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View Article  New haiga by Pamela Babusci





• This haiga was first published in Haiga Online issue 5 
www.haigaonline.com

View Article  New haibun by Mike Montreuil
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.
View Article  A Christmas Collection from IS&T
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

View Article  New haiga by Pamela Babusci


• This haiga was first published in Reeds: Contemporary Haiga (Vol. 2, 2004)
www.reedscontemporaryhaiga.com

 
View Article  Mushrooms - a haiga renga
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

View Article  New taiga by Pamela Babusci





• 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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