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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 8
April 2022
Contents of Volume 8
(April 2022)
Contributors
Introduction
Selected haiku and senryu
A bit of food for thought
Meet… Caroline Skanne
Essays and Articles
Fernando
Pessoa and the way of haiku Zlatka Timenova-Valtcheva
Season-words
and Global Warming Alain Kervern
The Kodansha Saijiki:
Spring: Major Themes and A Few Season-Words
Contributors
At
least one haiku from the contributors in the list below will be published in
Issue 6:
Adjei Agyei-Baah
harmattan fields...
Ramesh Anand
summer twilight
Cynthia Anderson
morning juniper
Marilyn Ashbaugh
spring rain
mist on the lake
Hifsa Ashraf
barn wind...
Joanna Ashwell
mid-spring
Gavin Austin
jacaranda rain
Michael Baeyens
midwinter shadows
a truth
Roberta Beary
middle age love
summer haze
forsythia
Mona Bedi
after all our
Amanda Bell
lost in the long grass
restrictions tighten –
Brad Bennett
an osprey nest
Daniel Birnbaum
in the middle of the river
winter morning
Adrian Bouter
the appetite
Justin Brown
after the funeral
David Burleigh
The screeching bulbuls
On a quiet bridge
Paul Callus
hesitation -
Christopher Calvin
first summer
Pris Campbell
other days
Mariangela Canzi
le cerisier en fleur/cherry
in blossom
Liam Carson
a murmuration of snow
so pink...
Aaliyah Cassim
horizon at sunrise
Christina Chin
marsh wrens
Jackie Chou
first time giving birth
Glenda Cimino
hanging by a thread
Marion Clarke
Carlingford
Vera Constantineau
similarities
Ronald K. Craig
browsing a library
Maya Daneva
roses petals
Gurpreet Dutt
harvesting day...
David Eyre
april
a sea-worn bone
Gilles Fabre
searching deep
vers la nouvelle lune/under
the new moon
Bruce H. Feingold
masks
somewhere
P. H. Fischer
coldest night
Michael Flanagan
one lonely cricket
Jim Force
day's end
winter moon
Lorin Ford
pink magnolias . . .
Jenny Fraser
the welling
Jay Friedenberg
stained glass
hunter's moon
Ben Gaa
calving glacier
adrift in your sea
William Scott Galasso
December morning
Michael J. Galko
alpine forest-
Mike Gallagher
orange flame
Mark Gilfillan
arms outstretched
John Gonzalez
empty nest
swans arriving ....
Orla Grant-Donoghue
empty apple trees
Eufemia Griffo
hospice garden
icy moon
Elisabeth Guichard
Spring settled
Nicky Gutierrez
firefly garden
Cain Gwynne
receiving
Carole Harrison
eucalypt sunrise
John Hawkhead
funeral mass
Mariel Herbert
dense fog
Florence Heyhoe
the sun always
Jeff Hoagland
chasing
Louise Hopewell
googling
Gary Hotham
while in bed
we move
Marilyn Humbert
first light
Angiola Inglese
calzini piegati/folded
socks
Mona Iordan
so frail
Anne-Marie Joubert-Gaillard
ventre rebondi/big round
belly
Jim Kacian
mountain hike
first autumn chill—
silvery night
Uchimura Kaho
black swallowtail
Kazumi Karaki
yakusoku/our promise
kemonomichi/following the
animal trail
Arvinder Kaur
return trip
William Keckler
bread factory
Noel King
farmer ‘howing’ cows
John Kinory
fog enveloping
Deborah P Kolodji
birthday cake
Yvette Kolodji
my car follows
Nina Kovačić
smiraj u bari/pond
serenity
Hervé Legall
aube claire/clear daybreak
neige.../snow...
Kristen Lindquist
dark below
the river
Earl Livings
between words
Chen-ou Liu
the dewdrops
Eric A. Lohman
rainy street —
back & forth
Anthony Lusardi
green caterpillar
Ursula Maierl
brown winter garden -
lopped branches
Richard L. Matta
two more petals
Kawaharada Mayumi
May mountain-
Rob McKinnon
briar refuge…
Jim Meredith
threat of rain
after her letter
Mark Miller
autumn sunlight
Mike Montreuil
Father’s Day
Pamela Muller
grey treetop islands
Leanne Mumford
after days
earthquake news
Veronika Zora Novak
thick ocean fog . . .
Maeve O'Sullivan
glitter spillage
barren landscape
Dejan Pavlinović
korak po korak/step by step
Alan Peat
brief summer love
fruits d’aubaine/windfall
fruit…
Matthew Perry
in the treehouse
Pippa Phillips
mapping
Keith Polette
rosary hands—
Audrey Quinn
November morning
Meera Rehm
frost leaves. . .
Sébastien Revon
plus de fils ni de
mari/husband and son gone
Bryan Rickert
winter fog
Chad Lee Robinson
lingering cold
Jane Robinson
bees buzz around
Srinivas S
dense fog
Barbara Sabol
morning light
Marianne Sahlin
creek willow
Agnes Eva Savich
overcast
Albert Schlaht
icy river
Dan Schwerin
such cold news
they never speak
Joe Sebastian
turning on the lamp
Manoj Sharma
the long journey
Tomislav Sjekloća
before
Nadejda Stoilova
just two of us
Debbie Strange
community pasture
shelterbelt
Elisa Theriana
cherry blossom
Nathanael Tico
after high winds
Zlatka Timenova-Valtcheva
Devant l’océan/In front of
the ocean
Lune de neige/Snow moon
Tito
Hard to tell
The love of people:
Rp Verlaine
mid-winter
Fionnuala Waldron
the bull locks eyes
Marilyn Ward
nearly spring
Julie Warther
a field of pumpkins
David Watts
wind tree
Joseph P. Wechselberger
after her wake
family secrets …
Michael Dylan Welch
shelf lichen
holly berries
Daniel West
what would be a beach
Mary White
early sunset.. .
Elaine Wilburt
the Milky Way
Tony Williams
winter solstice…
Kath Abela Wilson
shutdown city
the point
Michael Winter
creamer cup flower
Robert Witmer
wolf wind
a grace note
Hassane Zemmouri
autumn morning-