Tag Archives: song

Autumn Moon Haiku Contest 2019

  ripening haws the robin changes its song   Honorable mention, Autumn Moon Haiku Contest 2019 https://www.autumnmoonhaiku.com/?fbclid=IwAR0Srl5CfNr8yTcZOFpl8N8KT62lSm-Dxt66qT4CSi7UKllk0Ec8F1wKefU

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Poets Salon – Wild

It’s an honour to see my haiku and tanka featured in Poets Salon with the theme Wild, along with some great poets.   incoming tide the eager thrust of a seagull’s wings Ο slow river daffodils nod at a passing … Continue reading

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Haiku – Blithe Spirit

  ants searching for the name of a place on a map   dipper’s song along the lost path   Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society, volume 29, #2, May 2019 ISSN 1353-3320

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Haiku Dialogue, a shiny instrument

  yellow bird his fingers fly over the clarinet   Haiku Dialogue, a shiny instrument, 22 May 2019 Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2019/05/22/haiku-dialogue-whats-at-hand-week-17/?fbclid=IwAR0TuaQedZdRzfYmSpXw_D4TH-Tir5Xsa5YA5ubb36rY3_cURhg30jg8vgk

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European Kukai 2018

  skylark’s song her faded words on a postcard   Note: Skylark populations are declining in almost all countries of northern and western Europe. Read more at https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/skylark/threats/#Z7lMm1rS5lSJLVEo.99 10th place EUROPEAN KUKAI 2018 – Monday, December 31, 2018 https://europeankukai.blogspot.com/2018/12/results-of-european-kukai-2018-121_31.html?fbclid=IwAR00SUU8t7QXlaydVaG0KOj2EkSV8BWkMZQJaiWtd1PE8Te6QfDIS8CCX2M

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Haiku – field feelings

  blackbird’s song the shiver up my spine   A Sense of Place: Meadow/field – touch Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog, October 17, 2018 https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/10/17/a-sense-of-place-meadow-field-touch/?fbclid=IwAR1DVHzIbyNJOMjJLP_ADzrRAPWPSuNtd-4KlZMaNk5V-pxSraw6Iv_o7lg

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Tanka – Red Lights

  coronation year – a monkey dances on the organ while mother shows me off in the street   the blackbird ends its song in the quiet afternoon I place violets on mother’s grave   © Martha Magenta Red Lights … Continue reading

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Haiku Canada

  flying out of a forgotten dream wren song   © Martha Magenta   Haiku Canada Members’ Anthology 2018 ISBN 978-0-920752-36-4 Previously published: World Haiku Review August 2017

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Haiku – Incense Dreams

  the rhythm of the baby’s heartbeat gibbous moon     fertility clinic the pond full of tadpoles     robin’s song awakening cherry blossoms   Incense Dreams Journal, Issue 2.2, July 2018 – theme of birth, rebirth, and awakening … Continue reading

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Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2018

  river kingfisher a splash of blue in the cloud — Martha Magenta, 71st Basho Memorial English Haiku Contest, 2017 * robin’s egg on the ground fractured sky — Martha Magenta, Akitsu Quarterly Fall 2017 * summer solstice the sky … Continue reading

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