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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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Publisher on hiatus
Publisher on hiatus
The waiting for Alexandrias 40: In the Shade of the Lemon Tree is getting longer. Voxhumana-books has gone on hiatus. My publisher has been seriously ill for some time, and is now no longer able to continue with the work. I am very sad about Philip’s fight with cancer and wish him all the best.
I will keep you posted about the book when I have more news. Meanwhile, I hope to see you around this blog and twitter (@stellapierides.com) for short stories, haiku and other forms of prose and poetry.
haiku #26 March 2011
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Adam and Eve –
smell of apple blossom
on the breeze
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haiku #25 March 2011
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no prompt —
the sound of melting chocolate
without the taste
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haiku #24 March 2011
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director’s chair –
granny moves it out of
the sun
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Forget-me-nots
New haiku published in Cuento Magazine today:.
CuentoMag Cuento Magazine #71
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forget-me-nots –/ in the attic father’s hat/ gathers cobwebs
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I wrote this haiku in response to a prompt set in the NaHaiWriMo challenge on Facebook.
haiku #23 March 2011
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harvest –
picking basil leaves
for mother‘s salad
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haiku #22 March 2011
London to Munich.
cherry tree blossom
deja vue
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haiku #21 March 2011
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night train —
her shipboard romance
out of steam
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haiku #20 March 2011
haiku #19 March 2011
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super moon 2034
robotic arm
brushes my teeth
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haiku #18a March 2011
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Fukushima 50 –
Fukushima 50 –
treading through the flames of Hell
they grow wings
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For the heroes risking their lives to avert meltdown in the Fukushima nuclear complex.
See article here
haiku #17 March 2011
haiku #16 March 2011
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Aegean shores
meltemi brings salt
to your lips
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haiku #15 March 2011
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radiation test
will frogs jump into our pond
next spring?
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haiku #14 March 2011
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stepping on catfish
once again we sit
under open blooms
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Thanks to Gabi Greve for her link on the catfish quake deity.
haiku #13 March 2011
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spring quake
ahead of a boat, a house
sails out to sea
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Reflecting the horrendous destruction of the quake, this also associates to the news about a survivor picked up 9 miles out in the sea from the floating roof of his house!
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haiku #11a March 2011
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white silk kimono
on the shrine floor sake
on cherry blossoms
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The horrendous violence of nature unfolding in Japan, and its effects on people and ‘things,’ made me wonder how words could reduce it to human scale; make it somehow comprehensible to me.
Haiku 11a was an attempt to reduce/freeze the violent, fulminant images I saw on TV to a simple, quiet one: a wedding at the shrine interrupted by the tsunami, the wedding sake spilled, the silk white kimono worn at weddings on the floor…
haiku #10 March 2011
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Zorro, open air —
dad cracks pumpkin seeds
with his teeth
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haiku #9a March 2011
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moon shadows —
you let too many petals
fall softly
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haiku #8 March 2011
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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.
haiku #7a March 2011
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hidden
gurgling down the rain pipe
a waterfall
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haiku #6 March 2011
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déjà vu
outside the city walls
daffodils
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haiku #5 March 2011
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conference room:
one way or another
we scale the fish
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haiku #4a March 2011
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churchyard yew —
smoke rings hover above
teens’ heads
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haiku #3 March 2011
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stranded on the mudflats
mother ewe with two lambs —
sound of rushing tide
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haiku #2 March 2011
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under the laptop keys
long after my cat died
her hair
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Also posted on Stella’s Stones
haiku #1 March 2011
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gazing
at the full moon I forgot
all about its hare
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Also Posted on Stella’s Stones
Haiku fever
The National Haiku Writing Month, February 2011, is now over. This was a month of writing at least one haiku each day. It has been a wonderful experience: the writing was great, the organizer and host Michael Dylan Welch (Graceguts) guided the group gently but steadily and the comments were very helpful without being overwhelming. Thank you Michael Dylan Welch, Alan Summers, and fellow participants!
I treated this writing month as a writing retreat. Reading up on haiku technique, enjoying other people’s haiku and getting into the habit of observing my own personal responses to the world. It is like learning to frame in words moments, like a photographer captures them in pictures or an artist sketches them. It is a form of mediation of experience and meditation in one.
Now that it is over, while I miss the discipline of the writing challenge, the support and energy of the community, I also know I gained enough to continue the practice.
I was chaffed when one of my own haiku was one among those highlighted in Red Dragonfly by Melissa Allen. You can read her whole post and enjoy her selections; better still, read her blog! By the way, she writes great experimental as well as ‘normal’ haiku.
While the actual NaHaiWriMo is now officially over, Alan Summers of With Words and Area 17 has agreed to continue prompting eager haiku poets for the month of March. I look forward to responding to the prompts as well as Alan’s, and the participants’ most helpful comments
I am finding out about the plethora of haiku groups and communities writing and commenting on each other’s work. I will be catching up with them soon. Meanwhile, I am exploring The Haiku Foundation’s site and blog: a vital resource for those bitten by the haiku bug.
As of today, I will be posting my haiku in my main blog, in my growing collection of haiku and also in Stella’s Stones; as usual, I will tweet it as well! Haiku published elsewhere will be presented with fanfare!
The file NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month) will be active again next year, in February, when the next official NaHaiWriMo will be taking place.
haiku #28a NaHaiWriMo
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against the fence
a forgotten willow broom
buds
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Posted on Stella’s Stones
Participating in NaHaiWriMo February 2011
