Category Archives: Philomene Kocher

Daily Double Haiku: Jan. 23, 2023

Posted on January 22, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

bitter cold one step ahead of me my condensing breath by Adelaide B. Shaw (USA)   snowflake shadows disappear into snow by Philomene Kocher (Canada), Co-Author The Second Time, King’s Road Press, 2004

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Selected Tanka

Posted on June 4, 2022 by Charlotte Digregorio

rain washes the dust from the bus window and I can see more clearly what tears do by Philomene Kocher (Canada) Twenty Years of Tanka Splendor, AHA Books, 2009 cranes gather in a cloud-swept sky if only I too could escape by Marilyn … Continue reading →

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Haiku Special: May 8, 2021–New Book by Philomene Kocher and Marco Fraticelli!

Posted on May 7, 2021 by Charlotte Digregorio

Have you ever heard of “septenga”? A septenga is haiku– a sequence of seven links, starting with a three-liner, followed by two, and ending with a three-liner. (3-2-3-2-3-2-3). The poem contains a theme that unites the seven links, and it … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 12, 2018

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Charlotte Digregorio

rose hips and roses and buds on the same bush August evening by Philomene Kocher (Canada) Frogpond, XXIV:1, 2001  

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Daily Haiku: June 25, 2018

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Charlotte Digregorio

geese returning a child’s mitten tucked into the chain-link fence by Philomene Kocher  (Canada) a far galaxy: Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology, 2018  

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