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seashores
an international journal to share the spirit of haiku

 

The objective of seashores is to share haiku from all over the world and explore how the way and the spirit of haiku, with its power to connect us to nature and our world can play a role in poetry and our lives in general.

 

ISSUE 12
April 2024

 

Contents

 

Contributors | Introduction | A bit of food for thought | Meet… Jim Kacian, and a selection of haiku by Jim Kacian

 

Essays and Articles

Two Afterthoughts by David Burleigh

Either-Or Haiku Editing: A Matching Contest Approach by Randy Brooks

 

The sources of haiku

Japanese haiku: the last 120 years (Chapter 2. 1940-1980)

The Kodansha Saijiki

     Summer: a few season words

 

 

Contributors

 

Selected haiku and senryu by:



 

Shari Abramson

my mother is gone

 

Paul atten Ash

sea of dust—

 

Joanna Ashwell

boxed in

 

Gavin Austin  

her garden seat

a twitch

 

Ingrid Baluchi

chopping block

 

Julie Bates

evening meditation

 

Michael Baeyens

river bend

thunder moving in

 

Roberta Beary

star    gaz    ing

decades spin

 

Mona Bedi

baby's bedtime --

 

Amanda Bell

golden quinces

a pause between waves –

 

Deborah A. Bennett

a mist

 

Jerome Berglund

morning rain

 

Daniel Birnbaum

this morning

 

Brigid Birney

emerald moss

 

Paul Bregazzi

first frost of the year

 

Randy Brooks

songbirds on barbwire

digging up

 

James Burke

slicing an egg-shell

 

Robyn Cairns

opening up

 

Pris Campbell

daddy, see!

 

Mariangela Canzi

light drizzle

 

Liam Carson

November sunset

blackbird’s song

 

Christina Chin

waves of small bird

tying the lace curtains

 

Jackie Chou

writing haiku

 

Glenda Cimino

walking on cold ground

visitors coming

 

Ria Collins

crackling stove

 

Timothy Daly

aunt’s cremation

 

Maya Daneva

leaving the bakery

 

Diana Davison

at dusk

 

Marie Derley

au parc d’Ueno

vieil agenda

 

C. Jean Downer

fog on snow

 

Ana Drobot

I throw a pebble

 

Tim Dwyer

sprouting leaves—

dark before bird song…

 

Gilles Fabre

sandy graveyard

 

Bill Fay

after the storm

 

Bruce H. Feingold

thickening of my heart

geese subspecies

 

Michael Flanagan

they stare down

 

Anton Floyd

a moon ship

 

Małgorzata Formanowska

spring wind

 

Jay Friedenberg

snowmelt

 

Ben Gaa

evening walk

knowing how

how they cut

 

William Scott Galasso

in the shadow

 

David Gale

cross-over moon

 

Michael J. Galko

switchbacks

 

Mike Gallagher

old tapestries

 

Goran Gatalica

morning sun

 

Nicholas Gentile

landing on white ground

 

John Gonzalez

the river darkens -

hospice ward

 

Benedict Grant

wake

hospice visit

night drawing in

 

Orla Grant-Donoghue

planting spring bulbs

 

Eufemia Griffo

low tide

 

Ian Gwin

fir branches whip

 

Austin Oting Har

Thanksgiving end

 

John Hawkhead

our initials carved

 

Jeremy Haworth

in the headlights

a cracked window

 

David He

Gran's birthday

 

Chad Henry

boarded-up windows

 

Florence Heyhoe

flooded field

 

Robert Hirschfield

bagging mangoes

 

Jeff Hoagland

blue moon

 

Gary Hotham

tourists

 

Marilyn Humbert

distant thunder

 

Mona Iordan

night fall

 

David Josephsohn

just-mown lawn

 

Jim Kacian

the last light

 

Kazumi Karaki

layer of time

the milky way

 

Emil Karla

an old letter—

 

Mayumi Kawaharada

Through a dewdrop

Cat and crow

 

Lori Kiefer

first dawn

 

Noel King

the click of the widower’s cane

 

John Knowles

the hands of a clock

 

Nadejda Kostadinova

evening on the sofa

 

Nina Kovačić

ECG flatline –

 

Ryland Shengzhi Li

taking the spider

 

Chen-ou Liu

no words left ...

seaside cafe ...

 

Earl Livings

old brickworks

 

Heather Lurie

stark orchid

a trail

 

paul m.

neither Catholic,

ruckus of birds

 

Malcolm MacClancy

after the storm –

 

Eadbhard McGowan

whisper of the night

 

Rob McKinnon

long night

 

Robert MacLean

three days of snow. . .

 

Ursula Maierl

strutting silently

thirsty - 

winter narcissus

 

JP Meredith

coming home

 

Mark Miller

thrift shop window

where the paddock

 

John Moran

the river at low tide;

outside a bookies

 

Leanne Mumford

azure sky

some anomalies

 

Melissa Leaf Nelson

ice on the road

at the coffee shop

 

Donncha Ó Conmhuí

trí ghais fhoighneacha,

 

Hugh O'Donnell 

spring morning-

 

Kiyoko Ogawa

a dead crow

 

Ben Oliver

another year older —

 

Teresa O'Neill

the old oak down

 

Maeve O'Sullivan

frost moon –

power cut

first dream of the year:

ninety miles of it

 

Christa Pandey

missing spring rain

 

Dejan Pavlinović

dead calm

 

petro c. k.

riposo

 

Thomas Powell

flooded meadow

 

D.A. Prince

homeward path

 

Audrey Quinn

a night sky

seagrass snagged

 

Sally Quon

winter seclusion-

 

Meera Rehm

all the way home

warzone

 

Peter Rees

a feather duster

 

Kim Richardson

hoeing the veg garden

window box flowers

how the sunshine

 

Bryan Rickert

making its way

cold rain

 

Nicholas H. Rossler

last train

 

Marianne Sahlin

early April

hot day

harvesting lettuce

 

Bona M. Santos

evening chill

frosty morning

 

Agnes Eva Savich

cold front

 

Bonnie J. Scherer

a drizzle of syrup

 

Albert Schlaht

left alone

 

Dan Schwerin

as if they don’t care

 

Ron Scully

waves snuggle in

after the storm

 

Paula Sears

spring rain

 

Richa Sharma

before me

 

Kelly Shaw

home from the journey,

 

Guy Stephenson

farmers’ thrift

long-tailed tits

 

Dylan Stover

knowing when

 

Debbie Strange

the shortest day

glaze event

 

Jennifer Sutherland

eiderdown clouds

 

Nathanael Tico

burrowing deeper

 

Tito

Heart of

Dark rock

 

Fionnuala Waldron

quarrelling magpies

 

David Watts

evening martini

snowcapped leaves

 

Joseph P. Wechselberger

frosty morning

sunset …

 

Kelley J. White

growing older

 

Tony Williams

mahonia scent…

 

Angela J Wilson

on the beach

 

Kathabela Wilson

inside the azalea

almost saying

 

Robert Witmer

lighthouse

 

Keiko Yurugi

Sunlight

 

Elena Zouain

chemin enneigé/snowy path -

 

 

 

 

 

 


 


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