by Helen Ivory | Aug 30, 2014 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Three Haiku Diplomats can have a mango or a sorrel never a jack-fruit. * A flower gets its beauty and fragrance from a blissful heart. * Two pockets transact hidden export and import under a table. Pijush Kanti Deb is an Associate...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 23, 2014 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Three Haiku under pond ice colored maple leaves- candy brittle * dawn song- the Alsation catches a red ball in mid air * sunset- my long shadow lost within the trees Angelee Deodhar is an eye surgeon by profession, and a haiku poet and...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 6, 2014 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
20 Haiku and Senryu The candles glimmer, The tables are paved with wax: We’ll be buried soon Where is the wildlife? Oh I forgot – it’s London. We are the wildlife A stuffed fox for lunch? But it’s just a cabinet In a...
by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2014 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Haiku dad used to say one day, you’ll understand – now I understand * bald hitchhiker writing poems on velvet – low calorie Buddah * my parents – angels I tarred and feathered * i am familiar with the sound of your...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 27, 2014 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* autumn sky patches of twilight in the falling leaf * distant hill a river carrying the spring * peak hour . . . a flock of sparrows pass the evening moon * sun bath an eagle circles the day moon * rainbow season warmth and coldness in me ...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 20, 2013 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
A Photo from the Fifties snow globe shaking up a new maelstrom watching it settle Overnight, a snowstorm has claimed our town. The neighbor’s houses and yards are coated. Snow swallows the old DeSoto. No one’s outside except my father, sister, and two...
