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Hello and welcome to the Haiku Pea podcast episode 18 of the fourth series.
Now some fantastic news. Those of you who are on our mailing list will already know the summer journal is out. I love the colour, I love the content and it’s a bumper issue it’s huge. Thank you to everyone for taking part and I hope I’ve done it justice. It’s available on Amazon in paperback and kindle form and there is a link on the Journal page on the website .
A couple of quick reminders.
Next time we’re going to be writing long haiku. If you haven’t got a clue what that is you haven’t listen to Mark Gilbert who came along in episode 17 of this fourth series to talk about long haiku and gave us some excellent examples. You can listen on the podcast or to his YouTube presentation. Your submission period for long haiku is the 1st to 20 October 2021.
I need a video for the Pea TV Haiku prompt for October. It’s really easy to do with your phone…It should be landscape mode and about 20-30 seconds long. You can google drive or dropbox it to me. Hurry, hurry, hurry…
If you’ve not seen this month’s video, by Robert Horrobin, do please go to our YouTube channel and have a look, write some poetry and comment on the poetry f others. It’s a great exercise.
Now for a grovelling apology. NicK Hoffman, I am so sorry but despite my checks and balances for each podcast I messed up and I left your wonderful poem out of the yūgen podcast. Words can’t express how sorry I am but I can at least make it up a little bit by reading it to everyone now.
a hawk circling, circling
above the grassy fields
circling, circling
Nick Hoffman
Now on to place names.
As usual I’ll start with previously published haiku. Fasten your seatbelts because we’re off on our travels.
Previously Published
utah beach
standing where he stood
years ago
Debbie Olson, Frogpond (41:2)
Mt. Everest the way your bones shoulder sky
Debbie strange, Brass Bell, September 2014
Mersey Tunnel
i see to the end
of his yawn
Marilyn Ward, The Haiku Pea Podcast, series 2 episode 22
Original haiku and senryu
Mark Farrar’s nomination for the judges’ choice
Haiti earthquake
a doll in the rubble
orphaned
JL Huffman
the mist
up and down
round and round
the road to Big Sur
Mimi Ahern
Cadillac Ranch —
the deep crimson
of sunset
Joshua Gage
dad casts again . . .
in our bucket, the wild smell
of Lake Minnawanna
Nick Hoffman
mission bells
the swallows return
to San Juan Capistrano
Bona M. Santos
from the Grand Canyon
we turn away for the last time
tears in our eyes
Giddy Nielsen-Sweep
brilliant orange sky
fades to midnight blue
Grand Canyon sunset
Veronica Hosking
après Mardi Gras
the sidewalk skillet
sizzles with onions
John S Green
over Gettysburg
storm clouds charging the sky
blue and grey
Joshua St Clair
Paper mill lock
cloud burst in each lift of
the oarsman’s paddle
Robert Kingston
Chicago squall
abandoned parrots seek warmth
under the stadium lights
Doris Lynch
admitting defeat
from the august sun
taku glacier
Pam Joy
Lake Hood
the floatplane ripples
the cloud
Marcie Wessels
Saturna Island roadblock
searching cars for carrion
turkey vultures
Allison Douglas-Tourner
Woonsocket sand
building castles
out of memories
Nicole Tilde
monarch butterflies flutter
on Pacific Grove breezes
sanctuary safe
Cath Wren
Fallingwater
finding peace and quiet
sans beach
Ronald K Craig
Union bound…
mem’ries of sweet apples
from our backyard tree
Pat Geyer
another breaking shelf
we fail to fix…
Antarctica
Tracy Davidson
Thank you:
Editing team:
Robert Horrobin and James Young really work hard to edit all the submissions and for Place Names they were joined by Ron Craig. Thanks to all three of you for doing this. We have approximately 600 poems to read through a month, so it’s no small undertaking.
