Senryu

The last time I checked, a tweet I wrote had zero hearts for months but now it has one. I wrote about this in the past. Hearts on Twitter means nothing. It’s the editor who decides in one of the most difficult haiku/senryu journals to get into. 

forgotten password

the search for my username 

and who I once was

Frogpond Autumn Issue 2019 

Link:

http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/2019-issue42-2/index.html

Senryu

It was a tough time during this submission period after missing the last due to Rachel Sutcliffe’s death, where I quit writing haiku for 4 months, losing my Facebook account but I got one senryu in.

end of debate —

a chunk of red herring

lands on my food 

Cattails October 2019 Issue 

Direct Link:

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattailsoctober2019.pdf

Haiku

Long ago I was given wings to fly alone but sometimes I return to where it all started for advice or in this case an opinion and out of three this was chosen:

basking koi

I dip my finger 

in the sun 

Cattails October Issue 2019 

Thank you great mentor and friend brendon_kent 🙏

Direct Link:

http://www.cattailsjournal.com/issues/cattailsoctober2019.pdf

Sequence Parallel Haiku

Publishing Credits Under The Basho Linked Forms 2019

Direct Link:

https://underthebasho.com/utb-2019/linked-forms/2685-sequence-of-parallel-haiku.html

Haiku

passing cloud 

the lift of spirits

on this drought 

home excorcism 

the mosquito first 

then the spirits 

Publishing Credits, Poetry Pea Theme (Spirits)

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https://poetrypea.com

Haibun

“Coma”

Where I live now, I dreamt of in my sleep in exact detail from the lights to the sound, the air I taste and the feel of my surroundings as it continues to unfold from more than a decade ago. This tells me that the past, present and future already was which is enough time for over two billion years of repetition in my logical thinking.


summer bloom
a fleeting moment churns
in the compost bin


Fractled

Publishing Credits, The Other Bunny September 16 2019

Direct link:

https://theotherbunny.blog/2019/09/16/coma/

Tankaku

quitely

fishing for carp

this stillness 

while hummingbirds 

surround me

a tight line

the beauty of 

letting go

how long has it been

to feel this moment again 

in sway with the trees 

and to see things as they are

on this homemade swing

deep summer 

the child in mom

lifts her spirit 

*Note, tankaku is an experimental hybrid of a tanka poem paired with a haiku. It is known that waka/tanka is the much older form of Japanese poetry that gave birth to hokku/haiku. Long story short, while writing a tanka, a haiku about it was on my mind and I put it below the tanka so it would not be forgotten. The two to me seemed to pair well which led to the creation of tankaku. 

Publishing Credits, Otata Issue 49 

Direct Link:

https://otatablog.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/post-otata-46-october-2019.pdf

Haiku

first butterfly
the wingspan
of a child’s shadow

Publishing Credits, Mamba Journal September Issue 2019

Direct Link:

https://africahaikunetwork.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/september-issue-2019.pdf

One-Line Haiku

lake view another mayfly widens a portal


Publishing Credits, Hedgerow #147

Homepage:

https://hedgerowhaiku.com/tag/haiku/

Haiku

the whiplash

his first shooting star 

out of sight 

meteor shower 

I run our of wishes 

at its peak

the cosmos 

worlds upon worlds

of dust motes 

space anomaly 

a wormhole opens up

on this bad trip

Publishing Credits Black Bough Poetry issue 2.5

Direct Link:

https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/065db4_1d4a02c685824e07b16436de8de2ace7.pdf