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Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, volume 1:2; Spring/Summer 2018

6/10/2018

 
 Welcome to the Spring/Summer issue of Autumn Moon Haiku Journal. I want to thank all those who submitted haiku to the first volume of this journal and want to express my appreciation of the quality of your work. I am doing research for a lecture that may justify the reliance on kigo (season word) in traditional Japanese haiku. All societies have constructed their cultures with reference to the natural world in representational and figurative approaches, including their gods and goddesses in what has been called The Flower World. The majority of the submitted haiku in Volume 1 have expressed the authors’ poetic sensibilities  with some reference to this world, using images such as almond blossoms, the moon, mosquitoes, oak trees, sunlight, crows, swallows, catfish, peepers, other frogs, lily of the valley, clover, autumn leaves, winter stars, clouds, the summer solstice, spring rain. Supporting the relation of the seasons and seasonal activities to poetic and artistic expression, including the kigo of haiku, is the fact that the landscape is possibly the most depicted subject in painting and the floral still life also is vastly popular. Perhaps much world poetry has in fact focused on the natural world and the feelings generated by it (and criticized as merely “birds and flowers”). Our poetic sensibilities through heightened moments in nature, with family and friends, in seasonal celebrations, and through memories and reveries evoke our simplest yet deepest experience of our world. Haiku is significant as a poetic form because it expresses these moments and is strongly based on the kigo which are clearly related to The Flower World and our seasonal worldwide cultural realities. The submitted haiku were chosen in relation to how poetically and originally they express these significant moments.    
 
                                                                                                                                     Bruce Ross, June 2018      
 
 
                                                  Haiku
 
 
emerging
from the bamboo thicket
crow moon
 
papasulpot
mula sa kawayanan
bilugang buwan
 
            Billy Antonio, Philippines
 
                                                                                                                                                 tasting
                                                                                                                                                sunrise
                                                                                                                                         pink hyacinths
 
                                                                                                                                                            Susan Auld, USA
 
 
                                   
                                                         after the rain the scent of rain water lilies
 
                                                                                                                 Gabriel Bates, USA
 
a lull
between cicadas . . .
morning heat
 
            Mark Brager, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                 rainy spring night
                                                                                                                                        her yellowed goodbye note
                                                                                                                                        slightly damp
 
                                                                                                                                                                         Ed Bremson, USA
 
ruffles of air
against my bare arms
summer morning
 
            Dawn Bruce, Australia
 
 
                                                                           snowmelt scattered snowdrops
 
                                                                                                                    Helen Buckingham, UK
 
my whistle
and the bewick wren’s
suddenly summer
 
            Alanna C. Burke, USA
 
                                                                                                                                        spring
                                                                                                                                               unfurling
                                                                                                                                       the mountain fern
 
                                                                                                                                       rainy season
                                                                                                                                       a farmer hums
                                                                                                                                              with the frogs
 
                                                                                                                                                             Matthew Caretti, Malawi
 
indigo veil­ -
the tart sweetness
of a plum
 
            Anna Cates, USA
 
                                                                                                                                       lighting up
                                                                                                                                       the temple courtyard
                                                                                                                                       almond blossoms
 
                                                         rice seedlings darkening spring rain
 
                                                                                                                                  Sonam Chhoki, Bhutan
 
last cloud
in the sky - the blue
of the mountains
 
            Meagan Collins, USA
 
                                                                                                                                        ivy planted
                                                                                                                                        in an old china cup
                                                                                                                                        her last garden
 
                                                                                                                                                                    Sue Colpitts, Canada
 
 
                                                    dry rookery branch two spoonbills clacking beaks
 
                                                                                                               Bill Cooper, USA
 
summer night
I step outside to check the moon
then head back in
 
            Ronald K. Craig, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                    sudden cloud
                                                                                                                                                    out of the garden barrel
                                                                                                                                                    drains moonlight
 
                                                                                                                                                     iznenadni oblak
                                                                                                                                                     iz vrtne bačve otječe
                                                                                                                                                     mjesečina
 
                                                                                                                                                             Mihovila Čeperić-Biljan, Croatia
 
jarred fireflies
the full moon rising
through pines
 
            Mark Dailey, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                 morning prayer
                                                                                                                                                 flowers of spring join
                                                                                                                                         the chorus
 
                                                                                                                                                                  Basanta Kumar Das, India
 
Full moon:
Inside the alcatraz flower
a cricket chirps
 
Luna llena:
Dentro de la flor alcatraz
estridula un grillo.
 
