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Well, putting this episode together has been a bit of an adventure but here we are, episode 20 of the 3rd series of the haiku pea podcast. I’m Patricia and I’d like to welcome to you all to a special podcast, written by the community. This time you have been taking in your surroundings looking for haiku that could be found in your everyday life. How is that different from a normal haiku? Well in this case you have found your words in the writing of others and put the words together to form haiku and senryu. You have found them in the most interesting places, other pieces of literature, music, video, T-shirts, road signs, public services, even bags! I’ve enjoyed reading them and thank you for increasing my reading list. Wherever needed you will find the source of the inspiration in the shownotes.
Some of you have asked if I can read out the haiku twice. I wish that were possible but for practical reasons, I just can’t, however, you do have the haiku in the shownotes so you can read them over and over as many times as you like. You can even read them aloud!
Don’t forget I’m taking submissions for the next topic, social issues, until the 1st November, in 2020 if you are coming to the podcast late. Remember no politics please.
Before I read this month’s terrific submissions let me just thank you for my coffees. I really appreciate you taking the time to go to the website and buy them. Thank you. Last month I used my coffee money to say thank you to my husband for all the work he does on the website and podcast. We were on holiday in Spain, Andalusia and the little town we go to has beautiful beaches and on the beaches are some lovely little chiringuito, refreshment stops along the way and when we weren’t out following the footsteps of Hemmingway, or Brenan or Woolsey we wandered down to the beach and had our coffees, people watching to the sound of gently lapping waves. Thank you.
I haven’t had time to find any previously published work, sorry, but you won’t be disappointed I have some fine work for you. The poets’ name will be read, after their work.
I’m going to start the podcast with quite a punchy verse from Christina Chin
hysterectomy
the first home of her children
they just took out
Found:The sun and her flowers – poems by rupi kaur
https://readanybook.com/online/765590#582883
Christina Chin
wild east
sound and fury
local girls
Found: on book spines
Trey Treeful
clover
another bunny’s ears—
and another…
Found: Little Blue Truck’s Springtime
Jonathan Roman
fresh faces,
cold sweet flowers,
flakes in the darkness
Found: Tender Is the Night by Fitzgerald
Joan Barrett
Something pipes
in the trees,
a regular note
Found: Audrey Dunne (2014) ‘Hessle Foreshore at Sunset’ in Humberlands: fifteen poems about the Humber & its landscape Wordspin Publications, Hull
Roger Watson
storm-clouds
I spread out my joy
on the grass
Found: “New Rain”, The One & the Many by Rabindranath Tagore
Debbie Strange
daylight thrush—
in the morning song
a river flows
Found: The Reverie of poor Susan- William Wordsworth
m shane pruett
even today,
the wind is always strong in
the environs of Mt.Fuji
Found: in a description of a Hokusai woodblock print from 36 views of Mt. Fuji – View from Ejiri in Suruga Province
Ian Speed
in the webbed feet of the world a wet morning
Found: Forty Years by Mary Oliver
Vandana Parashar
silent spring
earth
in the balance
Found: Rachel Carson Silent Spring and Earth in the balance Al Gore
Bona M Santos
purple blossoms fall
into black blue sky
a giant panda
Found: Website – Pandas by Jolyn
Nicky Gutierrez
planet Earth
on the edge
the darkest goodbye
Found: on book spines
Tracy Davidson
everything
nourishes what is
strong already
Found: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
BA France
in all my dreams
I hear lake water lapping
how sweet the sound
Found: ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ and ‘Amazing Grace’
Jenni Wyn Hyatt
iceberg
silence taking
the world
Found: “When Death Comes” a poem by Mary Oliver
Valentina Ranaldi Adams
morning lament
the wind
such a rainy sound
Found: Morning lament – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe & The wind has such a rainy sound – Christina Georgina Rosset
Richa Sharma
the last flowers of Manet
beautiful and pointless
Found: The Last Flowers of Manet, by Robert Gordon and Andrew Forge and Beautiful and Pointless – A Guide to Modern Poetry, by David Orr
Lorraine Padden
fleurs du mal
like underground water
elegies in blue
Found: Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire; Like Underground Water: The Poetry of Mid-Twentieth Century Japan; Elegies in Blue: Poems by Benjamin Alire Saenz)
Alex Fyffe
new potatoes
loving their cool hardness
in our hands
Found: ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney
Kim Russell
have you had
a busy morning
being juicy
Marilyn Ward
knee deep in honeysuckle
the mare noses
her golden foal
Found: Teaching a Stone To Talk by Annie Dillard
Angela Terry
enamelled vessel
a rapid swing of the stern
watch the flight of birds
Found: French provincial cooking by Elizabeth David / Running a big ship The Classic Guide to Managing A Second World War Battleship by Rory O’Conor / Survival evasion and escape Department of the Army Field Manual, FM 21-76
Sarah Bint Yusef
gleaming white
in the path of the moon
restless silver
Federico Garcia Lorca’s collected poems and supplemented some of them with some Borges.
