Drinkable haiku
into an old tin cup
a pristine trickle
of pineland water
Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2022/05/drinkable-haiku.html), 5/1/22.
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into an old tin cup
a pristine trickle
of pineland water
Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2022/05/drinkable-haiku.html), 5/1/22.
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Making fairy doors is fun! Here is my fifth one: Shell Cottage. :- )
burnished copper beaten gold . . . sunrise on the wet sand
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To celebrate National Poetry Month last April, Mercer County Library (Lawrence, New Jersey, branch) graciously hosted an installation of my haiku: ten yard signs placed in the grass and gardens across the front of the building.
The concept was a hit, and this year the library adopted the program and produced a dozen signs of their own! (Two of my haiku are in the mix.)
What began as a one-time “proof of concept” initiative has transformed into an annual event. Let’s hear it for poetry-loving librarians everywhere! ::applause, applause::
For more information about the Mercer County Library System: https://mcl.org/branches/lawrence
For more information about the Poetry in Public Places Project: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PoetryInPublicPlacesProject
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from nowhere
to nowhere . . .
bridge in fog
Published in Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog (https://charlottedigregorio.wordpress.com/2022/03/31/daily-haiku-april-1-2022/), 4/1/22.
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After making three fairy doors out of twigs, I wanted to change things up by making some with a seashore vibe. I didn’t have any driftwood, though, so I posted an ask in my local Buy Nothing FB group.
Lo and behold, someone came through for me with a baggie stuffed with small bits and pieces from the beach!
Note the curved roof support! And the blue circular thing is an enameled metal button with an anchor on it, compliments of my wife’s button jar. 💕
After I constructed the door, I realized I needed a sand dune to photograph it against. What to do? I did not ask the Buy Nothing group for one — LOL! — but I did create a suitable backdrop with a rights-free image that I blew up and edited. Pretty effective!
burnished copper beaten gold . . . sunrise on the wet sand
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you come and go
as you please . . .
fickle moon
Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2021/12/night-haiku-from-sunset-to-sunrise.html), 12/1/21.
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summer woods . . .
beneath the leaf mold
mushrooms
wabi? sabi?
I scratch my head
and eat some wasabi
Wabi and sabi — the bittersweet beauties of imperfection and impermanence — are fundamental Japanese aesthetics that figure prominently in haiku. I can never remember which is which, though, so I’m forever looking them up. LOL!
(For a more nuanced look at wabi and sabi — because it’s more subtle and complex than the simplistic definition I offer above — see my post The Wabi-Sabi Aesthetic. ;- )
Published in Brass Bell: A Haiku Journal (http://brassbellhaiku.blogspot.com/2021/05/edible-haiku.html), 5/1/21.
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