Spring is coming, creeping through the twigs, silently seeping through the sap…
Ripples of Thought
Something different for your enjoyment— Ron C. Moss and Christopher Herold have collaborated in this YouTube production presenting haiku that they have each written in response to the other’s photographs accompanied by Cypress, music by Morpheus The result is something special.
Grab a cup of something you like and enjoy here
Groups and Gatherings
Congratulations
Peggy Willis Lyles Haiku Awards for 2021
Selections and comments by Ferris Gilli
First place
tangerine sunset
a small boy gallops
his stick-pony home
Ron C. Moss
Third place
a basket of shells
other tides wetting
other children
Marietta McGregor
All selections and judge’s comments can be found here
European Kukai
First place
a cloudless day
gulls stitch the cliff edge
to the ocean
Julia Wakefield
All entries and placings can be read here
New Zealand Poetry Society Haiku Competition
Selections and comments by Simon Hanson
Third place
mountain tarn
tadpoles nibble away
the endless sky
Ron C. Moss
Fifth place
wind
chime
storm
Jeffrey Harpeng
Highly commended
‘bare maple’ Gavin Austin
Commended
‘city rush’ – Jan Dobb
‘New Year jam -‘ Owen Bullock
‘sunlit jasmine…’ Gavin Austin
The complete versions of Highly Commended and Commended haiku along with editorial selections will be available in the forthcoming 2021 competition anthology edited by Tim Jones. The anthology will become available for orders through the New Zealand Poetry Society website.
Other selections and comments in the adult and junior haiku sections can be accessed here. Please scroll down. (The only haiku that is meant to be displayed as centered in the adult section is the first).
Gene Murtha Memorial Contest
Highly commended
last chemo
a lotus above
the waterline
Cynthia Rowe
vacuuming fruit flies my karmic overload
Madhuri Pillai
she loves me
she loves me not
shucking oysters
Gregory Piko
All selections and comments can by read here
Dream Tree
A collection of haiku by David Watts
Review comments by Margaret Mahony
Beginning with a dream tree, David Watts’s book of haiku is a joy to read and reread.
I particularly related to…
in my head
the songs he used to sing
my brother’s grave
so personal, so moving.
His sparsity of words in each poem speaks volumes. The imagery leaves me living each line.
The clarity of a dragonfly, the tininess of the ant, every creature described with
wonder. I see the homeless man in my own suburb. Personal reflections of
humankind, observation of seasons, light and colour written with fluidity.
The freeze, the fog, wind, rain and lantern glow, candle flame and the burn of
gluhwein.
If you are a lover of haiku, you want this book on your bookshelf.
Margaret Mahony
Australia
Fellow haiku poet
Contact the AHS Secretary for ordering details.
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Australian Haiku Society 