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Haiku Sequence, Diogen Pro Kultura, Autumn 2013, Third Place (tied)

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autumn butterflies
the way she flutters
her eyelashes
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across the chirping
of the pine crickets
a splash of red
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pine crickets
too late
to let go
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autumn butterfly
I never thought
I’d give up
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pine crickets
I too hide
in the pine
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Diogen Pro Kultura magazin: Third Place (tied) Autumn Haiku Sequence
Selected by: Đurđa Vukelić-Rožić Deputy editor in chief DIOGEN pro culture magazine for HAIKU Ivanić Grad, Croatia Sabahudin Hadžialić Editor in chief DIOGEN pro culture magazine 14.12.2013. Einhorn Verlag S. Begman, Küsnacht, Schweiz 14.12.2013.

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‘after harvest moon’ #21 September 2013

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after harvest moon                                             nach dem Erntemond
how quickly the apples turn                                wie rasch die Äpfel
into juice                                                              zu Saft werden

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I spent this morning making apple juice. Well, not exactly! Driving the apples to the
Gardeners’ Association in Fischach, to be made into juice, I mean!
Here is the process:

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Loading the apples
Extracting the juice from the pulp

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Heating and then filling the juice into special containers

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after harvest moon
taste of autumn lingers
in the juice

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nach dem Erntemond
Herbstgeschmack
im Saft

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Photos S. Pierides by kind permission of the friendly members of the Obst- und Gartenbauverein Fischach e.V.

Blog, Journals 2013

BluePrintReview, issue 30, April 2013

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autumn river
I count the moonbeams
on his hair
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in BluePrintReview, issue 30, in/stance(s), April 2013

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train whistle in the distance deer tracks
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in BluePrintReview, issue 30, in/stance(s), April 2013

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city in winter –
loneliness sweeps through
the terraces
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in BluePrintReview, issue 30, in/stance(s), April 2013

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rumours –
rush of water
over stone
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in BluePrintReview, issue 30, in/stance(s), April 2013

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grilled fish –
reducing the moon’s glare
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in BluePrintReview, issue 30, in/stance(s), April 2013

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chicken broth
the slow unravelling
of time
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in NFTG, January 2013
in BluePrintReview, issue 30, in/stance(s), April 2013

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lavender moon the weight of a butterfly
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in BluePrintReview, issue 30, in/stance(s), April 2013

in Haiku News forthcoming
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first haiku
soothing fragrance
of green tea
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in BluePrintReview, issue 30, in/stance(s), April 2013

 

 

 

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‘Autumn loneliness’ in Asahi #2 November 2012

Now my scarecrow has a wife! At least in the poem “Autumn loneliness”! Thrilled that my poem is included in the Asahi Haikuist Network, edition 2 November 2012, From the Notebook section! Scroll down slowly, enjoy great poems by poets you know on the way!  Click here

I have copied the absolutely wonderful  illustration from the Asahi Haikuist Network page in the Asahi Shimbun below, assuming it is OK to do so (I’d be more than happy to remove it immediately, if it infringes any copyright  or other rights).

(Illustration by Mitsuaki Kojima)

And here is David McMurray‘s reading of the poem:

“Hardworking farmhands in Germany sometimes need help finding partners…”

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Autumn loneliness

a farmer makes a wife

for his scarecrow