Alternating

By Bill Waters (poem) and Robin White (photo)

 

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Published in Daily Haiga (http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/2300/-heat-by-bill-waters-usa), 6/6/18.

About Robin White:
—> http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/robin-white/page/3/

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Two toddlers

two toddlers in the field . . .

he gives his sister

a flower

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Published in Akitsu Quarterly: Summer 2018 (http://www.wildgraces.com/Akitsu-Quarterly.html), 5/23/18.

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Cusp of spring

By Bill Waters (poem) and Paula Dawn Lietz (photo)

Cusp of Spring

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Published in Vines no. 2 (https://hedgerowpoems.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/vines-2-live.pdf), 5/25/18.

About Paula Dawn Lietz:
—> http://www.saintjulianpress.com/paula-dawn-lietz.html
—> https://writingforpeace.org/writing-for-peace-welcomes-pd-lietz-artist-in-residence/

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One in French

étang au crépuscule —
grenouilles et merles
en conversation

pond at dusk —
frogs and blackbirds
in conversation

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Published in the French/English haiku database Temps Libres (http://tempslibres.org/tl/tlphp/dbhk01.php?auteur=wate-b&lg=e), May 2018. Translation by Serge Tomé.

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The redwing blackbird

even from a distance

the redwing blackbird

across the field

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Published in the Asahi Shimbun‘s Asahi Haikuist Network section (http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201805180006.html), 5/4/18.

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Video poem 10a

CLICK THIS LINK to play “Video Poem No. 10a”.

Video Poem No. 10a.

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Cusp of spring

cusp of spring —

somewhere in the landscape

blackbirds calling

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Published in the Asahi Shimbun‘s Asahi Haikuist Network section (http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201805040006.html), 5/4/18.

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Three shahai

By Bill Waters (poem) and Robin White (photo)

Boundaries

 

New Beginning

 

Cycle of Seasons

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Published in Prune Juice: A Journal of Senryu, Kyoka, Haibun, and Haiga (no. 24), pages 91-93 (https://prunejuice.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/pj24-revised.pdf), 5/1/18.

About Robin White:
—> http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/robin-white/page/3/

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The shadows of birds

all around the sleeping cat

the shadows of birds

fluttering

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Published in Acorn: A Journal of Contemporary Haiku, spring 2018.

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Poem-in-Your-Pocket Day 2018

To celebrate Poem-in-Your-Pocket day this year, the local branch of my county library had a reading of short poems. The featured readers were members of The Cool Women Poets critique and performance group and a local middle school student. The Cool Women totally lived up to their name, and the student did a wonderful job reading one poem and then singing another — a born performer!

Members of the audience were also invited to participate. I read Ted Kooser’s “Skater” and, since it was a local crowd, some haiku I penned on Haiku Poetry Day the week before at a well-known nearby environmental preserve.

It was a creatively stimulating event and a very pleasant way to pass an hour among lovers of poetry.  :- )

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