Sunset fog:
In the crack of the rock
a jasmine has blossomed.
 
Niebla de ocaso:
En la grieta de la roca
ha florecido un jazmin.
 
Elías Dávila Silva, Mexico
 
                                                                                                                                      moon cakes
                                                                                                                                      a mouthful of sweetness
                                                                                                                                      on Buddha’s birthday
 
                                                                                                                                                                  Angelee Deodhar, India
 
swallows fly -
in my memories
another spring
 
rondini in volo -
un’altra primavera
nei miei ricordi                       
 
            Rosa Maria Di Salvatore, Italy
 
                                                                                                                                                 our black cat
                                                                                                                                                 opens her yellow eyes
                                                                                                                                                  jonquil bed
 
                                                                                                                                                             Jan Dobb, Australia
 
spring equinox
a spider’s web
catches the sun
 
            Tom Drescher, Canada
 
                                                                                   Wildflowers,
                                                                            also on the graves
                                                                                          Spring.
 
                                                                                 Flores silvestres,
                                                                        también sobre las tumbas
                                                                                    la primavera.
 
                                                                                        Nap time.
                                                                        The wood pigeon’s trill
                                                                                      in solitude.
 
                                                                                   Hora de siesta.
                                                                             Un canto de torcaza
                                                                                       en soledad.
           
                                                                                                 Juan Carlos Durilén, Argentina
 
cloud shadows
a herd of buffalo
moves to fresh grass
 
            Garry Eaton, Canada
 
                                                                                                                                                we wait,
                                                                                                                                        the daimon seed and i,
                                                                                                                                                for planting
 
                                                                                                                                                         Donna Fleischer, USA
 
did you call me?
oh no, it is only
spring wind
 
wołałeś mnie?
och nie, to tylko
wiosenny wiatr
 
            Małgorzata Formanowska, Poland
 
                                                                                                                                        wild wind
                                                                                                                                        the fruity sage waving
                                                                                                                                         a wattlebird
 
                                                                                                                                                          Lorin Ford, Australia
 
summer cabin
the frogs chant full matins
across the lake
 
            Robert Forsythe, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                 Summer sun.
                                                                                                                                          The different blues,
                                                                                                                                                    of the Caribbean Sea.
 
                                                                                                                                                   Sol de verano.
                                                                                                                                                   Los distintos azules,
                                                                                                                                                   del Mar Caribe.
 
                                                                                                                                                                Edmundo M. García Terrero,
                                                                                                                                          Dominican Republic
 
If the friendly mosquitoes
kept quiet.
Oh, early morning.
 
Si los amables
mosquitos se callaran.
Oh madrugada.
 
            Rafael García Bidó, Dominican Republic
 
                                                                                                                                                 spring pilgrimage -
                                                                                                                                                 first cherry blossoms
                                                                                                                                         in mother’s sandals
 
                                                                                                                                                  proljetno hodočašće -
                                                                                                                                                   prvi cvjetovi trešnje
                                                                                                                                                   u majčinim sandalama
 
                                                                                                                                                                   Goran Gatalica, Croatia
 
final eclipse
my eyes become accustomed
to the silence
 
summer shadows
the growing space
between galaxies
 
            Mark Gilbert, UK
 
                                                                                                                                        at sunset
                                                                                                                                                 the black crows rise up -
                                                                                                                                                 ripe wheat
 
                                                                                                                                                 al crepusculo
                                                                                                                                         s’alzano i corvi neri -
                                                                                                                                         grano maturo
 
                                                                                                                                                                     Angela Giordano, Italy
 
Like a beautiful
painting, the orchard’s fruit:
Asian pears.
 
Hermoso cuadro
exhibe el rojo pomar:
peras de arena.
 
