• This haiga was first published in Haiga Online issue 5 www.haigaonline.com
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Sunday, December 30
New haiga by Pamela Babusci
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 30 Dec 2007 09:59 AM GMT
Friday, December 28
New haibun by Mike Montreuil
by
Charles Christian
on Fri 28 Dec 2007 05:21 PM GMT
2 AM
I can hear the furnace pushing air at its lowest speed. The four clocks on the main floor are keeping time at different rates and their beats become louder then softer, as I try in vain to relax with a late night movie. A car with a missing muffler passes down our street. I know I will not be the only one to hear it. Under a street lamp a moth circles – the endless night • Mike Montreuil lives in Ottawa (Canada) and can be found at a hockey rink cheering on his son. Monday, December 24
A Christmas Collection from IS&T
by
Charles Christian
on Mon 24 Dec 2007 11:20 AM GMT
We'd like to wish all our readers – all 3500 of you – a Happy Christmas and here are some seasonal offerings by Tish Davis, Maureen Weldon and Chris Major...
Two haiku by Tish Davis virgin snow a young boy runs ahead to warn the rabbit *** these woods again a leaf frozen in the spider web • Tish Davis lives and works in the US. Her haibun have appeared in Contemporary Haibun Online. Recently one of her haiku was recognized as a Poem of Merit in the R.H. Blyth Awards for 2007. Like Soap Bubbles by Maureen Weldon Winter: like soap bubbles in a washing-up bowl. This will not last, this cup, that plate, the garden reflecting in my eye. Or my lover – he used to hold my heart – who has a golden tongue – a gift for music. I brushed his body with my long red hair. It was Christmas then, it is Christmas now : green crates of decorations, bottles of wine, flickering candles. I see them on my kitchen window, mirrored in fairy lights and parcels of secrets. From the hall, three little boys Are singing Silent Night, to the rhythm of their money-box. Now my daughter shuts the door the sound goes round and round. In the sink the suds have sunk, In the centre: a star. To poems – one concrete – by Chris Major PROTEST POEM Every Christmas it's the same: given without much thought, the perfect choice for a festive season. Oh, there should be stickers everywhere, for they are not just for Christmas; because the novelty soon wears thin, and abandoned, pushed aside they are cruelly left, good only to blame odd farts on.......... ..........bloody sprouts. SOMEWHERE (footprints) soon her step will fill: flowers 'n' cards as guilty neighbours churn to snowy slush a blank white page of garden path. Too little then, and too late, all print that is this poem's shape. • Chris Major is a regular IS&T contributor Sunday, December 23
New haiga by Pamela Babusci
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 23 Dec 2007 12:37 PM GMT
 • This haiga was first published in Reeds: Contemporary Haiga (Vol. 2, 2004) www.reedscontemporaryhaiga.com Sunday, December 16
Mushrooms - a haiga renga
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 16 Dec 2007 04:20 PM GMT
MUSHROOMS – a haiga renga by Alexis Rotella & Denis Garrison
Everywhere kanji, even in the mushroom slices. puffball on this cloudless day a cloud of life In monochrome walking through these winter woods. maple litter strangely comforting the fragrant rot After they fall sound of hickory nuts. in my cuff some of the forest has come with me Pine needles on his pillow... how I love his morning face. + See illustration in sidebar • Alexis Rotella is an award winning poet and author of more than 40 books. Her latest offerings are EAVESDROPPING (Haiku), OUCH (Senryu that Bite) and LIP PRINTS (400+ tanka) all available from Modern English Tanka Press or through Amazon.com She has edited three haiku journals including Frogpond, Brussels Sprout and Persimmon Tree and served as president of the Haiku Society of America in l984. Alexis is a acupuncturist/herbalist in Arnold, Maryland. • Denis M. Garrison is the editor of Modern English Tanka and before that edited the journal Haiku Harvest. A resident of Baltimore, Maryland, Garrison has two published books of haiku: Eight Shades of Blue and Hidden River. His poetry website is www.flyingfishes.net Sunday, December 2
New taiga by Pamela Babusci
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 02 Dec 2007 11:26 AM GMT
 • Pamela Babusci is an American poet and artist and previous contributor to IS&T. She describes 'taiga' as made-up term for combining tanka with art, in the same way that a haiku + art becomes a haiga. |
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