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skinny dipping —
over the lake sickle moon
and zillion stars
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swallows –
coat and gloves
sent to the attic

“Swallows”, the haiku I wrote responding to a prompt in the Facebook NaHaiWriMo, was one of several picked to be featured for March (2011) by Vincent Hoarau in his sparkling site La Calebasse. I am both honoured and delighted – especially since he translated it into French! This is my first haiku translated into French, indeed another language, and I must say I love the sound of it. Thank you, Vincent!

Vincent’s site is well worth visiting. He generously collects and translates other poets’ work, presenting it alongside his own.  His work and collection were recently commended by Melissa Allen of Red Dragonfly, a must-read blog for haiku enthusiasts.

(To find my Swallows on La Calebasse, you need to scroll down the page here to find it – towards the end. I hope you will enjoy all the haiku featured there, they are delicious.)

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fish wife
stooped over the laptop keys
scaling words
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( Delighted to have this poem in Cuento Magazine, #73, 30 March 2011 – writing is a bit like that, isn’t it? 🙂 )

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earth report —
besides love, caesium
in water and in the air

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Following the news on the BBC that “leaking water at reactor 2 has been measured at 1,000 millisieverts/hour – 10 million times higher than when the plant is operating normally.”
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Adam and Eve –
smell of apple blossom
on the breeze
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super moon 2034
robotic arm
brushes my teeth

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swallows
coat and gloves
sent to the attic
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This haiku was one of several picked by Vincent Hoarau to be featured in his blog La Calebasse, in a set of fantastic spring haiku he shared here.

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hidden
gurgling down the rain pipe
a waterfall

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conference room:
one way or another
we scale the fish

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