                              Alexis Gómez Rosa, Dominican Republic
                             (trans. Elizabeth H. Lara)
 
 
                                                                                                  peepers
                                                                                                  the night loses
                                                                                                  its chill
 
                                                                                                            LeRoy Gorman, Canada
 
 
                                                                                                                                         sultry summer night -
                                                                                                                                                  a woman on the beach
                                                                                                                                         talking to the Moon
 
                                                                                                                                         sparna ljetna noć -
                                                                                                                                                  žena na plaži
                                                                                                                                                  razgovara s Mjesecom
 
                                                                                                                                                 Danijela Grbelja, Croatia
 
dreaming of colours
yet to come
wildflower seed
 
            Simon Hanson, Australia
 
                                                                                                                                                 gentle rain
                                                                                                                                                 my palms open
                                                                                                                                                 with a prayer
 
                                                                                                                                                               Tia Haynes, USA
 
tying a knot
in the grass blade
midsummer
 
            John Hawk, USA
 
                                                                                                                                         spring rain
                                                                                                                                         the cherry petal tea
                                                                                                                                                  of my childhood
 
                                                                                                                                                  春之雨
                                                                                                                                                  我童年的
                                                                                                                                                  樱桃花茶
 
                                                                                                                                                      David He, People’s Republic of China
 
first spring spider
so busy
so very busy
 
初春のクモ あいそがしいいそがしな
 
(hatsuharu no kumo a isogashii isogashi na)
 
            Judith Hishikawa, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                  your footprint
                                                                                                                                                   with mine
                                                                                                                                                   trout lily rain
 
                                                                                                                                                  Jeff Hoagland, USA
 
the silence
of raked white pebbles -
a cicada shell
 
            Marilyn Humbert, Australia
 
                                                                                                                                        a koel calls . . .
                                                                                                                                                you query my accent
                                                                                                                                                yet again
 
                                                                                                                                                      Samantha Sirimanne Hyde, Australia
 
sugar moon
our walk
made sweeter
 
mbalamwezi    
matembezi yetu 
yawa murua zaidi
 
Mercy Ikuri, Kenya
 
                                                                                                                                                using his cane
                                                                                                                                                a farmer tries to count
                                                                                                                                                playful lambs
 
                                                                                                                                                    Jeanne Jorgensen, Canada
 
this year
I won’t be weeding -
first dandelion
 
            Christopher Jupp, UK
 
                                                                                                                                         still clear
                                                                                                                                         through the smokey air -
                                                                                                                                         the robin’s song
 
                                                                                                                                                                Skylar Kay, Canada
 
pine trees blurred
by wisteria and rain
vernal equinox
 
redbud sapling
the squirrel
stares back
 
            Craig Kittner, USA
 
                                                                                                                                          late spring
                                                                                                                                                   an empty hanging basket
                                                                                                                                                   swings by the front door
 
                                                                                                                                                                            kjmunro, Canada
 
rainbow
over rolling hills
California poppy
 
            Deborah P Kolodji, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                 by a ruined house
                                                                                                                                                 a crow collects twigs
                                                                                                                                        for its nest
 
                                                                                                                                                 kraj srušene kuće  
                                                                                                                                                vrana skuplja grančice 
                                                                                                                                                za gnijezdo
 
                                                                                                                                               spring rain
                                                                                                                                               I feel it to my bones
                                                                                                                                       through the walls
 
                                                                                                                                       proljetnu kišu    
                                                                                                                                               osjećam do kostiju  
                                                                                                                                               kroz zidove  
           
                                                                                                                                                               Nina Kovačić, Croatia
                                                                                                                                                              (trans. by Đurđa Vukelić Rožić)
 
 
 
foxgloves
the many kinds of woman
in me
 
            Jessica Malone Latham, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                 summer kiss
                                                                                                                                                 the blue expanse
                                                                                                                                                 in her eyes
 
                                                                                                                                                 夏日初吻
                                                                                                                                                 在她的眼中
                                                                                                                                                一片天藍
 
                                                                                                                                                                 Chen-ou Liu, Canada
 
sunlight
fills the millstone’s furrows
trilling pine warblers
 
            paul m., USA
 
                                                                                                                                                  summer heat
                                                                                                                                                  a willow dips its roots
                                                                                                                                                  in the river
 
