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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-

 



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