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Stella Pierides, British poet, writer and artist of Greek descent. Books include: Of This World (2017) and In the Garden of Absence (2012), both Haiku Society of America Merit Book Award winners, and Feeding the Doves (2013). Stella served on The Haiku Foundation Board of Directors. She concieved and co ordinated the feature Haiku for Parkinson's for The Haiku Foundation.
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Melissa Allen, of  ‘Red Dragonfly‘ featured  my haiku ‘tomato’ and ‘silkworm’  in her regular column Across the Haikuverse, No. 20 and No. 21 editions, respectively. An honour to be included there. What more could a haijin want?

 

Haiku buzz: My haiku came 6th and 7th in the Sketchbook Kukai (peer-judged contest) in the May/June 2011 issue. Sketchbook is a ‘Journal for Eastern and Western Short Forms.’ I am very pleased with the result; this was my first ever kukai! Watch this space…

 

Two of my haiku on the thread ‘Vegetables’ set by the editors of Sketchbook magazine, were picked, together with others, to be featured in the Editor’s Choice haiku thread. They were also featured in the Guest Editor’s Choice, of the same edition.  You can read the haiku in my blog here.

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Haiku from Lake Ammersee

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Ammersee—

where the heavens look

in the mirror

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reflecting the skies

lake Ammersee forgets

itself

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Ammersee–

looking in the mirror

the clouds long for home

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sundown—

the clouds lose their

perspective

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sunset—

golden light anoints

the world

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I wrote this haiku responding to two prompts: the NaHaiWriMo extension prompt, “ mirror,” set by Susan Delphine Delaney; and the call for submissions by Walter Bjorkman. Susan is setting the prompts for July for the wonderful  facebook community of haiku poets, NaHaiWriMo. Walter is hosting the blog carnival Language/Place, on the theme of “Poetry of Place.” Submissions of links to Walter on this theme are open till the 20th of July.

The photograph of the lake Ammersee was taken one evening this summer.

 

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Haiku/Senryu, Sketchbook May/June 2011

From the Sketchbook Kukai, May/June 2011 Vol. 6, No.3 (peer review poetry contest)

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rainbow—

all that remains of

your smile

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          Sketchbook May/June 2011 Kukai 6th place, tie.

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rainbow weaving—

this spider runs out of

silk

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          Sketchbook May/June 2011 Kukai 7th place, tie.

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Haiku in the Sketchbook May/June Editor’s Choices

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beets—

and he wonders how he got

kidney stones

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          Sketchbook May/June 2011, one of Editor’s Choices

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celery crunch—

I always knew you threw

the dice

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          Sketchbook May/June 2011, one of Editor’s Choices