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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.

Season's Greetings
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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!

 

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“Presence in Absence” is now online!

I am very pleased to let you know that the afterword to my book, written by poet and writer Michael Dylan Welch, titled “Presence in Absence,” is now online on Graceguts: Something authentic and delirious. It is a wonderful essay on haiku and the experience of appreciating and sharing the haiku moment by both writer and reader. I am honored that Michael contributed this  generous essay to my book “In the Garden of Absence.” Michael’s essay “Presence in Absence” can be read by clicking here

And while you are visiting Michael’s site, Graceguts, take a look around this amazing resource: essays, books, book reviews, fun, haiku, haibun, photo-haiga, poetry, thinking, photography, micropoetry — an Aladdin’s cave!

 

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“With Cherries on Top”

A new downloadable book was made available on the 16th of November 2012 by Michael Dylan Welch, writer and poet, and founder of the NaHaiWriMo site and FB community. Titled “With Cherries on Top: 31 Flavors of NaHaiWriMo,” it is a sparkler of haiku, senryu, and micropoetry. It is excellently designed and presented, with fantastic photography, and also well-proof-read by Christina Nguyen. A haiku fireworks to enjoy on many a winter evening.

Image Credit: Michael Dylan Welch

This is how Michael Dylan Welch introduces it:

“In August of 2012, the NaHaiWriMo page on Facebook featured daily writing prompts from 31 different prompters. Each prompter selected at least five of his or her favourite poems written in response. Michael Dylan Welch selected from these poems to produce the online PDF book, With Cherries on Top: 31 Flavors from NaHaiWriMo”

This book is available for free download, from www.nahaiwrimo.com

I am honored to have a few haiku of my own included, and to have been one of the 31 prompters of the month!