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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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