Haiku News

If anyone is in the Philadelphia, Camden, NJ. area, March, Saturday, March 3, 2012.

Tom Painting will be presenting a haiku workshop from 10:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m. at

the Sacred Heart Church cafeteria, 1739 Ferry Ave., Camden, NJ 08104.

Fees: $10.00 per person, which includes lunch. Anyone who plans to attend, and

would like to have their work considered for workshop, submit up to 3 haiku by

February 16, 2012 to Michele L. Robinson: robinson(dot)m(dot)l(at)comcast(dot)net

Register by February 16, 2012. Please send a $10.00 check with contact information

to: Mary Heron, 824 Widener Road, Elkins Park, PA. 19027.

Questions, email Mary H. Heron at:

mhheron(at)verizon(dot)net

After the workshop, the NVHA is offering a tour of the Waterfront South Arts District.

Note: donations are always welcome. Annual Membership is $10.00 per year, Lifetime

Membership is $50.00, a onetime fee.

through obscure glass

_____________________________
Tempslibres / free times, July 2003
Memorial Day, Golden Swamp Warbler Press, 2005

Memorial Day
a layer of dust
covers his urn

______________________
The Heron's Nest October 2002, vol 4:10
Mad Poets Review, vol. 17, 2002

Gettysburg –-
the children pause
to watch a dove

_______________________________________
THN Nov. 2002, vol 4:11
THN Valantine AWard Issue 2003, Special Mention
Mad Poets Review vol.17, 2002
Memorial Day, Golden Swamp Warbler Press, 2005

spring mist –-
a mallard paddles
through our stillborn's ashes

________________________________________

THN 2003, Feb vol 5:2
Memorial Day, 2005, Golden Swamp Warbler Press

dawn
caught in a dewdrop –-
the empty swing


_________________________________________

THN, April 2003, vol. 5:4

July 4th —-
small talk over beer
with a redcoat

_________________________________

THN, May 2003, vol 5:5

first light
I pretend to shave
my son’s lathered face

__________________________

THN, June 2003, vol 5:6

morning sun —-
fish scales glisten
in the otter scat

_________________________

THN nov 2003, vol 5:11

shooting star —-
father’s ring
slips off my finger

_______________________

THN Dec. 2003, vol. 5:12

Indian summer
a bee bounces around
in the beer can

_________________________
Hermitage, vol 1:1, 2004

the gleam
in a child's eyes--
starlings shift direction


cancer ward--
a get-well balloon
in the trash

___________________________

Shinzounokodou, Issue 1, April 2004

dawn
the glen
...widens

__________________________
Shinzounokodou, Issue 3, June 2004

first light...
slow to rise
a phoebie's tail
__________________________
South by Southeast, vol.11:1, 2004

first frost--
the curved mitten-leaf
of a sassafras

early May--
an oriole draws me
up the tree

___________________________
South by Southeast, vol.11:2, 2004

first warm day
her callous feet
welcome the clover

__________________________
THN Jan. 2004, vol. 6:1

waxwings
exchange rose hips
Christmas morning

__________________________

THN March 2004, vol 6:2

dreary day —
my neighbor takes down
the hummingbird feeder

_______________________
THN, May 2004, vol 6:4

first warm day
a hermit thrush
pumps its tail

______________________
THN Aug 2004, vol 6:7
a procession of ripples, edited by Larylee Frazer


snap of a twig
the egret’s neck
extends

_______________________
THN Oct 2004, vol 6:9

Berlin Wall
a smooth stone
in my pocket

_______________________
THN Nov 2004, vol 6:10

Labor Day
the plowboy pauses
for a photo

______________________
THN Dec 2004, vol 6:11

flapping from the pond
a V takes shape
twilight chill

______________________
Walk The Same Path
HSA Member's Anthology, 2004

day moon--
the blue
in a dragonfly's wings

______________________

Frogpond XXVII:1, 2004

summer haze--
a crow flaps free
of the ashpalt

______________________

Loose Change, HSA Member's Anthology 2005

quiet pond
a stone turning
in my palm

_____________________

THN March 2005, vol 7:1

morning dew
I trace my son’s
lifeline

________________________

THN June 2005 vol 7:2

first warm day
a wheat penny lands
heads up

________________________

THN DEc 2005, vol 7:4

first warm day
the derelict’s
yellow tie

_________________________

White Lotus, Issue 2, spring/summer 2006
Reader's Chioce, White lotus, Issue 3, fall/winter 2006

hard frost--
not even a crow
breaks the silence

for E.S.Lamb

________________________
White Lotus, Issue 2, spring/summer 2006

talk of devorce
two starlings
back to back

_________________________
Hermitage, vol.3:1, 2006

spring rain
a child's ashes
mix with clay

my stride
begins to slow...
chrysanthemum

harvest moon
chopsticks circle
the rice bowl

__________________________

THN June 2006, vol. 8:2

dreary day
a black walnut
gnawed white

__________________________

THN, Sept 2006, vol. 8:3
The Heron's Nest Award Issue, Special Mention

fishing
where my brother stood —
twilight chill

_________________________

THN, March 2007, vol 9:1

Indian summer
the road crew plays catch
with a hardhat

_________________________

THN, March 2008, vol 10:1

snowed in . . .
fire wraps
around a log

________________________

THN, June 2008, Vol. 10:2

spring —
the pause before
she pulls a sapling

__________________________
THN, Sept. 2008, vol 10:3

steady drizzle
strand by strand
a robin’s nest

____________________________
THN, Dec. 2008, vol. 10:4

morning chill
a child’s shadow
moves thru mine


...and IMO Bill, WM. J. Higginson

starry night . . .
a worn phone number
in the handbook

____________________________
THN, Mar. 2009, vo. 11:1

hard frost
a dumpster's lid
slams shut

___________________________
Special Shiki toku kukai 2009 IMO WM.J.Higinson

first light--
a duck flaps out
of all the gold

for the Nick Virgilio Haiku Assoc.

originally written during the Virgilio Memorial Reading, June 2006, & a tanka:

memorial reading:
in between Walt Whitman
and Virgilio
an egret, steadfast--
pure white & naked

tanka

we lean

into one another's
broken parts
a pair of thrush
rebuild their nest


*for Inky

alone
gazing out upon
the breakwater
everything I've lost
everything I've birthed




sharing love
with another child
I count
the different shapes
of each snowflake





an iris
trapped in a vase
like love
there are things
we never wanted

knapsack
and cane pole
I search
the pond's edge
for an answer

a hopi carves
the kachina from cottonwood
my roots too
are plucked like shavings
from the whittler's knife

note: the Hopi are an south western Native American Tribe, a Kachina is a doll.

Barry George, Wrecking Ball & other Urban Haiku

**NEW

Dear fellow haiku poets & friends:

I am proud to announce the publication of my chapbook; Wrecking Ball & other Urban Haiku from Accents Publishing. A haiku chronicle of the seasons in my home city, Philadelphia, it collects poems that have appeared in haiku journal in recent years, with some new poems as well.

Perfect bound, 30 haiku, 30 pages; just $5 dollars. Reviewed in the current edition of Frogpond.

It is available from the publisher Accent Publishing: http://www.accents-publishing.com/, from http://www.amazon.com/. or from me:

Barry George
2011 Chestnut st., #11G
Philadelphia, Pa. 19103

($5 plus $1 shipping & handling, within the USA). Please make Check out to: Barry George.

when you think

when you think
you've heard it all--
brown thrasher

The Heron's Nest 11:4

haiku, Acorn # 23, fall 2009

new moon. . .
an old woman speaks
of the emptiness

ancient trail
footprints fade
with the dew