task is to invite you to a feast, not to analyze the menu. Let the words sink deep.
David G.
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