Tomorrow, I will be will be trekking around the gorgeous Boondall Wetlands with ten other haiku enthusiasts on our autumn ginko.
If the weather stays like it is today – early 20′s and endless blue – it is going to be beautiful to be near the water in a haiku state of mind. Here’s one that I have been rolling around in my head this morning…
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autumn light
promise we’ll see
each other again
Filed under poetry
zen garden
a wasp flies out
of Buddha’s nose
Filed under poetry
no longer blue
in this blossom-loosening wind
autumn sky
Filed under poetry
I was excited to receive an email this morning from poet, translator and editor, Chen-ou Liu informing me that my haiku spring dawn had been published on NeverEnding Story in both English and Chinese.
Having work in translation is something that excites me greatly.
I hope you all click on over to NeverEnding Story as Chen-ou Liu has gathered together a fine collection of poems.
In parting, I offer this new haiku:
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late autumn sun
round is the shadow
of my boy’s head
Filed under poetry
autumn moon
a fistful of dandelion
fluff
Filed under poetry
between statues
the coldness of scar-
tissue
Filed under poetry
Inspired by yesterday’s ‘poets on beauty’ post, I wrote this… may you all know beauty, wherever you are this Friday evening.
summer passing
his warm hand holds
all of me
Filed under poetry
pale moon
one eye sucked
from the fish head
Filed under poetry
To follow on from yesterday, here’s a selection of my own haiku from the Karawatha State Forest ginko… the place, the poets and their poems continue to resonate…
[photographs by Cindy Keong]
nature trail
the song of crickets
becomes a stream
*
summer sky
seen through eucalypts
seen through
ants
on the fallen eucalypt
all moving
*
leaves
among them
the lizard’s tail
Filed under poetry
river’s edge
my stone
settles the score
Filed under poetry
