Daily Haiku: April 22, 2019

senryu

hooked to catheter and headset

the old musician’s playing

an invisible guitar

 

by Margaret Peacock (USA)

Frogpond, XX:1, May 1997

Daily Haiku: April 21, 2019

one deep breath

for a moment the pine

is part of me

 

by Harriot West (USA)

Editor’s Choice, #3

The Heron’s Nest, X:4, December 2008

 

Daily Haiku: April 20, 2019

wild iris

a familiar song

in its throat

 

 

by Debbie Strange (Canada)

Readers’ Choice Awards, 2018

Shamrock Haiku Journal

 

Daily Haiku: April 19, 2019

haunted graveyard

a summer breeze

unzips the grass

 

by Robert Witmer (Japan)

Presence, Issue 61, Summer 2018

Daily Haiku: April 18, 2019

small town business

a meeting

of roadside crows

 

by Rich Schilling (USA)

bottle rockets, #40, 2019

 

Daily Haiku: April 17, 2019

windy

I warm my hands with a pack

of roasted chestnuts

 

 

by Vessislava Savova (Bulgaria)

World Haiku Review, March 2018

 

Daily Haiku: April 16, 2019

quiet rain
my signature
in his guestbook

 

by Barbara Tate  (USA)

Modern Haiku, 49.1, 2018

Daily Haiku: April 15, 2019

senryu

dermatologist’s office

on the bare white walls

a diagram of acne

 

by Robert Epstein  (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. XXII, No. 1, 1999

Daily Haiku: April 14, 2019

rusted bucket

cherry blossoms patch

every hole

by Debbie Strange (Canada)

2nd Place

Second International Ohanami Haiku Contest, 2016

 

Daily Haiku: April 13, 2019

blistering heat

black bear tracks

in the asphalt

 

 

by Lew Watts (USA)

The Heron’s Nest, Vol. 19, No. 4, December 2017

Daily Haiku: April 12, 2019

spring snow melts . . .
far from the sea
a marmot sings

 

by Robert Witmer  (Japan)

Frameless Sky, No. 8, June 2018

Daily Haiku: April 11, 2019

top stories
disappearing
in city fog

by Rich Schilling (USA)

Mayfly, Issue 66, 2019

Daily Haiku: April 10, 2019

Wisconsin spring
sandhill cranes
in a field of snow

 

by Ellen Grace Olinger (USA)

This World: Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2013

 

 

Daily Haiku: April 9, 2019

faded pink
of summer
plastic flamingo

by Lori Becherer (USA)

bottle rockets,  #37, 2017

Daily Haiku: April 8, 2019

Yellowstone—

in spring snow a bison bull

steams

 

Lew Watts  (USA)

A Hundred Gourds, Vol. 4:2, March 2015

Daily Haiku: April 7, 2019

rapid transit

the coming and going

of magnolias

by Debbie Strange (Canada)

Judges’ Favorites

Golden Triangle Haiku Contest, 2018

 

Daily Haiku: April 6, 2019

kjmunro, a regular contributor to The Daily Haiku, has a haiku collection that has just been published by Red Moon Press. It is called “contractions.”

 

 

 

 

Below are two of her poems:

 

 

postcard from Niagara

the years

fall away

white hair

almost invisible

woman

by kjmunro (Canada)

http://www.redmoonpress.com/

 

 

 

 

Letting Go of Winter

Winter is still with some of us, and it was a particularly brutal one. The memories linger. Below is the last winter poem we will run until next December:

Our canine engine appears

erupting from a kennel in the wilderness

Sherman, Mitzie, Arty Suzie, Roger and Lola

harnesses strain

joyful yipping yelping

I am kissed by wet noses

shout my commands

Mush Let’s Go!

Come Gee!

