June 2015
Selectors: Amanda Joy, Meryl Manoy, Rose van Son and Gary De Piazzi
Submissions Manager: Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
Archana Kapoor
Ramesh Anand
Julian O’Dea
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
Earl Livings
Aparna Pathak
Anthony Rutledge
Mojgan Soghrati
David Serjeant
Cynthia Rowe
Helen Taylor
Julia Gross
Devin Harrison
Simon Hanson
Tash Adams
Carl Seguiban
Arvinder Kaur
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
Gautam Nadkarni
Duncan Richardson
Sandra Martyres
Virginie Colline
Kanchan Chatterjee
Rose van Son
Meryl Manoy
Margaret Ferrell
Jayashree Maniyil
Matt Hetherington
Samar Ghose
Ruby Michael
Kumarendra Mallick
fall equinox –
surfing over these waves
the harvest moon
between
me and the rainbow
a monarch butterfly
Archana Kapoor, Nagpal, Bangalore. India
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Peak hour –
a flock of sparrows pass
the evening moon
______ Honorable mention, International Matsuo Bashō Award 2014.
slow day
the old topics
circled
______ Selected Haiku Submissions Collection, 6th Yamadera Basho
______ Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest 2014.
Ramesh Anand, Bagalore, India
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rock pool –
breathing
the sea
afternoon of
a long summer –
nodding grass
Julian O’Dea, Canberra
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rose petals
shed one after the other
her dreams
stick insect
on a twig rocking
the wind
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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at first
an apple blossom –
white butterfly
after the funeral –
the first daffodil
he will never see
under forestry pines –
old mountains
old language
Earl Livings
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I offer prayers
under sun
basil grows
Aparna Pathak, Delhi India
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beekeeper
how sealed the sun is
in his row of jars
buds over all
coming through the garden
daughter and friends
Anthony Rutledge
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just airplanes
instead of colourful kites –
spring sky
Mojgan Soghrati, Isfahan. Iran
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house party
I catch the eye
of the garden Buddha
beyond the horizon the long low thunder
sick leave
all day watching
the window spider
top down
the convertible driver’s
balding head
David Serjeant, UK
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cumulonimbus –
under my umbrella
gathering mushrooms
starting over
I plant acacia where
the honeysuckle was
school excursion –
the many shades
of bougainvillea
Cynthia Rowe
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yesterdays
mailed letter
today more to say
hair across her face
she turns
into the wind
Helen Taylor
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night boatman
shines a light
frog eyes shine back
Julia Gross
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after heavy rain
my direction shimmering
in the puddles
Devin Harrison, Vancouver Island, Canada
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end of season
a few ragged leeks
seed an acre
Simon Hanson
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corrugated ceiling
light through the slow turn
of the fan
Tash Adams
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darkness everywhere a firefly
unsteady waters –
our ship’s stern balancing
the horizon
Carl Seguiban
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silent spaces –
the jazz of her fingers
on the sitar
soap bubbles –
a rainbow glides off
my palm
Arvinder Kaur,Chandigarh,India
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autumn shadow
the tall and thin man
I never was
Raamesh Gowri Raghavan
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Labour Day
the pause as a spider
weaves its web
Gautam Nadkarni
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waiting
watching the pulse
of a silkworm
Duncan Richardson
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clothesline –
her billowing nightie blocks
neighbour’s prying eyes
Sandra Martyres
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kids spreadeagled
on the red roundabout
June kaleidoscope
Virginie Colline, France
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sprouting
from the cracked curb –
summer grass
walkers track –
more fallen wisterias
than yesterday
Kanchan Chatterjee. Jamshedpur. India
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waterfall
the gallery full
of stars
______ published in Three Owls and a Crescent Moon by Rose van Son
killed in action
the tree his mother planted
blooms
______ published paper wasp 19 (2) 2013
Rose van Son
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ripples on lake
old man’s wrinkles
Meryl Manoy
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deep snow
our feet crunch
the silence
Margaret Ferrell
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lakeside breeze –
a maple leaf lands
on the moon
Jayashree Maniyil
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office clothes
but her feet
in sand
full moon –
waves coming up
the steps
setting sun –
pulling down my cap
Matt Hetherington
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thunderheads
– power lines slicing
the lull
dusk sky
river reeds brush
the summer moon
Samar Ghose
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peacock display
a peahen eats grass
in the shade
Ruby Michael, Melbourne
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setting sun –
the shadow of the clouds
in the fisherman’s net
the day of mourning –
a host of mynahs assemble
on the tree top
______ Following the deadly Nepal earthquake 2015 the birds,
______ in large groups, were often seen on tree tops.
Kumarendra Mallick. Hyderabad, India
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