Brass Bell June 2022
Theme: One line haiku
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lucid dreaming wild-eyed pansies glancing back and forth
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Note: All pansy pictures are taken from Pinterest. No specific photographers were listed.
Category Archives: one-line haiku
A nice surprise!
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What a very nice surprise! I am one of the top contributors to Prune Juice, a journal every haiku and senryu/kyoka poet knows and loves. What a thrill to be included with such excellent senryu poets.
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Many thanks to the great editors: Brent Goodman (current editor); past editors are: Steve Hodge (2016 – 2018); Terri L. French (2013 – 2015); Liam Wilkinson (2010 – 2012); Alexis Rotella ( 2009)
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Here’s a link to the whole anthology: pj-book-of-senryu
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The PRUNE JUICE BOOK of SENRYU celebrates 10 years of the finest English Senryu from around the world by 85 of our TOP Contributors, featuring 337 poems plucked from the journal’s first 29 issues by past and current Prune Juice editors.
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Here are mine that they published:
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Mary Kendall – USA
12 issues
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your tumor growing we worry about the snow
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#18 2016
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Reiki session . . .
feeling so
out of touch
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#20 2016
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beginner’s yoga class . . .
our first sun salutation
eclipsed by the teacher
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#22 2017
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promises not kept —
that umbrella you gave me
blows inside out
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#23 2017
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defined
by their parameters
love triangle
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#29 2019
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Prune Juice Book of Senryu: Celebrating 10 Years: 2009 – 2019 Copyright © 2020 Prune Juice
p. 94
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dreams lost in dreams . . . (three haiku)
Three haiku were also published in Presence, Issue #62, 2018:
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dreams lost in dreams wild poppies
Field of Poppies, Photographer Unknown
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“Snow” by gookingsword (Pixabay)
deep in winter
abandoned nests
and forgotten songs
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waking from a dream
the night winds
unsettle the moon
Photo by Kenrick Mills on Unsplash
Picking stars apart (two haiku)
Blithe Spirit, Journal of the British Haiku Society,
Volume 28 Number 4, November 2018
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picking stars apart one by one long winter nights
Milky Way by Felix Mittermeier
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summer mirage—
what childhood
might have been
Photo by Pezibear (Pixabay)
No second guessing
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how many times
can a stone skip
before sinking . . .
deep in my breast
a small lump appears
Unsplash by Linus Nylund
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no second guessing a kingfisher’s straight dive
Kingfisher and Irises by-Ohara Koson, The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland.
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leaves turning –
an old friendship
ends
Golden Tree by Mary Kendall
ephemerae,
an international of haikai, tanka & beyond
Volume 1, C: November 2018
My thanks to Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy for publishing two of my haiku and one tanka in the November issue of ephemerae.
Unwanted touch …
Presence Issue 61 (2018) / three haiku and one tanka:
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a shadow blocks the light unwanted touch
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washed up –
this broken shell
once sang the sea
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far above
old cotton fields –
migrating swans
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thin curls of wood
fly away
from the lathe –
his memory slips
away bit by bit
A Poet in Time 