**Rosalind Horrobin
my sodding garden
Christ, I’m feeding birds – the shits
awful early weeds
Found: Philip Larkin’s letter 26 May 1974
Peter Adair
clearing the grasslands
for another sowing –
buffalo hunters
Found: Wallace Stegner’s ‘Wolf Willow’ 1962 Viking edition
Art Fredeen
pine wind…
the sad sounds of
a hill station
Found: Ruskin Bond’s short story ‘A Face in the Dark’
Srinivas S
This next one reminds me of my holidays, watching the ships cross the Mediterranean, but I know Robert’s ships are much further north.
dusk has gone
with the evening star
a lone ship light
Found: snippets of poems found on “Project Gutenberg from www.gutenberg.org”.
Robert Horrobin
In this next selection we will met a poet new to the podcast. Nika. Now Nika has an interesting hobby, he spreads the joy of haiku via postcards. I hope he will come onto the podcast soon and tell us about it.
beginning
with the word
god
James Young
teachers are special
bless this mess
and other prayers
Found: Teachers Are Special; Nancy Burke / Bless This Mess and Other Prayers; Jo Carr & Imogene Sorley
Barbara Carlson
the listeners
in a fish and chips queue
at lunchtime
Found: the contents page of the BBC anthology, The Nation’s Favourite Twentieth Century Poems (Editor Griff Rhys Jones).
Mike Gallagher
daring to dream?
of love–
maybe someday
Riham El-Ashry
mindfulness is better than chocolate
tiny Buddha’s
zen moment
Found: Mindfulness is better than chocolate by David Michie and Tiny Buddha by Lori Deschene
Anjali Warhadpande
geography
getting older
getting older
Found: The Haiku Year – index of first lines
Pearl
drawing circles
the eternal whirling
of wind-vanes
Found: Garcia Lorca’s ‘Pueblo’
Anna Maria Domburg-Sancristoforo
dusk through narrow streets . . .
smoke that rises from the pipes
of lonely men
Found: TS Elliot The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock
Marion Clarke
painting landscapes in oil
her voice there still
Found: in a book title, North Carolina Poetry Society Poetry Reading via Zoom
Craig Kittner
a large stone
on sheets of paper
a shapeless face
Found: Miro by Walter Erben
**Nika
rhythm
the way in which
we all suffer
Found: Nausea -Sartre
Maya Daneva
conversation –
time sandwiched with
stories
Found: Robert Horrobin’s commentary in the summer edition of the Poetry Pea Journal
Dorothy Burrows
a monk
swimming far
beyond the field
Found: A Monk Swimming, Malachy McCourt / Far Beyond the Field, Haiku by Japanese Women, Makoto Ueda
Veronika Zora Novak
Next up a few of the musicku that were submitted to the podcast
autumn leaves
drift by my window
red and gold
Found: Song: Autumn Leaves – Ahmad Farag Elyan
Richard Bailly
ticket to ride
the long and winding road
she’s leaving home
Found: Beatles song titles
Rob McKinnon
white bird
in a golden cage
the leaves blow
Found: White Bird, It’s a Beautiful Day, 1969
Richard Tice
snap your fingers
a deep orange
now the wind
Found: an email by Malcolm Gilbert, Salem, Oregon, 15th September 2020.
