Daily Haiku: Jan. 24, 2021

something

out of antiquity

the pine beetle’s pose

 

 

 

by Marje Dyck (Canada)

Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, October 2020

 

Tanka by Paul Beech

TANKA

floral smock chalky

she holds the new boy close

wipes his terrified tears

and lets him sit

with the girls

by Paul Beech (Wales)

Poetry in the Plague Year, 2020

Daily Haiku: Jan. 23, 2021

after a rain

smell of clover

… benign

 

by Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff  (USA)

Modern Haiku, 51:3, 2020

Daily Haiku: Jan. 22, 2021

Below are three haiku from Australian Poet Gregory Piko’s new book, “breaking my journey.”

empty ocean

the shearwater’s belly

catches the sun

 

her cotton skirt

falls softly to the ground

steady rain

 

ragged edge

the cabbage moth’s wing

and the cabbage

 

This book was published by Red Moon Press last month.

www.redmoonpress.com

 

 

 

Daily Haiku: Jan. 21, 2021

creak of a gate

an old turtle retires

into itself

 

 

 

 

by Nikolay Grankin (Russia)

Frogpond, Vol. 42:2, Spring/Summer 2019

 

Daily Haiku: Jan. 20, 2021

a war veteran

with eyes closed

leaf viewing

 

by Elmedin Kadric (Sweden)

The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XXII, No. 2, June 2020

Daily Haiku: Jan. 19, 2021

wooden pier

my reflection on the water

double loneliness

 

 

 

by Lidia Rozmus  (USA/Poland)

In Silence, International Art/Poetry Exhibit

 

Haiku Sequence by Renée Owen

 

So Much of Life                                 

making art

at your bedside

the vibrancy of blue

 

 

faint footprints

all I love

in shadows

 

each breath

I hold for you

shavasana

 

your old quilt—

sleeping with the stars

between us

 

sweat bees

must I give up

everything

 

stream bubbles

so much of life

about choices

 

 Renée Owen (USA)

Frogpond, 35.1, 2012

Daily Haiku: Jan. 18, 2021

cottonwood seeds in the wind

first morning

of an empty nest

 

by Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff (USA)

Honorable Mention

2021 Haiku Calendar, Snapshot Press

Tanka by Mary Davila

Tanka

 

 

I blow dust

from an old polaroid

buried in the attic . . .

it seems like yesterday

dad told me to smile

 

 

by Mary Davila (USA)

red lights, 12:1, 2016

 

Daily Haiku: Jan. 17, 2021

new boy in town

throwing snowballs

at his own snowman

 

 

 

by David Gershator (USA)

The Heron’s Nest, #7, 2005

 

A Haiku Sequence by Mary Stevens

Toledo Steel

Sun side
of the arena
heated bull

within a whirling cape
the matador’s stance

Toledo steel—
he waves an ear
for the cheering crowd

workers rake sand
over the scent of blood

flamenco moon
the special at the inn
rabo de toro

 

by Mary Stevens (USA)

Presence, Issue 68, November  2020

Daily Haiku: Jan. 16, 2021

senryu

 

 

my favorite doll

still talks when I pull the string

summer garage sale

 

 

 

by Sari Grandstaff (USA)

En Grand Prix Haiku Contest, 2012

 

Free Verse by Mary Beth Bretzlauf

Waxing Lemons 

 

Memories of summertime 

Bring back those innocent days 

When lemonade could get us money 

When Grandma made the sweet tart treat 

fussing about in the kitchen

Apron on in this heat 

Cardboard table set up  

Front lawn our domain 

Sun the color of our fruit and

Watered down  

Melting ice cubes 

Forgotten on the quiet street 

By us –the lure of pogo sticks, 

Hopscotch too much to pass up 

Watery lemonade refreshing from our fun – 

No money made that day 

 

 

 

by Mary Beth Bretzlauf (USA)

Coffee, Tea and Other Beverages, 2018

Daily Haiku: Jan. 15, 2021

dawn snow

a white lie

to stay in it

 

 

 

by David Kāwika Eyre (USA), Author

The Nothing That Is

A Haiku Sequence by Michael Ketchek

Four Seasons of Sun

spring sun

for her he plucks flowers

from a neighbor’s garden

 

summer sun

his pregnant wife’s lips

dripping tomato

 

autumn sun

trying to brush the burrs

from her long brown hair

 

winter sun

the diamond he bought her

after his affair

 

by Michael Ketchek (USA)

Modern Haiku, 43.1, 2012

Daily Haiku: Jan. 14, 2021

stop sign–

one last look

at my father’s house

 

 

 

by Yu Chang (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 31:3, 2008

 

Daily Haiku: Jan. 13, 2021

senryu

snowy sidewalk–

footprints in a U-turn

at the army recruiters

 

by John J. Dunphy (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 31:3, 2008

 

A Haiku Sequence by Donna Bauerly

leave taking

watching the lights go out 

one red maple         after 

another      

 

winter maples 

the red-haired girl 

  

knee deep in autumn 

remembering 

green

 

by Donna Bauerly (USA)

