Welcome to the Wild Plum – a haiku . · PDF file27/07/2015 · Welcome to the...
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Welcome to the Wild Plum – a haiku journal.I want to thank to our contributors and everyone who sent haiku. This time we recived more than 500 poems and it was pleasure to read them all. I am glad and proud of the variety of haiku in this issue.
Our poets are from: Australia, Canada, Croatia, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, United Kingdom andthe United States of America.
After reciving a large number of haiga we decided to present some of them in Haiga Corner.
Enjoy!
desert stonesslowly their shadowschange sidesSimon Hanson (Australia)
chestnut moonkids lost
in the crossfireHelen Buckingham (United Kingdom)
rusty leavesmy gardenfalling downQuendryth Young (Australia)
idleness –counting on my fingers
these snowflakesArchana Kapoor Nagpal (India)
my wordscaught in her eyesstarry night Chen-ou Liu (Canada)
one more traffic light –rain letting fall on the pavement
the infinitySteliana Cristina Voicu (Romania)
Old book storeanother pansypressed for timeAlexis Rotella (USA)
flat palm–so many cross-roads
to the destinationPravat Kumar Padhy (India)
early autumntomatoes on the plantstill blushingMyron Lysenko (Australia)
oak shadowson a tin roof
red-shafted flickerDeborah P Kolodji (USA)
office towerwaiting to be torn downwinter sunYukiko Yamada (Japan)
outgoing tidefootprints
that no longer fitJulie Warther (USA)
riverside caféreadingthe flood levelsDuncan Richardson (Australia)
tree fellingmore and more gaps
in my memoryMaria Tomczak (Poland)
clouds mountain wind folds my fingertipsKanavu Nila (India)
swimmingthrough the moon…
broken musicJo Balistreri (USA)
bamboo cutterswashing in green water –a scent of tuberoseSandra Simpson (New Zealand)
peppermint gum—beneath a pink sky
the fallen sunAnna Cates (USA)
pink ribbonfalling one by onemagnolia flowersJanina Ko odziejczyk (Italy)ł
Bright Angel Trailtethered mules lean together
into the mountainBruce H. Feingold (USA)
a ribbon in the hairhops in the opposite rhythmof a little girlNina Kova i (Croatia)č ć
his angerrose petals dropover the fence
Jade Pisani (Australia)
before the storm–a wind changesits shades Magdalena Banaszkiewicz (Poland)
tattered quiltin the winter chill
an old warmthShrikaanth Krishnamurthy (United Kingdom)
autumn morningthe sound of leaves softer thanyesterday . . .William Seltzer (USA)
summer stormthe brimming moonin the cattle trough
Mark Miller (Australia)
the deep greenof billiard clothnorthern lightsAlan S. Bridges (USA)
autumn night –even the moonis not with me
Maria Tirenescu (Romania)
snowflakes glitterin starshinethe warmth of your handAndrew Albritton (USA)
in shallow waterunable to reach the shore
waxing moonDavid J. Kelly (Ireland)
last ferrythe night sky sinks intothe bayDevin Harrison (Canada)
divorce papersour rowan tree still reddeep under the snow
Magda Sobieszek (Poland)
one more bookfor the jumble sale—joy of sexMarietta McGregor (Australia)
stack of dusty tireshis mind driftsto Binh Dinh
Bill Cooper (USA)
night tryston the woman’s hipsfull moonZuzanna Truchlewska (Poland)
horizon –my collection of gourds
on the windowsillLavana Kray (Romania)
jazz clubice fogged windowbebopsJeffrey Winke (USA)
waftingthrough the warm breeze
mangoes !Kanchan Chatterjee (India)
car floodlightssop upthe cold mistTyler Pruett (USA)
between yearswe are listening to
the snowfall silenceVasile Moldovan (Romania)
steep path –shelf fungus providesa hand holdRichard Stevenson (Canada)
Veterans Daya brother’s embraceabsorbs the tremor
