H  A  I  K  U     S  P  I  R  I  T
Helen  Buckingham




breakfast shift
...sharing the last
of the stars
 
 
 
[Acorn # 12, Spring 2004]
[Runner-up, The Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Award 2004]   
 
 
 
 
 
lunch in the courtyard--
cherry blossom obscuring
the hands of the clock
 
 
 
[Runner-up, 57th Basho Festival Association Award 2003]
 
 
 
 
 
Eastertide...
   passing fields
       of numbered lambs
 
 
 
[The Heron's Nest # 6.6, June 2004]
 
 
 
 
 
Ascension Day...
pastry crumbs
for the bird-table
 
 
 
[The Heron's Nest # 8.3, September 2006]
 
 
 
 
 
City dusk...
a single grey
balloon
 
 
 
[Roadrunner # 6.2, May 2006]
 
 
 
 
 
rounding the corner
...sunlight
on the scaffolding
 
 
 
[The Mainichi Daily News, March 2004]
 
 
 
 
 
dozing
by the radio...
another Hottest Day
 
 
 
[Modern Haiku # 35.3, Autumn 2004]
 
 
 
 
 
Indian summer
another half-cup
left in the flask
 
 
 
[Roadrunner # 6.4, November 2006]
[big sky: The Red Moon Anthology 2006]
 
 
 
 
 
hungover bath
...locating
that wasp
 
 
 
[Mayfly, July 2005]
 
 
 
 
 
summer's end:
returning home
to shadows
 
 
 
[The Heron's Nest # 6.11, December 2004]
 
 
 
 
 
still life:
the pear's
pitted skin
 
 
 
[Frogpond # 29.1, January 2006]
 
 
 
 
 
All Souls'
a wasp returns
to the lintel
 
 
 
[The Heron's Nest # 8.1, March 2006]
 
 
 
 
 
remembrance...
     two seagulls arc together
                wheel apart
 
 
 
[Runner-up, The BHS James Hackett Award 2005]
 
 
 
 
 
radio off...rain
without
interference
 
 
 
[Birmingham Words # 1, May 2006]
 
 
 
 
 
morning
after the storm:
an upturned bin
 
 
 
[Presence # 13, January 2001]
 
 
 
 
 
steam-filled market
 mistletoe tethered
    to a meat-hook
 
 
 
[Finalist, National League of American Pen Women (Palomar Branch) Int. Haiku Contest 2005]
[Runner-up, The Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Award 2005]
 
 
 
 
 
church cactus
   observing
its own advent
 
 
 
[Roadrunner # 7.1, February 2007]
 
 
 
 
 
Christmas lunch
--passing round
the festive chestnuts
 
 
 
[The Mainichi Daily News, December 2005]     
 
 
 
 
 
New Year's fireworks--
waking again
with the dog
 
 
 
[The Heron's Nest # 8.2, June 2006]               
 
 
 
 
 
moving day...
    bruises
       in the snow             
 
 
 
[Acorn # 15, Autumn 2005]







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