Daily Haiku: Sept. 23, 2021

senryu

 

 

 

my hand still firm

in the hand

gone slack

 

 

 

by Mike Dillon (USA)

Modern Haiku, Vol. 43.2, Summer 2012

Tanka by Lisbeth Ho (Indonesia)

 

summer dusk

crickets start to sing

calling

the fireflies to light up

the moonless night

by Lisbeth Ho

Cold Moon Journal, July 29, 2021

Daily Haiku: Sept. 22, 2021

no snow–

the mountains white

with moonlight

 

 

by Jeannie Martin (USA)

bottle rockets, #24,  2011

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 21, 2021

running barefoot

through tall grasses–

deciding on blonde

 

 

 

by Marilyn Appl Walker (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. XXVI, No. 2, 2003

Daily Haiku: Sept. 20, 2021

senryu

 

pink slip

the supervisor pulls down

the office blinds

 

by Anthony J. Pupello (USA)

Frogpond, XIX:3, December 1996

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 19, 2021

the way the cats

take their turn at the window

summer moon

 

 

 

by Marjorie Buettner (USA)

bottle rockets, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2004

Daily Haiku: Sept. 18, 2021

low tide

the tinkle

of shellsand

 

 

by Susan Delphine Delaney (USA)

bottle rockets, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2004

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 17, 2021

walking the ocean’s breath block by block

 

 

 

by Susan Diridoni (USA)

Modern Haiku, Vol. 43.2, Summer 2012

 

Free Verse by Radhamani Sarma

 

 

All Silenced to Why

by Radhamani Sarma (India)

Shot and ghastly sound
Unusual and scary,
Undoing all good in a second.
The jubilant music hall till now
Vibrant with Melody is
Turned into Malady of frozen blood.
Dove has flown now
to far-flung peace.
What you see now
Is a void of cacophony;
Your Sudden Silenced voice
holding your breath and
pulse. Gunmen induced not
pellets but hatred and cruelty
in their instruments, their aids,
to raid their surroundings.
You are a mute witness
To this volley of bloodshed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 16, 2021

Sunday afternoon
I know the time
by the light

 

by Ellen Grace Olinger

tinywords, Issue 21.1, June 18, 2021

 

Tanka by Debbie Strange

snow whirls

outside the henhouse . . .

father cups

my hands around

a warm brown egg

 

 

 

by Debbie Strange (Canada)

3rd Place

Fleeting Words Tanka Competition, 2018

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 15, 2021

forgotten grave

only the small bones

of leaves remain

 

 

by Debbie Strange (Canada)

Commended Haiku

Polish International Haiku Competition, 2020

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 14, 2021

 

senryu

 

 

funeral mass

my sister’s hat

blocks the view

 

 

by Roberta Beary (Ireland/USA)

Frogpond, Vol. XXXI, No. 1, 2008

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 13, 2021

summer’s end

cicada buzz caught

in the black cat’s mouth

 

by Dave Russo (USA)

Modern Haiku, Vol. XXIX, No. 3, Fall, 1998

Daily Haiku: Sept. 12, 2021

faint stars–

the flapping of canvas

on the grape truck

 

 

 

by Yu Chang (USA)

Modern Haiku, Vol. XXIX, No. 3, Fall, 1998

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 11, 2021

senryu

 

memorial service

for a moment I wonder

what to wear

 

 

by Harriot West (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. XXX, No. 1, 2007

Daily Haiku: Sept. 10, 2021

my friends’ farm
I view the Milky Way from
their cow pasture

 

 

by John J. Dunphy (USA)

Haikuuniverse, May 3, 2021

Daily Haiku: Sept. 9, 2021

dying fire . . .
I sit quietly
with my ghosts

 

 

 

by Ce Rosenow (USA)

Mann Library’s Daily Haiku, Sept. 29, 2011

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 8, 2021

senryu

old friends talk

each holding

car keys

 

by Tom Clausen (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. XXX, No. 1, 2007

Daily Haiku: Sept. 7, 2021

the number of pages

until she sleeps

spring rain

 

 

 

by Sharon Pretti (USA)

Mariposa, 24, Spring/Summer 2016

3 Tanka by an’ya

3 Tanka by an’ya

 

old memories

like tangled fish hooks

impossible

to pick up only one

without all the others

 

First Place

2008 Tanka Society of America International Contest

 

 

 

that final spring

we were together flying

our kite — until

you let loose the string

and heart from soul divided

 

Ash Moon Anthology, 2008

 

 

cold cemetery
the long sleeves of your old coat
warm my fingertips
even from beyond this grave
you manage to comfort me

 

 Overall Winner

ahapoetry’s Tanka Splendor Contest, 2000

Daily Haiku: Sept. 6, 2021

morning commute
the horizon bright
with headlights

 

by Dave Read (Canada)

A Hundred Gourds, March 2016

Poem by Sally Hewitt

The Temple Chimes

by Sally Hewitt

 

The temple chimes ring whenever you’re imbued

with life in my thoughts, not the other kind.

