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Haiku – Failed Haiku

Posted on May 1, 2019 by

  family reunion I add hot spices to the mulled wine     foreign map the taxi driver’s prominent veins     heatwave the uber driver says my street is cool     Easter egg I gaze into a vacuum … Continue reading →

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Haiku – The Mamba

Posted on March 10, 2019 by

  passing storm . . . the moon wrinkles on the river   The Mamba, Journal of Africa Haiku Network, Issue 7, March 2019 https://africahaikunetwork.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/mamba-issue-7.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3Wjj_qqoNflWB5FkfjVTYa4SSu0ack3tf3z7tkETdMM1O2d_UBRQYlHb8

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Haiku – Akitsu

Posted on February 22, 2019 by

  paperwork my room full of moths   old scarecrow in a pushcart – bonfire night   first snow a stoat changes without thought   Akitsu Quarterly Spring 2019 http://www.wildgraces.com/Akitsu-Quarterly.html

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Haiku – Akitsu

Posted on January 6, 2019 by

  deep winter the emptiness of a tortoiseshell   hedgehog the deep sleep of winter trees   drifting moon the old horse’s whinny on the winter wind   Akitsu Quarterly, Winter 2018

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Senryu – Failed Haiku

Posted on January 1, 2019 by

  Santa Claus a girl takes sweets from a stranger   slanting rain I try to get a word in edgeways   spilled gravy he talks over me at dinner   polling day the snowman leans to the left   … Continue reading →

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Haiku – Sidewalk sounds

Posted on December 5, 2018 by

  pouring rain a crow’s caw soaks into my ears   A Sense of Place – Sidewalk sounds, 5 December. 2018 Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/12/05/a-sense-of-place-city-sidewalk-hearing/?fbclid=IwAR39mfTDB5skrLKHn2Cdgjs6AfTG328Csil3HpXB8OlU_MmFBYZHcO5qMEA

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Haiku – Luca’s Lily Pad

Posted on November 12, 2018 by

chill wind kids on bikes run over my shadow Luca’s Lily Pad, 12 November, 2018 https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FMyHaikuPond%2Fposts%2F1967746199978559&width=500   https://www.facebook.com/MyHaikuPond  

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Senryu – Failed Haiku

Posted on October 1, 2018 by

  hunter’s moon he captures a dinosaur on camera   chivalry he holds the door open for the wasp   toy dalek my childhood exterminated   British weather letting the culture soak in   french restaurant we ruminate on the … Continue reading →

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Tanka – Frameless Sky

Posted on August 17, 2018 by

  dawn slips through the city on the river a chiffchaff brings the news of spring     shadows move through stones in shards of moonlight the jagged edges of truth between us     last relative – my roots … Continue reading →

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Haiku

Posted on November 27, 2017 by

  rabbit tracks: a snowman with no nose Presence, 55, 2016 © Martha Magenta Chinese Translation (Traditional) 兔子腳印 一個沒有鼻子 的雪人 Chinese Translation (Simplified) 兔子脚印 一个没有鼻子 的雪人    NeverEnding Story First English-Chinese Bilingual Haiku and Tanka Blog Sunday, November 26, 2017 http://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/butterfly-dream-snowman-haiku-by-martha.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/LBVNU+(NeverEnding+Story)

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