Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon (Australian Haiku Anthology)

This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne-based poet, Myron Lysenko.

the missile
lands in an armchair
russian invasion

visiting Ukraine
by day and night…
online news

Harvesters
in the war-torn wheat field
grains of truth

a flag flutters
in the sowed field
late spring snow

– Myron Lysenko

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The 2024 AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai

Grand Final day—
the clear blue sky
is part of the scent

Welcome to the annual celebration of Australian footy and haiku!

Calling all haiku poets from every nook and cranny on the planet to participate in the Annual AFL Grand Final Haiku Kukai for 2024. This has become a much loved event, now running for over a decade! The one day of the year when haiku poets, expert and novice, footy fan or critic, turn their Zen minds to the rip-roaring, white-knuckle ride of a footy match to produce a live haiku call of the AFL Grand Final.

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Featured Haiku – Under the Same Moon (Australian Haiku Anthology)

This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Western Australian poet, Rose van Son.

stringing tomatoes –
midsummer’s fruit
hangs on to midwinter

           

magnolia blooms …
three generations of
a family tree

                                                                 

writer’s retreat
clock chimes
each quarter hour

 

wild fennel
mother’s olive jar
overflows

 

– Rose van Son

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