I turn my face to search the front porch

looking this way and that, hoping to catch

a glimpse of your essence, the sky in its blue.

 

In windless doldrums, the chimes rarely sing,

so my countenance puzzles over this humming:

a sound so pure, as if nature wears all white

like snow falling softly on a wintry scene

or a lake so placid it reflects back the light.

 

A gift from neighbors who travel afar —

the chimes, from India, a temple there,

a memento with a monk-like ringing tone

calls universal spirits forward to our porch.

I listen for only you when I stand alone.

 

A hummingbird hovers near the ringing bells

and my life flashes backwards, reaching for our time

when laughter out-rang any clanging chimes

and beauty outlined every nursery rhyme

and you and I lived our lives as if there were

 

No tomorrow, no end of time.

 

 

Published in The Rockford Review, Summer-Fall 2016

Daily Haiku: Sept. 5, 2021

sensing

what’s next for me

hazy stars

 

 

 

by Gregory Longenecker (USA)

Mariposa, 34, Spring/Summer 2016

Daily Haiku: Sept. 4, 2021

senryu

 

cough syrup

the aftertaste

of our argument

 

 

 

by Deborah P Kolodji (USA)

Mariposa, 24, Spring/Summer 2011

 

Read This New Haibun Collection by Ruth Holzer (USA)

If you like haibun, don’t miss this new book, Home and Away, by Ruth Holzer (USA). Many of you know Ruth as a longtime haikuist, and have read her accessible and thoughtful work on this blog.

Below, is a haibun from her book:

Knuckles

We played a game like gin rummy. The loser had to pick a card and have his

knuckles struck by the winner for that number of times. Soft blows with the

flat of the deck for a black card, hard blows with the side of the deck for a red.

Sometimes we’d use a penknife instead. If you flinched, you’d get five more

hard ones.

ear on the rail

the thrill

of a coming train

Home and Away is Holzer’s first haibun collection, and it reflects on a lifelong journey through changing times and places. It’s available from the publisher at dancinggirlpress.com. (38 pages, $7).

Daily Haiku: Sept. 3, 2021

heavy rains

expose sugar maple roots

family gathering

 

 

 

by Peg McAulay Byrd (USA)

Mariposa, 24, Spring/Summer 2011

 

Daily Haiku: Sept. 2, 2021

senryu

 

 

breakfast alone

two eggs

on an empty plate

 

 

by LeRoy Gorman (Canada)

Modern Haiku, Vol. XXX, No. 3, Fall, 1999

Sonnet by Jeri Frederickson

from: Overripe Apples  (a series of sonnets)*

by Jeri Frederickson 

I am opened like an old cellar door. 

Careful to follow every instruction, 

I slice the apples. The wooden spoon stirs 

up sweet juice, and the fluting starts. I am 

spiced steam. I was clean, good, responsible, 

evangelical. I chop pecans, peer 

quietly under the sink. A bit bent, 

the paint stirrer matches the wooden spoon. 

Tools of parenting I outgrew. The pie 

sizzles even as I tip the long knife 

over and let it drip warm down my lips. 

Mom outgrew the gluten, apple and pear  

 

but still takes just a smell, yum as she leans 

with a creaky spine and secrets below. 

 

 

 * Published in:

You Are Not Lost  

by Jeri Frederickson, Finishing Line Press, 2021 (Soon to be Released)

Daily Haiku: Sept. 1, 2021

senryu

outside

smoking

the man of the house

by Tom Clausen (USA)

Modern Haiku, Vol. XXX, No. 3, Fall, 1999

Daily Haiku: Aug. 31, 2021

deadheading the zinnias

the summer gone

without a sandcastle

 

by Susan Antolin (USA), Author

Artichoke Season: haiku and tanka by Susan Antolin

Daily Haiku: Aug. 30, 2021

senryu

 

 

old brass elevator

bolt holes where the operator’s

stool once was

 

 

by Jeffrey Winke (USA)

Modern Haiku, Vol. XXXII, No. 3, Fall, 2001

Register Now: Virtual Poetry Critique Roundtable!

Have you written a poem for publication, a family scrapbook, a greeting card to a friend, or for a special occasion? If you would like input from fellow writers on how to improve it, attend this helpful free critique led by Charlotte Digregorio, author of Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing and other books. This workshop is sponsored by the Winnetka (IL) Public Library through Zoom, and is open to all from everywhere, Sunday, Nov. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. (Chicago–USA Time).

