All posts by Stella Pierides

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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Haiku #15 June 2011

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full moon

and magnolia scent—

fish kites

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Fish kites as a symbol of good luck, in the case of this haiku my good luck: seeing the full moon and sitting under the summer-flowering magnolia!

For a thorough description of fish kites and the symbolism involved see the best site there is for kigo, put together by the tireless Dr. Gabi Greve, the World Kigo Database.

Today’s prompt: Full moon, NaHaiWriMo extension 2011.

 

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Haiku/Tanka! #14 June 2011

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Magnolia
Magnolia Exmouth

holding the flag high

they march taller than

trees–

the heady aroma

of summer magnolias

 

 

 

Today I read a post about appreciating and writing tanka in Red Dragonfly’s blog. It should have carried a health warning, something like, Read it at your peril: you will be tempted  to write tanka for the rest of your day(s); or, Read and risk tanka obsession! Something like that to warn its readers of adverse effects. My own first reaction was to write my daily haiku – which I write participating in the Facebook community’s NaHaiWriMo project extension – as my first ever tanka! The day’s prompt had been ‘flags.’ I got carried away, you see. Tongue in cheek, I posted it in the NaHaiWriMo facebook site for the good folks there to see! I only hope Melissa doesn’t see my first attempt!

If you like living dangerously though, do read the post about tanka. It is a tanka beginners’ dream: informative and with a number of good links. So, tanka? I’ll try to do that!