Come Haw!

thrust into the frosty frigid air

hurled forward

their white misted breath

ears back, tongues hang

stiff iced whiskers

crusted snow crunches beneath us

winds crack frozen branches above us

we are propelled, we speed

trough trails of balsam, fir, spruce, pine and poplar

the heavily blanketed boreal forest surrounds us

whoooooosh…….. 30 miles to go

we take our short respite on beds of fresh straw

before continuing on our journey

to a far away mushers village

having a dog gone great time

celebrating the long Alaskan winter

by RM Yager

Reprinted from

Avocet: A Journal of Nature Poetry, Winter 2019

 

Daily Haiku: April 5, 2019

stroll through the carnival

my shadow

on stilts

 

by Stanford M. Forrester (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2008

Daily Haiku: April 4, 2019

flower illiterate

I wander the garden

wordless

 

by David G. Lanoue (USA)

Walking the Same Path

Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2004

Daily Haiku: April 3, 2019

senryu

spring cleaning

a new ribbon

for the old letters

 

by Yu Chang (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. XXI, No. 1, 1999

Daily Haiku: April 2, 2019

all night long

the poem and its ache . . .

north star

 

by Margaret Peacock (USA)

Frogpond, XX:1, May 1997

 

Daily Haiku: April 1, 2019

autumn leaves

turning my windowpane

to stained glass

by Ce Rosenow (USA)

Frogpond, XX:1, May 1997

Your Responses Published on Why Haiku and Senryu Matter

This was what I asked of readers a few days ago:

Readers and Followers:

Why do haiku and senryu matter to you?

Tell us in just a few words or in just one sentence below. Then include your name and country. (Some people forgot this, so I edited their responses.)

I will compile the listing with your name/country, and post it on Sunday.

Thank you.

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

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They matter because they succinctly describe or capture something of importance in life.

Gregory Longenecker, USA

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These short poems heighten our powers of observation, challenging us to write and share the experience in the briefest of words.

Ingrid Baluchi, USA

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Supporting voices of people who create these wonderfully personal and pertinent poems.

Alan Summers, England (Call of the Page)

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Haiku and senyru keep me in touch with the immediate world around us all.

Rick Daddario, USA

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I love the brevity and conciseness of these forms
Maureen Sudlow, New Zealand

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I love the brevity of the form and how it illuminates the moments of my days.
Carol Raisfeld, USA

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Unlocking the magic of the moment through quiet contemplation.

Paul Beech, Wales

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A moment in time–a story in few words

Barbara Tate, USA

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Why wouldn’t they?

Michele, Italy

 

I don’t know how you think. That’s why I ask.

Charlotte

 

A great answer! And in an age of extremes, and not to mention the EU and U.K. poetry has never mattered more. But it is surprising, isn’t it, that it takes the great religious extremes (from various ones) and politics, and venal men in power, for people to ‘notice’ poetry again, as something that is grounded and could be trusted.

Poetry has again become a rock, but we poets, whether haiku writers or longer genres, have always known that, yet never taken it for granted.

Alan

 

Your answer is great, Alan. Perhaps Michele of Italy could have responded with your second sentence

 

Charlotte

 

I can assure you that Michele wasn’t being flippant.

It’s just straight to the core, when something matters as much as breathing, as haiku is to me, we sometimes can only say, why not?

Alan

I didn’t say Michele was being flippant, Alan. I was just looking for specificity. I don’t know that haiku matters as much to Michele as breathing does.

 

Charlotte

 

I wasn’t suggesting you thought he was, I just wanted to suggest he was choosing a different approach to the answer. Honest.

humblest regards,

Alan

 

I know Michele was choosing a different approach, but personally, I like specificity and it can be achieved in a few words or just a sentence. If that’s all he has to say, that’s okay. But maybe he can tell us “why” it matters to him. “Haiku and senryu matter because . . .” that was was the question.

 

Charlotte

 

It would be great to have a colon instead of a period/end stop and more to the statement, I agree.

C’mon Michele, tell us just a little more.

Alan

 

Well, we’ll see if Michele tunes in again.

Charlotte

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Haiku and senryu help me see the world in new ways and to pay deeper attention to it.

 

Doris Lynch (USA)

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Haiku’s strict form forces my runaway mind to focus, discard the daily obfuscation and see deeply.

 

Herb Pierson (USA)

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They are a way that I can express the ‘in a nutshell’ thoughts that I have when observing people and nature.

Claire Vogel Camargo (USA)

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Thank you all for taking the time to respond!!

 

 

 

Daily Haiku: March 31, 2019

grasshoppers everywhere

one jumps

into my scream

by Jo Balistreri (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 41, No. 2, 2018

Daily Haiku: March 30, 2019

senryu

uncorking a dinner for one

 

by Terry Ann Carter  (Canada)

Haiku and senryu matter because . . .