                                                                                                                                                                       Martha Magenta, UK
 
oak in spring
lifting the light
from a river
 
            Michael McClintock, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                  a collie’s muzzle
                                                                                                                                                 more mud than dog
                                                                                                                                                 spring rain
 
                                                                                                                                                 reluctantly,
                                                                                                                                                 early retirement . . .
                                                                                                                                                 crocuses in snow
 
                                                                                                                                                                   Marietta McGregor, Australia
 
 
birdsong
the weight of footsteps
on a forest path
 
            Andy McLellan, UK
 
                                                                                                                                                hollyhock
                                                                                                                                                blossoms enough
                                                                                                                                                for a summer doll
 
                                                                                                                                                                    Connie R Meester, USA
 
All about,
uphill, downhill
. . . the amancay! *
 
            (*South American wild daffodils, growing on the Andean slopes)
 
Donde se mire,
cerro arriba, cerro abajo,
. . . los amancay!
 
            Lía Miersch, Argentina
 
                                                                                                                                         mid summer
                                                                                                                                                  the school child’s picture
                                                                                                                                                  under a smiling sun
           
                                                                                                                                                            Mac Miller, New Zealand
 
                                   
                                                    spring crush fiddlehead ferns for the first time
 
                                                                                                                       Beverly Acuff Momoi, USA
 
longest day-
what to do with
all this light?
 
            Joanne Morcom, Canada
 
                                                                                                                                         summer dusk,
                                                                                                                                         a pelican landing
                                                                                                                                         splinters the lagoon
 
                                                                                                                                                  without a sound
                                                                                                                                         it emerges from its shell-
                                                                                                                                                  cicada
 
                                                                                                                                                            Leanne Mumford, Australia
 
April noon
the library silence returns me
to my breath
 
            Timothy Murphy, Ireland/Spain
 
                                                                                                                                          trees in full bloom
                                                                                                                                          the cuckoo I used to see
                                                                                                                                                   now I only hear
 
                                                                                                                                                                  Indra Neil Mekala, India
 
shifting wind
the coyote’s raised foreleg
motionless
 
            ayaz daryl nielsen, USA        
 
                                                                                                                                                 summer solstice
                                                                                                                                                 rust on the edge
                                                                                                                                                 of a horse chestnut leaf
 
                                                                                                                                                 poletni solsticij
                                                                                                                                                  rja na robovih
                                                                                                                                                  lista kostanja
 
 
                                                             a gap in the clouds changing into rain
 
                                                                vrzel v oblakih se spreminja v dež     
 
 
                                                                                                                               Polona Oblak, Slovenia
 
the smell of spring
in my shoes -
lily of the valley
 
            Precious Oboh, Nigeria
 
                       
                                                  without you the gold spring moon just a moon
 
                                                                                                                  Marian Olson, USA
 
listening
to all the colors . . .
spring fever
 
            Victor Ortiz, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                  bowed branch -
                                                                                                                                                  a kid lends his walking stick
                                                                                                                                                  to his grandma
 
                                                                                                                                                                          Pravat Kumar Padhy, India
 
from the clothes line
a string of dew
scattered by a finch
 
            Sarah Paul, UK
 
                                                                                                                                                   summer twilight -
                                                                                                                                                   the waves washing over
                                                                                                                                                    the traces of her steps
 
                                                                                                                                                    hoàng hôn mùa hè -
                                                                                                                                                     những cơn sóng trôi qua
                                                                                                                                                     dấu chân em
 
                                                                                                                                                      crépuscule d'été -
                                                                                                                                                      les vagues emportent
                                                                                                                                                      les traces de ses pas
 
                                                                                                                                                                          Minh-Triět Pham, France
 
lilly pilly hedge
twilight eases into
our conversation
 
            Madhuri Pillai, Australia
 
                                                                                                                                         birdsong . . .
                                                                                                                                                 beyond drying sheets
                                                                                                                                                 dad’s marigolds
 
                                                                                                                                                                   Marion Alice Poirier, USA
 
in the vineyard . . .
a mouth full of grapes
the fox
 
            Keith Polette, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                 summer night
                                                                                                                                                 my restlessness shapes
                                                                                                                                                 the sleeping cat
 