To register, click https://winnetkalibrary.libcal.com/event/7895677

See you there!

Charlotte

Daily Haiku: Aug. 29, 2021

senryu

 

now and then
when my neighbor is away
blackberries

 

 

by Kirsty Karkow (USA)

Mann Library’s Daily Haiku, July 6, 2009

Daily Haiku: Aug. 28, 2021

senryu

 

grandma’s crazy quilt—
an old needle
rusted in place

 

by Charlie Rossiter (USA)

Modern Haiku, Vol. 42:3, Autumn 2011

Daily Haiku: Aug. 27, 2021

senryu

 

 

as she fills my tank

we chat

about endangered species

 

 

by Marco Fraticelli (Canada)

Haiku Canada Newsletter, Fall 1990

 

Daily Haiku: Aug. 26, 2021

abandoned grain elevator

storing

only the past

 

 

 

by Claudia Coutu Radmore (Canada)

a far galaxy

Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, 2018

Daily Haiku: Aug. 25, 2021

senryu

 

 

homesick–

my shadow one step

ahead of me

 

 

 

by Marianne Paul  (Canada)

 

a far galaxy

 

Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, 2018

Daily Haiku: Aug. 24, 2021

Raindrops

on the way to surgery–

the sunroof open

 

 

by Dan Schwerin (USA)

Frogpond, XXIII:3, 2000

 

Daily Haiku: Aug. 23, 2021

senryu

 

uncluttering

I shred

my parents’ wills

 

by Maxianne Berger (Canada)

a far galaxy

Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, 2018

 

Daily Haiku: Aug. 22, 2021

senryu

 

photo exhibit

faces of the homeless

in black and white

 

by Tom Painting (USA)

Frogpond, XXIII:3, 2000

Daily Haiku: Aug. 21, 2021

senryu

 

 

finding him homeless–

the terror in my father’s face

lifted to mine

 

 

by Michael McClintock (USA)

Frogpond, XXIII:3, 2000

 

Daily Haiku: Aug. 20, 2021

Flicker

sending spring

in Morse code

 

 

by Donna Bauerly (USA)

 

Editors’ Note: Pay attention to the double meaning.

Daily Haiku: Aug. 19, 2021

senryu

 

 

 

what i mean to say going along with autocomplete

 

 

 

by Mary Stevens (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 44:2, Spring/Summer 2021

Daily Haiku: Aug. 18, 2021

the dead oak

to the woodpecker

finding its voice

 

 

 

by Peter Newton (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 44:2, Spring/Summer 2021

 

Daily Haiku: Aug. 17, 2021

not long

for this world

clouds

 

 

by Tom Clausen (USA)
Frogpond, Vol. 44:2, Spring/Summer 2021

Daily Haiku: Aug. 16, 2021

Monday fog

Rhododendrons 

pink with rain

 

by Erin Castaldi (USA)

Blithe Spirit, Issue 30.2, Spring 2020

Daily Haiku: Aug. 15, 2021

autumn sunshine

walking through

the maple leaves

 

by Dorna Hainds  (USA)

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

 

Don’t Miss Out! Improve Your Haiku and Senryu

Charlotte Digregorio will host a “Writing Haiku and Senryu” workshop. Beginning haiku poets will learn all about the art of haiku and senryu and getting them published in a free Zoom workshop, open to all, through the Winnetka (IL) Public Library, Sunday, Sept. 19, 2 to 3:30 p.m. (Chicago–USA Time). Participants will have the opportunity to read a newly-crafted poem during the event (optional.)

83 seats are taken! Only 17 seats left as of today!

Charlotte is the author of Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All. She is the editor of The Daily Haiku, http://www.charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com, with poets from 61 countries participating. 

You may register for the September workshop at:

https://winnetkalibrary.libcal.com/calendar/events/?cid=3782&t=d&d=2021-09-19&cal=3782&inc=0

Read Latest Review below: Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All by Charlotte Digregorio

 

Charlotte Digregorio’s “Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All” delighted my senses. This is a must-read book! It opened my eyes and mind to a different world– the clear, concise, and poignant world of haiku and senryu. For me, the examples of each poetic form are like catnip … I just can’t read enough of them. After reading Digregorio’s book, I wanted to find more haiku and senryu to read and also read again the poems she published.

by Sally Hewitt (USA)

Book available through Amazon, ebay, or through me, Charlotte Digregorio (contact: c-books@hotmail.com)

 

 

 

 

Daily Haiku: Aug. 14, 2021

 

playing the bride
grandmother’s necklace
around my neck

 

giocando alla sposa
la collana della nonna
intorno al mio collo

 

by Eufemia Griffo (Italy)

brass bell: a haiku journal, July 2021