Chad Lee Robinson (USA)
first summer campswoman on the platformcuddles a teddy bearMarta Chocilowska (Poland)
sultry afternoonone lark fills the sky
with songElaine Riddell (New Zealand)
Cherry blossomslight up her hair…scent of dawn Keith A. Simmonds (France)
new moonfall colors change into
an earthy tapisJesus Chameleon (USA)
cloudy hilltop —the peacock unrobesits kimonoKumarendra Mallick (India)
moon shadowin the folds of an orchid–
midnight mothKevin Valentine (USA)
autumn storma light in the distanceriver gorgeTatjana Debeljacki (Serbia)
bare branchestouching the wallof a cancer ward
Nicholas Klacsanzky (Ukraine)
coming homethrough cracked bridgesof my rootsBarbara A. Taylor (Australia)
BELOVED SOIthe stone carver’s sharpened
shadowMark E. Brager (USA)
beach sands-the waves take my nameback to the oceanArvinder Kaur (India)
gathering wintersthe dog’s muzzle
begins to grayJoyce Joslin Lorenson (USA)
autumn wildflowerslast chanceat becoming wordsPatrick Doerksen (Canada)
Milky Waystrewn across the pond —
a bullfrog chorusTheresa A. Cancro (USA)
sunset–the stone restsat bottomPravat Kumar Padhy (India)
summer solsticethe planet and I
cross a lineAndrew O. Dugas (USA)
late autumn—no poplar shadowin the old parkCarmen Duvalma (Romania)
the faucet dripping …my loneliness comes
inside herChen-ou Liu (Canada)
day’s end raking over rainHelen Buckingham (United Kingdom)
wild windshe asks me to take
ViagraMyron Lysenko (Australia)
a trekker actsto a trekker’s songslow moonriseKanavu Nila (India)
daylight fadesI no longer recognize
face in the mirrorMichael L. Newell (USA)
wave’s edge…a wooden seahorseat the local op shopAnne Curran (New Zealand)
graduation daygrown-up diction
on the phoneYukiko Yamada (Japan)
your line in the sandwaves push inthe tide pulls outDeborah P Kolodji (USA)
charred skin in a glass showcase HiroshimaBruce H. Feingold (USA)
drab mudflata million scavengingcrabsQuendryth Young (Australia)
between our indefinite silence the thundershowersArchana Kapoor Nagpal (India)
windlessthe lake under my touchbecomes liquidMagdalena Banaszkiewicz (Poland)
now what will it dothe autumn sun
in the spider’s web? Salil Chaturvedi (India)
power outage –a dandelion fluffflounced in the roomLavana Kray (Romania)
flock of sparrowsa thought
then it’s goneJulie Warther (USA)
alone again…a balloonin the bramblesNishant Mehrotra (India)
darkness arrives and the white pines absorb itTyler Pruett (USA)
prayerthe wind shifts on threadsbeads of dewJanina Ko odziejczyk (Italy) ł
just enough breezeto move the curtain
moonlit wavesSimon Hanson (Australia)
snow forecastthe delivery driverquoting ShakespeareDavid Serjeant (United Kingdom)
her descriptionof how to kill lab mice –
pitcher plantsSandra Simpson (New Zealand)
summer noon. . .even the koel skips it’s notesonce, twiceKanchan Chatterjee (India)
morning haze –red dragonflies stirring
the pond silenceSteliana Cristina Voicu (Romania)
pulling me along a string of geeseAlexis Rotella (USA)
origami…within each fold
a memoryShrikaanth Krishnamurthy (United Kingdom)
fading moonon a barren hilla coyote’s silenceJo Balistreri (USA)
Ramesh Anand (haiku), Ranjana Pai (artwork)Tinywords, 2014
Maria TomczakDaily Haiga, 27 July 2015
Billy Antonio (haiku), Gexter Lacambra (photo)130th WHA Haiga Contest (05/2015)
Anne CurranUndertow Tanka Review, Issue 4
Olivier SchopferPresence 49, February 2014
Jesus Chameleon (haiku), Pablo San Blaz (artwork)
David J Kelly
Kanavu Nila (tanka), Safiyyah Patel (artwork)Cattails, 2015
Janina Ko odziejczykł
cattails, May 2015
2015
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