plum blossoms
a handbag mirror
on the garden bench
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In Frogpond, the Journal of the Haiku Society of America, 37 : 2, summer 2014
Category Archives: Poems
‘the cut and thrust’
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the cut and thrust of space travel agency
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Inspired by an article in the news section of The Independent newspaper about engineers from the space agency NASA managing to produce tiny amounts of thrust using a microwave engine design that could turn space travel on its head.
‘evening cool’
evening cool
the meadow’s breath
condensing
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: heap
‘golden ratio –’
golden ratio –
songs and salvia wafting
through the cool air
NaHaiWriMo prompt: golden
Photo: International Augsburg Jazz Summer, Botanic Gardens, Augsburg, 2014.
‘raining stars’
raining stars
the glow-in-the-dark set
peeling off
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Glow
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Photo taken during a recent walk up the Lainbach, Benediktbeuern.
‘calm in the morning’
calm in the morning
my new short story
full of gusts
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Gust
‘perigee moon’
perigee moon –
making the wine glass
sing
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: glass
‘mind game’
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mind game gondola on the Danube
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Prompt: Game
From the International Danube Festival 2014. Won’t miss this next year!
‘offerings’
offerings…
inside the clam shell
a hermit crab
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: gift
‘cicada shell’ (and Florian)
cicada shell –
a ginger cat’s
loneliness
Prompt: ginger
Florian, who lived in a garden for the first two years of his life, has found a home with us. Welcome, Florian! (From Emile, too)
In VerSuch 1.07.2014
“VerSuch … das projekt gendai haiku“, the German-language journal aiming to showcase the state and development of modern haiku, edited by Dietmar Tauchner and Ralf Broeker, is now online. Pleased to see it includes two of my haiku. Translated by Ralf Broeker, they can be found by scrolling down the July 2014 issue. They can also be read here:
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Nationen im Krieg
die Mathematik des Glaubens
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immer Wildrosen in ihren geheimen Tiefen
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http://gendai-haiku.blogspot.de
1.07.2014 Wartende wir
‘permission’
‘slowing down time…’, ‘sea of clouds’, ‘in the middle’
Responding to three prompts today:
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slowing down time…
she pricks her thumb
on the spindle
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On the one hand, sleeping beauty, on the other, have a look at this article about time freezing or slowing down under certain circumstances: Click here
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Prompt: Scifaiku
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sea of clouds
the catch viewed
in time lapse
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fish
………………………..
in the middle
of a heart-breaking scene…
rustle of new silk
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Philippine Haiku Daily prompt: Swish
‘this flyaway hair’
this flyaway hair
those ground rules
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Prompt: Fly
‘wild iris –’
wild iris –
blurring the edges
of propriety
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Focus
Tanka in “Bright Stars, Vol. 3”
Pleased to have seven of my tanka appear in Bright Stars, vol. 3, 2014, the organic tanka anthology produced by M. Kei of Atlas Poetica. This is what this anthology is about:
“Bright Stars is devoted to five line poetry—tanka, waka, kyoka, gogyoshi, shaped tanka, tanka sequence, tanka prose, collaborative tanka—any form based on the short, lyrical, five part poem originally from Japan.”
And
“Bright Stars focuses on the Japanese aesthetic of ‘akarui’ – bright, loud, energetic, urban, exciting, and experimental.”
Here is the Press Release with more information, sample poems, and how to buy this book. I’ve ordered mine!
‘memory’
memory –
a feather floats
to the ground
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Feather
‘full strawberry moon’
full strawberry moon
the market stall
closes early
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Prompt: Full
‘fog at sea’
fog at sea
the espresso maker spits
and sputters
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fog
‘folded’
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folded inside the heart of a meadow
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Prompt: Fold
‘peony blooms’
peony blooms
the digging fork
I never used
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Fork
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And here is the proof from my garden!
‘lifting the veil ‘
lifting the veil
on the age of the universe –
gamma-ray burst
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Inspired by the story ‘Light from huge explosion 12 billion years ago reaches Earth’ in Science Daily
‘at the crack of dawn’
at the crack of dawn
light enters my periplus –
house finch in summer
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Combining 2 prompts:
NaHaiWriMo prompt: Finch
Philippine Haiku: Crack
‘(de)fences’
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Sharing a photograph from my walk on June 1st, 2014. A field in Schwabia.
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light travel
discarding all
(de)fences
‘just before’
just before
the farmer mows the meadow…
wildflowers in bloom
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Easy
‘loud cries’
loud cries
from the deer enclosure
her light footfall
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Elk
‘effortless’
stories
emerging from their cocoons…
effortless
Rebetiko is the urban blues of the old port areas of the Eastern Mediterranean – Smyrna/Izmir, Istanbul, Syros, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki. If you happen to be in London, you can listen to this soulful music most Monday evenings at the JCR of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, lovingly performed by members of the SOAS Rebetiko Band. SOAS Rebetiko emerged out of music seminars organized by Ed Emery. It is a free event, you only need to sign-in as a visitor at the School entrance/Porter’s desk.
This year, a new event is being organzed by the rebet lovers: The Rebetiko Carnival.
Check it out, and if you can go, go!
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: Effort
stingy sap —
stingy sap –
elegant euphorbia grown
in my absence
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Prompt: elegant
‘new tea’
new tea…
echoes of a dream
just emerging
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prompt: echo
‘The Snail’
evening downpour –
uplifting Matisse
and The Snail
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NaHaiWriMo prompt: even(ing)
Click the link to see Matisse’s ‘The Snail’
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/matisse-the-snail-t00540
