Laundry day
Published in DailyHaiga (http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/2601/-laundry-day-by-bill-waters-usa), 11/12/19.
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Bill Waters ~~ Haiku
Haiku + Tanka, Haibun, Rengay, Shahai, & More
Miniature Film Festival, 2019
My 34-second video poem “Mixed Signals” was shown yesterday evening at the 5th-annual Miniature Film Festival, in Vancouver!
The filmfest offered a program of 46 videos of 60 seconds or less on the theme of hope (broadly interpreted). “It was a fun time and the audience really enjoyed your films!” said MFF organizer Robert David Duncan.
So if you have half a minute, I invite you to take a look at my contribution to the event, “Mixed Signals” — a quick hit of poetry to amuse and (perhaps) intrigue you! To view the video, just click this link: https://vimeo.com/billwaters/videopoem03. ;- )
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Heavy snowfall
it even hides
my grief —
heavy snowfall
Published in Acorn: A Journal of Contemporary Haiku, fall 2019.
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The Amazing Pumpkin Carve 2019, part 2
Entrance to The Amazing Pumpkin Carve at Woolsey Park, Hopewell Township, New Jersey. Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
The Amazing Pumpkin Carve, which I described in The Amazing Pumpkin Carve 2019, part 1, has come and gone. Omigosh, those huge sculpted pumpkins! :- D
Mmm Brains, by Eric Schultz. Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
It was an honor, indeed, to have had a small part in the success of this big annual event. The Hopewell Valley Arts Council, who ran it, generously allowed me to place ten of my micro-poem signs around the fairgrounds for the five-day duration of the fall festival’s run.
Here are some photos of my signs. I hope you enjoy them!
Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
Photo by Bill Waters.
Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
Photo by Bill Waters.
Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
Photo by Bill Waters.
Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
Is that a ghost behind me?! Call the Ghostbusters!
Hopewell Valley Arts Council: https://www.hvartscouncil.org
Poetry in Public Places Project: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PoetryInPublicPlacesProject/
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The Amazing Pumpkin Carve 2019, part 1
Earlier this month, the Hopewell Valley Arts Council ran its 5th-annual Amazing Pumpkin Carve, a local fall festival in Central New Jersey featuring 40 massive pumpkins imaginatively sculpted and lit. These pumpkins truly looked amazing, by day . . .
Mmm Brains, by Eric Schultz. Photo courtesy of Nancy Waters.
Georgi’s Room, by Aleece Davis and Jill Thomas.
. . . and by night:
By Michael Davies. Photo courtesy of Mary Galioto.
By Patrick Pasquito. Photo courtesy of Mary Galioto.
New this year, the event also included a little poetry — or, to be precise, a lot of little poems. Dotting the fairgrounds on yard signs, ten of my haiku and senryu were on display for the enjoyment of visitors.
Here are the signs, without their stands. (Pumpkin-colored cat not included.)
Poem signs . . . and a cat!
If you’d like to see how the signs looked on site, please check out The Amazing Pumpkin Carve 2019, part 2. ;- )
Hopewell Valley Arts Council: https://www.hvartscouncil.org
Poetry in Public Places Project: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PoetryInPublicPlacesProject/
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Afternoon
Published in DailyHaiga (http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/2583/-afternoon-by-bill-waters-usa), 10/9/19.
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Four in French
elles s’en foutent
du panneau défense d’entrer !
les violettes
they disregard
the No Trespassing sign!
violets
tellement plus grand
que son flacon —
l’essence de lavande
so much bigger
than its bottle —
essence of lavender
than its bottle —
essence of lavender
sommeil agité —
un seul aboiement dans le noir
puis le silence
fitful sleep —
a single bark in the dark
then silence
tonnerre lointain
des voilages blancs ondulent
dans le crépuscule
distant thunder
white curtains billow
in the dusk
white curtains billow
in the dusk
Published in the French/English haiku database Temps Libres (http://tempslibres.org/tl/tlphp/dbhk01.php?auteur=wate-b&lg=e), fall 2019. Translations by Serge Tomé.
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