nagging rain & wave lashings in THF’s Per Diem February feature
My two haiku in The Haiku Foundation’s ‘Haiku in the World’ February feature on the Philippines:
nagging rain
on the moon’s face…
a baby’s whimper
The Haiku Foundation Per Diem, February 9, 2015
‘Haiku in the World’ February feature: The Philippines
Per Diem Archive on The Haiku Foundation Website, and the Haiku App
wave lashings—
with every breath
the shore yields
The Haiku Foundation Per Diem, February 1, 2015
‘Haiku in the World’ February feature: The Philippines
Per Diem Archive on The Haiku Foundation Website, and the Haiku App
As you could surmise, both haiku rise from images of natural disasters which had wrought much havoc and suffering in the Philippines these recent years. In the distance, and the years I have lived in Canada, every face in each calamity transports me back home with the same intensity as if I were there and the same emotions and fears rise again as implied in these two haiku.
sae foam (my tanka last year at Eucalypt)
sea foam
withdraws from the shore . . .
unspoken
these longings
that return to their birth
Eucalypt 12 May 2012
a tanka journal
Qualicum Beach
summer souvenirs
haiku
1.
under a maple tree
robin struts alone
red-eyed
2.
stones on the shore
spell out words–
i pick dots in the i’s
3.
on the water
full moon halves the bay
we hold hands
I give myself $500 each for these summer souvenirs.