Readers and Followers:

Why do haiku and senryu matter to you?

Tell us in just a few words or in just one sentence below. Then include your name and country.

I will compile the listing with your name/country, and post it on Sunday.

Thank you.

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

 

 

Daily Haiku: March 29, 2019

half-risen moon:

the sculptor’s slim hands arise

from his shadow

 

by Lenard D. Moore (USA)

3^rd Honorable Mention

10th Annual Haiku Contest—(Season Word Category), 1986

Hawaii Education Association

Daily Haiku: March 28, 2019

wisps from a steam iron

coil through time

my young mum sings

 

by Paul Beech (Wales)

The Museum of Haiku Literature Award

Blithe Spirit, 28:4, November 2018

Daily Haiku: March 27, 2019

senryu

baggage claim

his and hers

the second time around

 

by Robert Witmer (Japan)

Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, February 2019

Daily Haiku: March 26, 2019

light of dawn

an unfinished dream

she left to me

by Chen-ou Liu (Canada/Taiwan)

Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, February 2019

Daily Haiku: March 25, 2019

senryu

kicking a pebble

down the sidewalk–

homework overdue

by Sari Grandstaff  (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. XXX, No. 1, 2007

Daily Haiku: March 24, 2019

senryu

honeymoon over my suntan peels

 

by Collin Barber  (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. XXX, No. 1, 2007

Daily Haiku: March 23, 2019

boyhood friends–

side by side in trenches

still together row by row

by Carol Raisfeld  (USA)

Simply Haiku, 6:3, 2008

Daily Haiku: March 22, 2019

after the war

what stays in your heart

deep trenches

by Christina Nguyen  (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 34:3, 2011

Daily Haiku: March 21, 2019

senryu

obedience school

I learn to give treats

on cue

 

by Mike Stinson (USA)

cattails, April 2018

Daily Haiku: March 20, 2019

where the house
once stood
only cherry blossoms

 

 

by Mary Kendall  (USA)

Kokako, #29, 2018

Daily Haiku: March 19, 2019

piano practice
leaves swirl
allegro con brio 

by Roberta Beary  (Ireland/USA)

The Heron’s Nest, Vol. XIV, No. 2,  June 2012

 

 

Daily Haiku: March 18, 2019

senryu

food truck
the sound of reggae
rounds the corner

by Susan Beth Furst  (USA)

Honorable Mention
Golden Haiku 2019

Daily Haiku: March 17, 2019

back road

at least a thousand acres

of clouds

 

by Tom Clausen (USA)

Dim Sum, Route 9 Haiku Group, 2015

Daily Haiku: March 16, 2019

from the hammock

birds fade into crickets

crickets fade into stars

 

by Ben Moeller-Gaa (USA), Author

Wishbones

Daily Haiku: March 15, 2019

weekday commute–

leather and chrome streaks

on the boulevard

by Mike Montreuil  (Canada), Author

The Neighbours Are Talking

Daily Haiku: March 14, 2019

coming late

to get a head start

Zen teacher

 

by Michael Fessler (Japan), Author

arrangements

Daily Haiku: March 13, 2019

rice grains–
my baby’s
first teeth

by Rosa Maria Di Salvatore (Italy)

The Manichi, October 2018

Daily Haiku: March 12, 2019

senryu

a fresh start

in a new town

the same girl

 

by Angela Terry  (USA)

Frogpond, Vol. 41:2, Spring/Summer 2018

Daily Haiku: March 11, 2019

senryu

really wrinkled

the map

of nude beaches

by LeRoy Gorman  (Canada)

Frogpond, Vol. 15:1, Spring-Summer 1992

Daily Haiku: March 10, 2019

new in town

the lingering stare

of a stray

by Chen-ou Liu  (Canada/Taiwan)

Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 13, No. 1,  2019

Daily Haiku: March 9, 2019

argument over

we pause

the sunset must have been beautiful

 

by Peter Newton (USA)

Modern Haiku, Vol. 33:2, 2002

Daily Haiku: March 8, 2019

morning calm

the pacing of pages

between us

 

by Ben Moeller-Gaa (USA), Author

Wishbones

Daily Haiku: March 7, 2019

senryu

 

betting window

a rosary nestled

in grandma’s purse

 

by Barbara Tate (USA)

Haiku Canada Review, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2019