Coffees:
As you know the podcast and all the extra bits and bobs offered by poetry pea, apart from the Journal, are offered free, but that doesn’t mean there is no cost involved and so I’m always grateful when you buy me coffees, and at the moment I am sorely in need of a new microphone. Good microphones are a bit expensive but with your help I am 50% of the way to being able to afford a new one. My sincere thanks for my August coffees to:
Karen Harvey, Amanda Ferguson, Linda L Ludwig, Hannah Hulbert, Jason Furtak, Richard L Matta, Mimi Ahern, Kristen Lindquist, Pat Geyer, Chris Dean, Wendy Gent, Anthony Williams, John Green, Alison Douglas-Tourner, Steve Bahr, JL Huffman, Matt Synder and Nick Hoffman
Community Judges this month:
Mark Farrar, Angela Terry and Richard Tice
the rising moon
across the bay of Tarifa
casting reflections
Katherine E Winnick
pitch black night
turtles flip Talang-Talang’s
soft white sand
Christina Chin
morning eclipse –
crows fall silent
on the Somme
Dorothy Burrows
rising
from a Wroclav pavement
lost generation
Kim Russell
Istanbul sunset
from a minaret to another
the call to prayer
Anna Maria Domburg-Sancristoforo
rising and falling
I catch echoes
from Mount Lu’s waterfall
Anna Yin
Hiroshima…
under the Sakura
fallen memories
Mona Bedi
Rashomon
the shadow of the bell
swings soundlessly
Eugeniusz Zacharski
if the Mishima shrine
is mist enshrouded
how can we find it
Ian Speed
West African monsoon
a big striped umbrella
saves the watermelon feast
Christine Wenk-Harrison
Sydney Harbor
the sails at the Opera House
fill with wind song
Angela Terry
clouds part –
Mount Fuji fills
my eyes
Neena Singh
Nara shrine
steam rising
from sleeping deer
Bill Fay
a prayer
and a smoke
Sinner’s Shrine
Marilyn Ashbaugh
evening puja
the monks’ horns part the golden clouds
Sagarmatha
Robert Witmer
insects for lunch
Karpathian
marsh frogs
Roberta Beach Jacobson
refugees
swarm into Mexico
a million monarchs
Ravi Kiran
in an old orchard
bleached bones jutting out
The Killing Fields
Bruce H Feingold
blue crane
dreaming myself
back to Koh Samui
Isabella Kramer
Angela Terry’s nomination for the Judges’ choice
Kashmir sunset
the expanse of saffron
above and below
Vandana Parashar
Himalayan sun
on the snow-capped mountains
a sea of blue poppies
Baisali Chatterjee Dutt
cradling
its bravest child
the Karakoram
Zahra Mughis
even in the Rawal lake
how I long for the old Rawal lake
when a Himalayan Bulbul sings
Hifsa Ashraf
winter twilight –
mist climbing
the Western Ghats
Amrutha Prahbu
Golconda fort
our claps echoing
in the past
Minal Sarosh
Kumbakkonam dawn
in every breath of every breeze
a temple bell
Srinivas S
Dharamsala …
stretching to the horizon
the prayer flags
Cherry A
Wagah
a whiff of the familiar wafts
across the border
Joe Sebastian
river Ganges . . .
above the dead bodies
blow flies
Milan Rajkumar
Ganga arathi
on the banks of Haridwar
another starlit sky
Lakshmi Iyer
each petal
holds a cloud …
Lotus Temple
Teji Sethi
Mumbai local
a rainbow halts at the platform
for a minute
Arvinder Kaur
Afghanistan
all the butterflies clinging
to the last flower
James Young
Afghanistan
the plane’s taking off
after the prayer
Bakhtiyar Amini
shades pulled
on the train to Berlin —
a guard takes my camera
Richard Tice
Montezuma Castle
cottonwood canopies
hide the sky
Kathleen Tice
Angkor Wat
the stone buddha’s
final repose
Jay Friedenberg
Lake Miyagase
the rice dam
in my curry
Deborah P Kolodji
Fairy Creek
young limbs link around
old growth
PH Fischer
Horseshoe Canyon
sunlight glances off the rim
of your glasses
Debbie Strange
Great Divide
tiny blooms grip the tundra
tight against the wind
B Sharpe
Philadelphia
this blue sky day maybe truly
brotherly love
Kelley J. White
on the dock
feet dangling over ice
… Key West daydreams
BA France
Camp Fire stories
the giant sequoia
knows by heart
Lorraine A Padden
Seattle
your syllables…
drops of rain
Geoff M Pope
evening commute —
the sun crawls across
the brooklyn bridge
m shane pruett
Eastside Cemetery
a lunch hour walk
away from traffic sounds
Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
Honeymoon Bay
promises built
in sandcastles
Dale Bennett
Sleepy Hollow —
lichen eroding
a forgotten name
Pippa Phillips
Yosemite scenes
black and white mastery
caught in perfect light
Richard Bailly
Dixie wildfires
the afternoon turns
into midnight
Christine L. Villa
Mississippi
never been there
but I love the name
Charles Harmon
downtown LA,
sports cars skid
through skid row
Christopher Peys
a small town girl
high rise canyons
New York City
Linda L Ludwig
Catskill Mountain dew
my whole life contained within
these peaks and valleys
Sari Grandstaff
South Carolina Sunday
shock cords hold
the beer cooler shut
David Oates
dawning not dawned
the sun announces herself
over the Capitol
Matt Snyder
fresh after rain
how green Abriachan Forest
smells
Kevin MacNeil
Dover cliffs –
the sheer audacity
of seagulls
Paul Callus
waiting for him
on Hyde Park Corner
thunderstorm
Mariangela Canzi
avocet beak curves
towards cloud
towards Winchelsea
Amanda Ferguson
Caisteal Maol…
ancestral seat calling
to far away
Rob McKinnon
skye dusk. . .
