by Helen Ivory | Mar 15, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Haiku * small boy under his feet skyscraper shadows * kitchen table at the master’s place a tiny spider * evening forest not quite big enough for all the shadows * Samo Kreutz lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Besides haiku (which...
by Memoona Zahid | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Winter solstice 2020 13/12/2020 dream haiku small hours of Sunday morning family’s little strength guarded for mourning 17/12/2020 still growing on old apple tree— mistletoe 21/12/2020 the peanut feeder disappears — flap of crows...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2020 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
5 Haiku Origami cradle songs on the drive home… my empty womb * my mother’s knitted sweaters- I unravel knots * tears- water raining into an empty cup * drifting snowflakes- I restore the fragile lace of my wedding veil * encounters- his world is shaped by her...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2020 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Haiku in the hope of an easing of lockdown Sunrise early May all flame and pale duck egg blue; Clouds of lilac grey Just before sunrise – a muted bloom of russet On the chilly ground Above the skyline blazing – the risen sun like a young god Tree trunks...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 7, 2020 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
* you gone I dream I’m chasing darkness through our castle * souvenir scarf in ocean-green I wrap Australia around my neck * alone on a foreign shore silver gulls dine with me Yvonne Amey received her MFA from the University of...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2020 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
* sparrows at work on the skylight * laptops sending handshakes from kitchen table * edges of dawn.. goodbyes litter sidewalks * internet dooms day scrolling in lockdown Gopal Lahiri is a Kolkata- based bilingual poet, critic,...
