December 2010
Selectors/Editors: Rose van Son, Maureen Sexton
Administration: Maureen Sexton
Contributors:
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etched on dawn
a fish-bone pine survives
the fire
banksia flower
sometimes fireworks
sometimes candle
bauhinia poised
to discover flight
atop twig tips
grey sheep grazing
the mountains of the moon
on a cloudy night
Jennifer McRae-Poulter
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late afternoon
long shadows
bar code the road
road kill fast food
self serve customers
– crows
Coral Carter
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old chestnut tree
with shadows of leaves
sky eagle
Tatjana Debeljacki
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new day
the rising pitch
of a boiling kettle
a seagull
over the lake …
underwings aglow
orb-weaver
a trail of gutted flies
across the web
mid-summer
a white feather tinged
with yellow
writing late –
a plover’s call
etched on the night
take off …
a swamp hen walks
on water
Quendryth Young
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Christmas lily
his gift opened
early
sculptures by the sea–
the tattooed man
reflective
homecoming…
the empty snail shell
filled with light
observatory
a Beijing tourist
weeps at the stars
pay day
a money spider
in the washroom
morning fog…
hiss of oars
on the river
Cynthia Rowe
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searing summer night
limp eucalyptus leaves
shiver blue in moonlight
life’s traffic light cycle
red green amber red
birth growth aging death
Shiki* has TB
he catches a common cold
a-haiku! a-haiku!
we all fall down
Elio Novello
* Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), one of the great haiku masters, credited with revitalising Haiku poetry form. He died young, of complications from tuberculosis.
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Senryu For Your Supper
A haiku dinner
only five, seven and five
tiny plates of snacks…
seven grains of rice
miniscule dish of soy sauce
and five hungry guests.
Derek Fenton
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sky’s canvas
scrawl of cirrus
unread
Kevin Gillam
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spring shoots
the child has grown
two inches
shaking feather pillows
two doves preening
Meryl Manoy
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warm colours moving
in a world full of monsters
a ladybird creeps
a kaleidoscope
dazzles on blue ceiling
another sun sets
John McMullan
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she spreads her fishnets
and is satisfied
he’s quite a catch
sunlight beckons
swim up
swim up
Dean Meredith
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dip of the oar
ripples the silver shimmer –
wavers reflections
tiered brown hills
spread to the horizon –
farmer’s furrowed brow
freshly ploughed
paddock all furrows
his hands
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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soft sweet berries
the old mans smile
full of gaps
warming the nest
strands of soft white hair
my old border collie
Liz Nicholls
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