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
Text and photo by Rose van Son
It has been a hot summer here in Perth, the heat unrelenting and so many days over 40C+! Needless to say, our meeting destined for the Harold Boas Gardens was cancelled because of the forecast. We had been looking forward to the walk, viewing the gardens, experiencing the waterfalls in the brochures; the gardens perched right on the city’s edge. We thought we could beat the heat, keep to canopied areas, and grapple with moving shade: we can do this, we said! But no, the heat unbearable and the event cancelled.
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To my book launch! Haiku and stories and beautiful images…
from the open doorway
Where: Adachi Park in the Japanese Pavilion there, just past the children’s playground, Great Eastern Highway, Belmont (closest corner Abernathy Road) Perth, Western Australia
When: March 30, 2022. 2 pm
Would love to see you there!
Best, Rose
“Rose takes perception and memory, mind and heart to capture a particular moment…” Coral Carter
On a glorious winter’s day, 5th August, 2020, in Perth, Western Australia, I contemplated the healing power of the sun as it entered my study windows through thin vertical blinds. Outside, the succulents were busy showing off their light and shade, their colour and variation; inside, I was preparing for the two hour Paperbark Haiku Zoom Winter Ginko gathering.
Come along to the launch of Nature’s Warehouse: Birds in Focus, a collection of 90 colour photographs and poems by Rose van Son. The launch will be taking place at the Gallows Gallery in Mosman, Western Australia on the evening of Thursday the 27th February.
Wednesday 12th February 2020
Such a pretty place – Guildford, WA is an important town in the Swan Valley with so much history. I was lucky to have grown up in the area and that makes a difference to how you see a place and its relevance to writing haiku because you know its background, its heritage, and its heritage become yours.
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Australian Haiku Society 