Daily Haiku: Jan. 12, 2021

early snow

turning off the alarm

i watch silence

 

 

 

by Rick Daddario (USA)

https://19planets.wordpress.com/

A Haiku Sequence by Frank Higgins

Death of a Friend     

 

chemo

her face lost

in the pillow

 

a final gift

smell of the rain

in the wet clogs

 

 empty bed

 fluffing the indent

 from the pillow

                        

 

                                                                       

by Frank Higgins  (USA)              

Frogpond, XX:1, Spring 1996

Daily Haiku: Jan. 11, 2021

one ant drags another

I block a friend

on Facebook

 

 

by Mary Stevens (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 38:3, 2015

 

A Haiku Sequence by Ruth Holzer

One April

 

deathwatch days  a cloud of gnats

 

April breeze  grieving for the living

 

Thursday’s child  she doesn’t know it’s there anymore 

 

so often crying wolf now the wolf crying for you

 

no more lovable when terminal

 

nursing home wing  they call it  Transition Care

 

at journey’s end another journey

 

disappearing into the light spring rain mother

 

                

by Ruth Holzer (USA)

LYNX, October 2013

Tanka by Dorna Hainds

Tanka

 

tonight

i count the stars

maple leaves falling

one by one

without a sound

 

 

 

by Dorna Hainds (USA)

 

Daily Haiku: Jan. 10, 2021

Sunday silence
raindrop in sun
on a leaf

 

by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA)

                                                       https://ellengraceolinger.wordpress.com/

A Haiku Sequence by Doris Lynch

ON THE CUSP OF THE SOLSTICE
 
how quiet
the quiet before
winter dawn

first snowfall
the neighborhood runner
walks in tights

six crows
silent in a snowy field—
noon whistle

nickel-sized snowflakes
old man at the bus stop
wearing one glove

past midnight
can’t stay indoors
when the barred owl calls

not so close
small skunk

 

by Doris Lynch (USA)

LYNX: a Journal for Linking Poets, XXVII:1, February, 2012

 

Daily Haiku: Jan. 9, 2021

senryu

stifling a yawn
in the company
of myself

 

by Tom Clausen (USA)

www.tomclausen.wordpress.com,

Jan. 29, 2014

A Haiku Sequence by Roberta Beary

Baby​ ​Grand:​ ​a​ ​Haiku​ ​Sequence

 

 

under​ ​the​ ​piano

i​ ​hide​ ​from​ ​father 

i​ ​am​ ​5

 

pushing​ ​me​ ​off

the​ ​piano​ ​bench 

teenage​ ​breakdown

 

leaving​ ​home​ ​…

the​ ​piano​ ​also​ ​hides

deep​ ​cut​ ​scars

 

father’s​ ​death​ ​day

centered​ ​on​ ​the​ ​piano 

his​ ​chilly​ ​smile

 

inheritance​ ​— 

opening​ ​the​ ​piano 

childhood​ ​secrets fly​ ​away

 

 

 

by Roberta Beary (Ireland/USA)

Failed Haiku, Vol. 2, Issue 22, Oct. 2017

 

 

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Daily Haiku: Jan. 8, 2021

autumn . . .

colours

of the wind

 

 

by Nisha Raviprasad (India)

 

A Haiku Sequence by Robert Witmer

waving goodbye

 

tiny hands reach

for mother’s breast

full moon

 

 

pollywogs in clear water

my first child

in my father’s arms

 

 

starting college

only one of us

waving goodbye

 

 

spring cleaning

nowhere to put

the kids’ childhood

 

 

calloused hands

the carpenter smooths

his daughter’s gown

 

 

a perfect spiral

from my aging father

autumn afternoon

 

 

her widowed voice

breaking

the news

 

 

wind

through holes

in my father sweater

 

 

my late mother’s birthday

cherry blossoms

choke the stream

 

 

old marble

streaked with rain

my father at mother’s grave

 

by Robert Witmer (Japan), Author

Finding a Way, Cyberwit, 2016

Daily Haiku: Jan. 7, 2021

sweltering noon

the swing sways 

empty

 

 

by Bisshie (Switzerland)

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, 3:2, Spring/Summer 2020 

A Haiku Sequence by Peggy Bilbro

Above the Clouds

I check each night

for my childhood

Milky Way 

 

even this rock

with electrons in constant motion

another galaxy

 

each alone

observing social distance

solar system

 

words between

the dark matter

a poem forms

 

loose floating

nuts and bolts

orbit my mind

by Peggy Hale Bilbro (USA)

Hedgerow, 132, November 2020

Daily Haiku: Jan. 6, 2021

a crow calls
through the mist
autumn chill 

 

by Susan Farner (USA)

Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, Vol. 4:1, Autumn-Winter 2020-2021

 

