Congratulations to Simon Hanson for being named as the latest weekly winner in the “re: Virals” segment on The Haiku Foundation website.
Yet commentaries by two other Australian-based writers – Janet Marsh and Cynthia Rowe – were also posted in response to the haiku given below, along with a further comment from Canadian Garry Eaton.
Written by Rodney Williams, this poem was selected by fellow Victorian Jo McInerney, after she had been named the previous winner in “re: Virals 33”:
glimpse of dolphin
beyond the river mouth …
friends a youth ago
beyond the river mouth …
friends a youth ago
– Rodney Williams
As the latest winner of “re: Virals”, Simon Hanson has selected a bi-lingual haiku from Ireland for comment by THF readers, with responses encouraged through The Haiku Foundation website:
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/05/05/revirals-34/
http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2016/05/05/revirals-34/
thíos anseo
canaid don doircheacht
na míolta móra
down below
singing to the darkness,
great whales
— Buachallán Buí (Ireland; translated from the Irish by the author and Anatoly Kudryavitsky), Shamrock 25 (2013)
Australian Haiku Society 