This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Melbourne poet, Jennifer Sutherland.
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The Australian Haiku Society is proud to announce the 3rd running of the John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku. This award is a biannual international haiku competition open to poets from all over the world.
Continue reading “3rd John Bird Dreaming Award for Haiku”This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Marietta McGregor.
three tiny bones
in my inner ear
meadow lark
time flows
around a heron
frost-tipped reeds
coastal cottage
the pale-blue feel
of aired sheets
unwilling to lose
the last of day
a lily’s light
– Marietta McGregor
Thursday, 10th October 2024
Many voices mingled beneath the trees on a sunny spring day, those of the numerous currawongs and magpies claiming dominance over those of human diners. Four of us met over lunch: Kathy Kituai, Marietta McGregor, Glenys Ferguson and Jan Dobb. Our thoughts were with missing friends, Hazel Hall and Greg Piko.
Continue reading “Haiku @ The Oaks, Canberra”This week’s featured poet from ‘Under the Same Moon’, the Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology, is Western Australian poet, Maureen Sexton.
skinny dipping
in the outback river
paperbark trees
fly fishing
the sudden flick of
a frog’s tongue
my mother asks
if I am her sister . . .
entry to the maze
my daughter’s grave …
shadows of flowers dance
by my side
domestic fight
a young child hiding
in the fairy garden
– Maureen Sexton
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
Join Paperbark Group’s Spring Ginko on 25th October from 10am in Kings Park, Perth. Meet at the Botanical Cafe, 60 Fraser Avenue.
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The White Pebbles Haiku group meets four times a year at the start of each season to celebrate the movement of the seasons and the writing of haiku in English in response. The Spring meeting was held on Saturday 14th September at the Pebbles’ regular meeting place – the beautiful Gosford/Edogawa Commemorative Japanese Gardens on the Central Coast of NSW.
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