A lovely surprise today when I found out that eight haiku I wrote were published in the online journal, Under the Bashō 2016, in the Modern Haiku category. I was also fortunate enough to have two one-line haiku also published in the One Line category, plus one in the Poets’ Personal Best category.

My thanks to editors Kala Ramesh, Johannes S.H. Berg and editor-in-chief, Don Baird.

The links to the journal:

Modern Haiku category:  http://underthebasho.com/2016-issue/modern-haiku/1798-kendall,-mary.html

One Line haiku category:  http://underthebasho.com/2016-issue/one-line-haiku/1759-kendall,-mary.html

Poets’ Personal Best category:  http://underthebasho.com/2016-issue/one-line-haiku/1759-kendall,-mary.html

The poems:

Modern Haiku category:

hospice –
rubbing lotion
into her still hands

bitten nails . . . 
holding the pain
in her hands

 
worry beads –
one by one I parse
your silence

 
nightshade –
the smoothness
of an aubergine

lonely night –
even the moon
looks around

darkening forest –
a wood thrush
begins to sing

chance of a lifetime –
my finger in front
of the lens

unable to swallow
childhood memories
rise up

One Line haiku category:

lone tricycle blue in the whirlwind of leaves

burnt butter that morning in Provence

Poets’ Personal Best:

hospice . . .
a glimpse of moonlight
on the bed

                                      The Heron’s Nest – June, 2016   (originally published)