December 2016
Selection Panel: Coral Carter, Amanda Joy & Gary De Piazzi
Submissions Manager: Gary De Piazzi
The haiku selectors would like to thank Meryl Manoy for her past contributions to Creatrix and welcome Coral Carter to the selection panel.
Contributors:
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first frost
wraps colourful leaves –
Christmas
Hanoch K Guy
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news in English
asking for interpretation
Education Minister
Shankar Maanji Pillai
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to-do list
longer
in summer light
Peter Jastermsky
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summer heat –
along the high wall
track of a snail
Minh-Triêt PHAM, Paris, France
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crickets everywhere
old dog flicks an ea
and goes back to sleep
ayaz daryl nielsen, United States
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sea and sky
the horizontal edge
between lovers
today’s thoughts
on yesterday
I miss the train
ducks and swans –
an argument
across the lake
Gary Colombo De Piazzi
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beach pebble
still warm at dusk
her smooth callus
John Hawkhead, UK
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first snow
two leaves on birch
still yellow
Gennady Novoseltsev
C уважением, геннадий новосельцев
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winter sun –
unopened holiday offers
by a white bed
fireflies –
one light on
at her home
Ashish Narain, Delhi, India
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tombstones
my mother’s liliacs
full of rain
Goran Gatalica, Croatia
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city marathon
I am overtaken
by a plastic bottle
a seagull’s flight
I make an ensō
with my head
new moon
above the abandoned yard
so many grapes
spring parade
a bee tastes
my origami rose
Vessislava Savova, Sofia, Bulgaria
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rain
the arc
of an umbrella
Ramesh Anand, Bengaluru, India.
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a Pink Lady
peeks through green leaves –
blushes
Lysa Collins
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tree pose
on the sand
a one-legged seagull
Tash Adams
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ginko walk
the path barricaded
with debris
sunshine
on winter-white skin –
lichen-clad rocks
Nathalie Buckland, Nimbin, NSW
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drifting snow
I follow a stray cat
into the pub
David He Zhuanglang No. 1 High School Gansu Province China
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summer’s end
a line of seashells
on the windowsill
Chen-ou Liu
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new neighbours
slam crash bang
blue light
the tall man reads poems
to a small audience
Jan Napier
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view to the airport
a fly on the window
as big as a plane
Quendryth Young, Alstonsville NSW
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a line of foam
edges my coffee cu
beach cafe
Jan Dobb, Canberra, ACT
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the possum’s bum
sticks out of the hollow
display home
family tree –
I scrape bird poo
off the swing
Louise Hopewell, Melbourne
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in the old cage
the parrot –
nothing new to say
Julian O’Dea, Canberra
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first date –
her bracelet talking
more than her
Aparna Pathak, (India)
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cat’s ears
all movement
listening to the grass
Simon Hanson, Australia
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strobing sunlight
the squeak and wobble
of the windmill
Gavin Austin, Sydney. Australia
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masturbation –
being faithful
to myself
Myron Lysenko
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catch and release
the fat moon wriggles
off my line
Debbie Strange, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Canada
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after ten years
I saw you by the river’s
last bend twisting
Duncan Richardson, Australia
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lazy river
a dragonfly settles
on the fisherman’s line
Cynthia Rowe
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burgeoning clouds –
this middle-age spread
too hard to shift
Samantha Sirimanne Hyde
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birthday –
red twilight fills
the empty vase
Lavana Kray, Romania
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brief dalliance
my opal pendant
winks
Martha Magenta, England, UK
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shaded window
still the sunlight
finds a way in
Christina Sng, Singapore
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stone wall gathers moss
Meryl Manoy
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curve of dawnlight
my baby spooned
into me
Sanjuktaa Asopa, India
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the shadow
of a dead moth
dancing
Rajandeep Garg
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morning after
the creak
of an empty swing
Debbi Antebi
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school fight –
the little ones make up
their own swear words
Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy, Birmingham, U.K.
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