Monthly Archives: March 2019

Sharpening The Green Pencil Haiku Contest 2019

  sea breeze… I breathe in your accent   Commentary by Jim Kacian:   Everything about this poem is charming: who does not welcome a sea breeze? And what is so winsome as a foreign accent (at least when we … Continue reading

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Family Values

  “Since then I’ve always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.” Alice Sebold – ‘Lucky’   His-story is a global disease … Continue reading

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Haiku – FemkuMag

  lying about her age craggy moon     snowflakes the different shapes of perfect     two to tango the sound of whiskey on his breath   FemkuMag issue 10, March 2019 https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/f4c0ea_56aed2c213fd42faa84e8fbfb70681b7.pdf?utm_source=%23FemkuMag&utm_campaign=dc969d4d97-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_29_03_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_26c80737b4-dc969d4d97-25463281

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Tanka – FemkuMag

  I fill an awkward silence with small talk dead rose petals surround the flower vase   FemkuMag issue 10, March 2019 https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/f4c0ea_56aed2c213fd42faa84e8fbfb70681b7.pdf?utm_source=%23FemkuMag&utm_campaign=dc969d4d97-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_03_29_03_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_26c80737b4-dc969d4d97-25463281

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Haiku – Seashores

  sanderlings— the bleached bones of cuttlefish   curlew’s cry. . . a wisp of cloud clings to the mountain   Seashores haiku journal Vol 2 April 2019

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Haiku Dialogue: lost piece of clothing

  missing scarf the scarecrow’s knowing grin   Haiku Dialogue: What’s at Hand – – a lost piece of clothing Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog 27 March 2019 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/03/27/haiku-dialogue-whats-at-hand-week-9/?fbclid=IwAR04QyCTbWIS-e6NsQVvaXKYr7d92pCqAEE4GD7ClzRqDqd6BIufa6hCh70

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The British Haiku Society Awards 2018

  I’m delighted to be a runner-up in the haiku section of The British Haiku Society Awards 2018.   earthshine . . . the stir of life in a siskin’s egg   British Haiku Society Awards 2018 – Haiku Section Runner-up … Continue reading

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Haiku – Stardust

  silver moon the swan floats on a cloud   Stardust Haiku Issue 27, March 2019 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bBfyoq_GZC-EJBrPLfzQy_K5hzTXWwhT/view

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Haiku – Presence

  wisps of cloud cling to the hills— eagle’s cry   spring lamb— out of the folds into the fold   Presence, Issue 63, March 2019 ISSN 1366-5367

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Haiku — takeout menu

  spring cleaning I take out a spider on a pizza menu   Haiku Dialogue: What’s at Hand -20 March 2019 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/03/20/haiku-dialogue-whats-at-hand-week-8/#comment-97780https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/03/20/haiku-dialogue-whats-at-hand-week-8/#comment-97780

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