A Haiku Sequence by Kathe Palka

Hershey Gardens

mid-October—

among the roses

a few slow bees

 

garden lovers

on nearly every bench

a dedication

 

in the arboretum

hiding among old pines

a young sequoia

 

chasing each other

in the children’s garden

chipmunks

 

overflowing

from a claw-foot tub planter

scent of Alyssum

 

air so sweet

you can taste it

Hershey Gardens

by Kathe Palka (USA)

LYNX, Feb. 2013

Daily Haiku: Jan. 5, 2021

senryu

 

 

 

retirement day–

I move spam

to my inbox

 

 

by Lew Watts (USA)

Modern Haiku, 45:2, 2014

A Haiku Sequence by Marilyn Fleming

The Biting Earth

newborn in a sling

her back stooped

gathering twigs

 

market baskets—

the art of teeth-splitting 

elephant grass

 

hands outstretched

in joyful patterns

catching guinea hens

 

banyan saplings

bitten and stripped

barkcloth

 

 by Marilyn Fleming (USA)

Presence #62, 2018

 

Daily Haiku: Jan. 4, 2021

church bells

the cow bells

fade into

 

 

by Bisshie (Switzerland)

Modern Haiku, Summer 2020

Free Verse by Michael Escoubas

Morning Chores in January

by Michael Escoubas

Dad would roust out

my brothers and me

on icy mornings

when the chill

in our upstairs rooms

wrapped us in a shawl

of ice-crystals.

Chores waited:

Holsteins needed emptying

their udders heavy with milk.

Lambs needed bottle-feeding

(the weak ones).

Cows needed hay

pitched down from the mow.

Acrid straw from horse-stalls

needed mucking

into the compost pile.

Needs, needs, needs—

I hated it then, at age ten.

Why then, do I hear myself

saying to my own boys,

as if channeling my Dad,

“You will thank me later.”

 

Michael Escoubas is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Monet in Poetry and Paint, Steve Henderson in Poetry and Paint, and Little Book of Devotions: Poems that Connect Nature, God and Man.

Daily Haiku: Jan. 3, 2020

from my window

the maple tree blinks light . . .

all seems possible

 

 

 

by Mary Jo Balistreri (USA)

 

Special to The Daily Haiku: Jan. 2, 2021

The Nothing That Is  by David Kāwika Eyre

A masterful haiku collection of Eyre’s aesthetic experience with fresh images that capture the beauty and mysteries of nature, people, and creatures. The poet demonstrates astute observation and insights with each deeply-felt haiku. This book merits coming back to again and again to fully appreciate its revelations and wisdom, along with the sensitive and stunning artwork complementing the poetry.

–Charlotte Digregorio, Author of Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All

 

Samples from Eyre’s collection:

 

on curve

of moon

morning

 

–bones journal, Issue 20, 2020

 

low tide–

breathing moonlight

in and out

 

–Frogpond, Spring-Summer Issue, 2019

 

winter dawn

a wave folds

and whitens

 

–The Heron’s Nest, December 2020

 

For more information about this collection, published by Red Moon Press, click this link:

https://www.redmoonpress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=32&products_id=347

 

 

 

 

Daily Haiku: Jan. 2, 2021

dawn

mother’s kiss on my forehead

remembered

 

 

 

Paula Moore (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 35, No. 2, Spring/Summer 2012

 

Haiku Sequence by Mac Greene

to life

since the diagnosis

tears well up

whenever I  say goodbye

 

I cry softly

and the rain too

 

I dream a grave

yellow        yellow

silver on the wind

dandelions

 

birds sing

I try to get used

to dying

 

what to do with  my ashes?

why do I care?

by Mac Greene (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 42:2. Spring/Summer 2019

 

Daily Haiku: Jan. 1, 2021

mind the gap

green gloves grip

what’s left

 

 

 

 

by Roberta Beary  (Ireland/USA)

noon: journal of the short poem

Issues 17 & 18, December 2020

 

Tanka by an’ya

Tanka

 

 

 

nowadays

i measure my life

in sunsets

that lacquer the sea

with transient light

 

 

by an’ya (USA)

Daily Haiku: Dec. 31, 2020

his hand

moves the hair back from her face . . .

mistral

 

la sua mano le sposta indietro i capelli… maestrale

 

by Lucia Cardillo (Italy)

Blithe Spirit, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2020

Daily Haiku: Dec. 30, 2020

senryu

 

 

wondering what he sees in her tulips

 

 

 

by Anna Maris (Sweden)

FemkuMag 7, 2019

 

Daily Haiku: Dec. 29, 2020

gold maple leaf

dances

on the way

down

 

 

 

by Stephen M. Joseph (USA)

 

Daily Haiku: Dec. 28, 2020

breath of sunrise

aroma of spring rain

yet to fall

 

 

 

by Barbara Tate (USA)

A Splash of Water

Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2015

Daily Haiku: Dec. 27, 2020

Chopin’s waltz

floating in the air

cherry petals

 

 

 

by Marta Chocilowska (Poland)

World Haiku Review

Autumn 2020 Honourable Mention

Daily Haiku: Dec. 26, 2020

once again

you visit my dream–

pink camellias

 

 

 

by Paula Moore (USA)