December 2015
Selectors: Rose van Son, Meryl Manoy & Gary De Piazzi
Contributors:
last day of winter
a cabbage moth lands
on a monarch
pmt
he butters my toast
cautiously
the quiet
of our baby’s breath
library noises
Jade Pisani. Woodend. Vic.
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icy wind ‒
a fallen leaf changes
the pond
my first safari –
on a banyan tree
a lone bird
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
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river
at headwaters
– a babbling infant
Aparna Pathak. India
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tai chi demonstration
shadows become
one
pencilled
in the book margin
my haiku
Christmas countdown
the tic tic tic
of cicadas
Tash Adams
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twilight traffic –
the moon finding its way
through clouds
Vandana Parashar. Sri-Ganganagar India
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one umbrella
the only shade
on the beach
a winking light
atop the crane
first star
Jan Napier
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summer breeze
the taste of watermelon
on her lips
dune shadow
a foot
from the hot sand
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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tug of the tide
a goat’s foot vine
grips the dune
water pooling
into the knothole
another leaf falls
weathered stump
one toadstool piggybacks\
another
cross-country run
an echidna snoozing
in a tree bole
Cynthia Rowe
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across millennia
the urge to touch
cave art
after rain
the slow drip
of the canopy
here and there
through the forest
moon river
Simon Hanson
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drifting over
the old cat’s grave
– fresh feathers
cloud of midges
just high enough
for my face
in the library
jumping for fiction
– a cricket
Duncan Richardson
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sardine fishing
on rivers edge
a fence of poles
Gail Willems
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watching
the watcher
magpie
Madhuri Pillai
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our argument –
a superb blue wren
in the fennel
Myron Lysenko
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bedside vigil –
dewdrops gather
on irises
forest hymn –
I pause the chainsaw
to hear the bees
white prairie –
wild horses
chasing their breaths
mid-winter nights –
the Arabica outscents
her no.5
Carl Seguiban. Canada
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writers talking –
the ferris wheel
goes round
Matt Hetherington
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a farmhand
uproots the last sod –
waning moon
poor signal
one by one, robins leave
the satelite dish
power outage –
the neighbouhood cicada
burst into song
Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian. Nigeria
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chalk outline –
fading memory
of myself
Pat Geyer
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winter morning –
the birds wade
through thick fog
Kumarendra Mallick. Hyderabad, India
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lunch on the river
three upturned
duck’s tails
bottle-brush trees
chinese lanterns adorn
the temple
Pop’s heart attack
the old gum tree
sways
Maureen Sexton
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