the summer moon full
of pub tunes
Brett Brady
Saltburn-by-the-sea
distant clouds pierce
a gull’s wing
Marilyn Ward
Rotherslade
at high tide –
decision time
Sue Young
the Tyne Bridge
spanning generations –
kittiwakes and kids
Eric Nicholson
Land’s End sunset –
everything is made
of waves
Chris Dean
the Hawthorns
hold the bird…
we play football
Richard Downes
an ant
marching from Mayfair
to Old Kent Road
Tony Williams
old red post box
the last Winterburn swallows
quaver on a wire
Claire Ninham
crossing the Severn
sensing the river swell…
another one flown
Wendy Gent
on the Criccieth coast
we hold tight
to our chip forks
CX Turner
scrambling up
a stegosaurus’s spine
– Helvellyn
EL Forrest
high tide
slapping the bridge
River Usk
Ann Smith
molten flares
grasp the steel grey
Port Talbot
Steven Stokes
Shannon River sunset
the orange and yellow
of meadow butterflies
Douglas J Lanzo
top of the Triglav
already outside Slovenia
my thoughts
Samo Kreuz
Holocaust Museum
his hometown a dot
on an SS camp map
Elaine Wilburt
Cologne Cathedral
a choir tests
the gothic acoustics
Christa Pandey
thorn city
in the history of Trnava
blooming roses
Eva Drobná
Svalbard Island
whitewashed nights
on frozen ground
Edita Striežencová
St Petersburg …
those sleepless white nights
and my first love
Natalia Kuznetsova
no end in sight
gods too flee Olympus
wildfire
Sherry Grant
even in the rain
I love walking
the empty streets of Paris
Maya Daneva
Père Lachaise
we argue all the way
to Abelard’s grave
Kristen Lindquist
the sunflowers
on the Lamartine Place –
van Gogh yellow
Lafcadio
chamomile tea…
the full moon slowly
fills Paris sky
Laughing waters
i too lean
to connect . . .
Tower of Pisa
Melanie Vance
blinded by the light
at the end of the tunnel
Lago di Como
Marion Clarke
Bomarzo Park –
under the green moss
secrets
Daniela Misso
a rainbow
breaks through the storm clouds
of the Rea
Hannah Hulbert
Richard Tice’s nomination for the judges choice:
tashme—
through the wildfire haze
my eyes swim in tears
Isabella Mori
Congratulations to all our nominees this month. You’ll find out how they got on in the Autumn Journal, planned for December. I’m going to have to start numbering them rather than calling them a season, aren’t I. Fancy, Autumn in December…. Well that’s a job for next year.
That’s it for this time.
Thank you to all my wonderful poets, our editing team, our judges and to you for coming along and listening.
Don’t forget to send your haiku and senryu to poetry pea, topics and deadlines are on the submissions 2021 page on the website. AND if you’ve not signed up for the mailing, please go to the website and do so, you might miss out on some special things coming soon… But for now, I’m off to blow out my candles and indulge in some birthday cake…
Next time it’s the podcasts birthday, 4 years… Do come along and hear some new voices as well as me, but in the meantime…Don’t forget, keep writing…
If I’ve left anything out or got something wrong this time, please don’t be afraid to tell me via email, I’ll find a way to sort it out. Until next time… Ciao
