HAIKU

receding flood

the dampness in the

Christmas cheer

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tsuri-doro — a small journal of haiku and senryu

Issue# 20 – March/April 2024

Haiku

park grounds

a magpie feather

sheds its gloss

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( Modern Haiku 55.1 2024 )

HAIKU

old mining town

vying with the moon

the abandoned craters

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( Fratured By Cattails – HSA Member’s Anthology – 2023 )

HAIKU

backyard barbecue –

before the countdown

the reunion

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(Espacio Luna Alfanje, Jan 2024 – bringing in the new year )

Haiku

Black Friday Sales —

the new dog and I

smell the breeze

(Pan Haiku Review, Issue 2, Winter 2023, the theme was Kigo)

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golden wattle …

almost a gallop

in the dog’s stride

(First published in Hedgerow #135 ed. Caroline Skanne)

TANKA

through

the green radiance of a

chirping bush

brushing the breeze

from my face, I cycle on

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(Presence, Issue 77, Nov. 2023)

Haiku

half eaten banana

the magpies too

reluctant

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( Presence, Issue 77, Nov. 2023)

HAIKU

cape relinquished…

not the wonder woman

she used to be

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( Change – The British Haiku Society Members’ Anthology, 2023 )

TANKA

howling

in the backyard

neighbour’s dog…

the cry of loneliness

same as in humans

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(Blithe Spirit, Vol 33 Number 4, Nov. 2023)

HAIKU

coral dawn

the balcony alight

with foraging coucals

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(Blithe Spirit, Vol.33 Number 4, Nov. 2023)

HAIKU

cycling uphill —

the battle between

my strength and will

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lit windows

of the high-rise …

the lives within

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( 15th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest ~

Selected Haiku Submissions Collection )

HAIKU

burst of clivia

through the window

a soughing pine

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( cattails — Oct. 2023)

HAIKU

parallel parking

through the fence

the blazing red of a tomato

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(Blithe Spirit, Vol. 33 Number 3, August 2023)

TANKA

this stretch

of books lined

on the shelves

how I pursue solitude

through the perusal of words

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( One Moment at a Time, TSA Members’ Anthology, 2023 )

HAIKU

rain streaking

down train window —

absconding moon

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( Asahi Haikuist Network, Sept. 29, 2023 )

HAIKU

now and then

the moon through gum trees

a kookaburra’s taunt

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(Asahi Haikuist Network, Oct. 20, 2023)