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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

S4E18: Original haiku and senryu using Place Names
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