                                                                                                                                                                            Sandi Pray, USA
 
spring rain
a woman holds her burqa
close to her figure
 
            Patricia Prime, New Zealand
 
                                                                                                                                                                violets in bloom
                                                                                                                                                                 an old woman
                                                                                                                                                                 gives me the eye
 
                                                                                                                                                                                          John Quinnett, USA
 
                                                                                    spring fog
                                                                                    the brightness
                                                                                    of lemons
 
                                                                                                         Dian Duchin Reed, USA
 
                                                                                               
warmer days
a sudden chill
from childhood
 
dyddiau cynhesach
ias annisgwyl
o 'mhlentyndod
 
rising finally
into another future
fritillary
 
o'r diwedd yn codi
i ddyfodol arall
brith-y-gors
 
            John Rowlands, Wales
 
                                                                                                                                                a second date
                                                                                                                                                he promises me
                                                                                                                                                a green Moon
 
                                                                                                                                                 drugi čvenik
                                                                                                                                                 obećava mi
                                                                                                                                                 zeleni mjesec
 
                                                                                                                                                                  Đurđa Vukelić Rožić, Croatia
 
no stars tonight
the mist of the coast
at rice planting
 
            Miriam Sagan, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                  a field full
                                                                                                                                                  of kids’ shadows
                                                                                                                                                  summer’s end
 
                                                                                                                                                  dreaming
                                                                                                                                                  of an alternate life
                                                                                                                                                  summer stars
                                   
                                                                                                                                                                         Agnes Eva Savich, USA
 
billowing
the bedroom curtains out
spring breeze
 
de son souffle
le printemps fait onduler
les rideaux de la chambre
 
            Olivier Schopfer, Switzerland
 
                                                                                                                                                origami
                                                                                                                                                her lost letter
                                                                                                                                                unfolding
           
                                                                                                                                                                      Sudebi Singha, India
 
                                                                            August night
                                                               atop Mont Sainte Anne
                                                                           shooting stars
 
                                                                                                  Robert Spice, USA


                                                                                                                                                 crescent moon
                                                                                                                                                 your silver bracelet
                                                                                                                                                 beside the bed
 
                                                                                                                                                                      Susan Spooner, Canada
 
summer snow . . .
mayflies swarm above
the river
 
            Debbie Strange, Canada
 
                                                                                                                                                 breeze on young leaves . . .
                                                                                                                                                 a stray dog pawed the future
                                                                                                                                                 and left
           
                                                                                                                                                                              Kyle Sullivan, Taiwan
 
spring equinox
the morepork’s call
unanswered
 
first flower
on the pohutukawa -
red sunset
 
            Andre Surridge, New Zealand
 
                                                                                                                                                spring rain
                                                                                                                                                a child jumps
                                                                                                                                                from cloud to cloud
 
                                                                                                                                                                      Rachel Sutcliffe, UK
 
misty rain
the tulips refuse
to bloom
 
            Christine Taylor, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                 clover
                                                                                                                                         the girl makes a bouquet
                                                                                                                                         for her doll’s wedding
 
                                                 お人形のウエディングブーケはしろつめくさの花
                                             (oningyo no wedding bouquet wa shirotsumekusa no hana)
                                                                                                                                                                 Norie Umeda, Japan
 
summer breeze
billowing the curtains
scent of resin
 
door het open raam
brengt het zomerbriesje
een lome harsgeur
 
            Steven Van Der Heyden, Belgium
 
                                                                                                                                                new home insomnia . . .
                                                                                                                                               our apricot tree
                                                                                                                                                has bloomed
 
                                                                                                                                                 insomnie de casă nouă . . .
                                                                                                                                                 caisul nostru
                                                                                                                                                 a înflorit
 
                                                                                                                                                              Steliana Cristina Voicu, Romania
 
garden planted . . .
the scarecrow touches
his sleeve to mine
 
            Marilyn Appl Walker, USA
 
                                                                                                                                                 a beetle
                                                                                                                                                 carries his piece of light
                                                                                                                                                 into a rosebud
 
                                                                                                                                                                     Robert Witmer, USA/Japan
 
summer solstice
the weight
of light
 
            Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff, USA


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