Mark Gilbert
blue lagoon
sea breeze
mermaid mule
Found: vodka cocktails
Cyrille Soliman
early fog
morning glories
turn the other cheek
Found: Song lyrics and titles
Erin Castaldi
South Rim—
bluish-purple spikes of lupine
signal summer
Found: Taken from the book Grand Canyon Impressions, photography by Bernadette Heath, captions by Janet Webb Farnsworth, 2005 Farcountry Press
Kathleen Tice
for fall foliage
New England can’t be beat
mix of brilliant colors
Found: Farmer’s Almanac
Linda L Kruschke
Many of the haiku that were submitted this time made me smile and in this section I hope you will find yourself smiling along with me. Helen Buckingham, a poet new to the podcast brings us a little bit of British humour. I wonder if it translates across the globe? I’m sure you will let me know.
the price of trespass
might surpass the penalty
indicated
Found: A warning not to trespass on the railway
Richard Hargreaves
young guns pretty in pink
Found: 80’s films
Rp Verlaine
an elderly woman
moves among all the naked men,
sweeping up the trash
Found: A Beginner’s Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations by Pico Iyer, pg. 132
Doris Lynch
motorcycle—
Tape your registration
to rear window
Her husband renewed his registration online, and after the website for the state department of motor vehicles’ accepted his payment, it stated to print and tape your temporary registration to your rear window.
Elaine Wilburt
Berlioz
March to the Scaffold
bitter divorce
Ronald K Craig
scrawled in marker pen
across her kiss-me-quick hat
on your head be it!
**Helen Buckingham
coronavirus lockdown
puppies from animal shelter
visit aquarium
Found: newspaper headlines
eddy
girl before a mirror
Picasso’s lover
and her reflection
Found: Titles of artwork
Katherine E Winnick
a cotton bag
No.1 Asian food delivery
saves the planet
Found: A food delivery bag
Lekha Desai Morrison
ancient flavors
that time doesn’t change …
trip to Liguria
Found: in a restaurant in Liguria + “Viaggio in Liguria” by Giuseppe Marcenaro
Daniela Misso
riots —
school bells
ring again
Found: in the news headlines when schools re-opened on September 15th
Zahra Mughis
my abode
all my life
not mine
Found: A lecture aboutPure Land School of Haiku by DE Navarro
Willie R Bongcaron
crime and punishment.
the hero of our time.
Eugene Onegin–.
Rose
feather pillows
for sale…in-store/pick up
only
wendy c. bialek
frightening all reason
out of the air
the mind’s cabbage garden
Found: Gamel Woolsey – ‘Death’s other kingdom’
Bisshie
sweet cranberry
fall in love with autumn
all over again
Found: on Body lotion
Neena Singh
garden friends
on hot nights
a star is born
Found: Packets of tea.
Hannah Hulbert
light, earthy, complex
worthy of worship
a great wine
Found: “For Winemakers, Climate Presents a Blend of Problems” by Steve Lopez – Los Angeles Times NewspaperPrint Edition
Robert Quezada
new potatoes
loving their cool hardness
in our hands
Found in ‘Digging’ by Seamus Heaney
Kim Russell
poppy seed cake
grandma’s goodies
home fragrance
Found:recipe book
Eva Drobná
Sadly we have come to the end of the podcast today. That last section left me a bit peckish, so I’m off to the kitchen for a snack.
Thank you for coming along and listening, I hope you enjoyed it. Special thanks to all the wonderful poets we have heard from today, where would the podcast be without you?
Next time the topic is social issues, deadline 1st November. Please email your submissions to me.
The next podcast is the first Monday of November when Craig Kittner returns for the second part of his chat, we’ll have a new renku and a reading. So until then. Keep writing…
If I’ve written something incorrectly, or have left something out, please just let me know by email. Ciao
** Poets new to the podcast.
