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January 2013: A buzzing Per Diem month

This month, the The Haiku Foundation Per Diem goes entomological! Insects, bugs, arachnids… Cherie Hunter Day’s collection for the January 2013 Per Diem: Daily Haiku is full of buzz!

She says: “This Per Diem is a chance to rediscover: click of a deathwatch beetle, the taste of hive in the honey, and the architecture of a just spun web. We again visit with water striders, praying mantises, dragonflies, crickets, and maybe even a lowly flea.”

I look forward to the splendid haiku, especially since they bring back to me the insect life of my childhood.

The daily Per Diem poems (one a day, every day), can be found here. 

Happy New Year!

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Season’s Greetings and book voucher

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Season’s Greetings to all my friends. May your coming year be filled with beautiful moments!
Thank you all for the inspiration, company, and support through 2012.

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In case you have time over the holidays, here is a coupon (code: FB59R — valid from 25–29 December 2012) for a free e-book version of my “In the Garden of Absence” from Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/263461

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‘on home turf’ and other winter poems

on home turf

 

on home turf-
feeding watermelon seeds
to the hens

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“On Home Turf,” Haiga, in “A Baker’s Dozen,” issue 4, 15 December 2012
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a fig is not a fig without your mouth
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a pyromaniac’s dream on top of the world

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In “Bones: Journal for Contemporary Haiku,” No 1, 15 December 2012

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at the bottom of the sea the bottom of the sea
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raining stars
how the begging tin
sounds
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in “Presence” #47, December 2012
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past her nails
a truth worth
holding on to

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in Notes From The Gean, #14, p. 28, December 2012
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shooting star –
a baby slithers out
of the womb

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frost bite
the winter bares its teeth
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In “A Blackbird Sings: a small stone anthology”
edited by Fiona Robyn & Kaspalita Thompson, 2012

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Thanking Sheila Windsor

I would like to give special thanks today to UK poet Sheila Windsor for her warm recommendation of my book! I am honored and thrilled to read her wonderful comment on “In the Garden of Absence,” as well as her permission to include it here! In case you missed it, Sheila wrote:

“I cannot recommend ‘In the Garden of Absence‘ by Stella Pierides highly enough. A great Afterword too by Michael Dylan Welch. The book is entrancing.”

Thank you so much, Sheila!

(* The highlighting of titles and names was done by me!)

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‘advent wreath’ #5 December 2012

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advent wreath
the first candle already down
to a stump

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NaHaiWriMo prompt: ornament(s)

Isn’t time passing quickly? Even the candle in my advent wreath burned down already. For those not familiar with this kind of wreath: it is a wreath that sits on the centre of the table (in this case my table) with four, in some cases five, candles; one for each of the weeks of advent. Each week one more candle is lit, until we reach Christmas! At this rate of burning however, there won’t be much to light on that last Sunday!