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This week on the haiku pea podcast, I’m bringing you lots of fantastic haiku and senryu from your very own Poetry Pea community as well as some previously published work which matched our topic of exaggerated perspective. I’m really delighted to be joined by Christopher Peys, Richard Tice and m shane pruett who are the community judges for today. You can hear what they had to say about the poems they nominated and of course when the Spring Journal is out, not so long to wait now, you can find out which of the nominations won and which two splendid verses are the honourable mentions.
Let’s start with some previously published work and my thanks must go to Debbie Strange who sent me a piece of her work to read and to Brad Bennett, who was a star in episode 5 of this series and shared with me some of his favourite haiku, which he thought would be great for this podcast. Thanks to you both. If you would like to share your previously published work on any of our topics for this year, do please send them in, I’ll do my best to feature them.
fog deepens
the sound of rabbits
nibbling night
Debbie Strange, Grand Prize, 2016 World Haiku Competition
A selection from Brad Bennett:
late night—
a deer drinks moonlight
from the top of a pine
Edward J Rielly, Answers Instead
after the downpour
the evening sky
all over the road
David Serjeant, Notes from the Gean 3.2
old barn
a pine eye
lets in the sun
Yu Chang, THN 19:1
cloudless night
a drip in the sink
catches the moon
Kay Grimnes, Acorn 5
Now your verses, written especially for this topic of exaggerated perspective.
Judges choice nomination by Christopher Peys:
creek song…
the stories
only rocks know
Angela Terry
bears in space
climbing the mountain
mother and cub
Lorraine A Padden
no longer a match
the San Andreas
between us
Deborah P Kolodji
sunlit dewdrop
on a leaf edge
the universe
Hifsa Ashraf
pouring rain
two umbrellas
bobbing along the fence
Carmen Sterba
williwaw
gales from another planet
rush through me
Doris Lynch
sheets billowing
against a cloud filled sky
dripping snowflakes
Katherine E Winnick
my greyrain trance . . . . . .
a thundering sudden jolt
blinding-white!
Brett Brady
dark clouds soar
a rain drop
touches me
Lekha Desai Morrison
faraway stars
drift toward earth
snowflakes
Pam Joy
cliff boulders tumbling
into cold sea waters
now sand underfoot
C X Turner
a grain of sand
in the stark greatness
and still …
Natalia Kuznetsova
with moon hat
riding a beach snail
Fuji under the great wave
Charles Harmon
beach sunrise…
every wave draws more
day to the shore
Srinivas S
nudist beach
grey bush-crickets
hard to spot
Dr Tim Gardiner
motionless snake
lying on moonlit alley
rope?
S Narayanan
sandbox –
laughter echoes
from grain to grain
Paul Callus
beyond the anthill
the city’s glassy structures
gleam
Mark Gilbert
Judges’ choice nomination by m shane pruett:
wooden ladder
on the neighbor’s wall
the moon climbs down
Neena Singh
A few thank yous. First of all you have been really fabulous in your response to my mailings. I really value your thoughts and opinions so please, whenever you would like send me a mail, feedback, poems. It’s a treat to hear from you. If you’re not on the mailing list, please sign up on the website.
I try and do a mailing every week and last week I asked for volunteers who would like
- to help me edit the submissions for the podcast
- to be community judges
I had some responses but there is always room for more. If you would like to join in the fun, just send me an email for details.
Thank you to to everyone who has been generous enough to buy the podcast a coffee. It really helps to keep my costs down and I have some ideas for new projects, but to be really honest, I can’t do them without a bit of financial support so if you have a little bit of cash for a coffee, and I know not everybody has these days, coffee would be really appreciated.
brumal night…
frozen breaths become
a thousand stars
Marilyn Ward
a slice of moon
just enough
to go around
Lori Becherer
orion’s belt
pulled tight across
the treetops
BA France
molten lava
the sun pours down
my anger
Richa Sharma
melted sand
bars her from the womb
that bore her
EL Blizzard
firefly miracle –
planets dance
around a distant sun
Matt Snyder
the moon above
shining on the valley
in the river
Mike Gallagher
through pinhole apertures
in the dark cloth of night
infinity
Allison Douglas-Tourner
suggestions of
discovering the end of infinity
are exaggerated
Ian Speed
breathing new life
into Earth’s lungs
I plant saplings
Tracy Davidson
lonely numbers
on her warm stone
stars beyond our sun
Robert Witmer
shopping
my toddler counts suns
in the fruit aisle
Nisha Ravisprasad
Saturn and Jupiter almost touch his outreached hand
Mimi Ahern
roller coaster ride…
after reaching the sun,
falling to earth
Rob McKinnon
a button
on father’s coat
eclipses the moon
Eve Castle
in the mirror
the monk Oyoguhito
has two pasts
James Young
alone at home
I travel along
with Santoka
Anna Maria Domburg Sancristoforo
new year’s party
that constant buzz
a hive builds in my ear
Anjali Warhadpande
new year’s feast
I gain
a million pounds
Jackie Chou
always adding
to the story –
she forgets the beginning
Laura Driscoll
following folk tales
in crumbs and moonlit pebbles
seeking adulthood
Kim Russell
kohl stick
with a single stroke, I trap
the night
Vandana Parashar
singing
as we haul water
up the hill
Roberta Beach Jacobson
summer orchard
a pear drips
from her paintbrush
Isabel Caves
holding dad’s hands
at my first ball game
stadium lights
Bruce H Feingold
nowhere to hide,
no end in sight –
Zoom meeting
Shai Afsai
new virus
the time it spends
figuring us out
David Oates
coconut tree
she marks her son’s height
on the wall
Minal Sarosh
his terrible twos–
breaking
the sound barrier
David Eyre
headache a mile long
the walk home
from next door
Pat Davis
deserts of vast eternity
this empty page
Richard Hargreaves (1)
lone apple tree
a bumper crop
feeds the homeless
Richard Bailly
cave opening
a million spewed swiftlets
darken the morning sky
Christina Chin
in my dish
the spectacular jump
of a salmon
Daniela Misso
sunshine
endless twitter of sparrows
in the hedge
Susan Plumridge
cosmos
beyond the beyond
apartment cat
Ronald K Craig
bucking calf
grandma’s fingers through
my double crown
Suraj Nanu
earthquake
ant hill trembles
with each child’s step
Doug Lanzo
a thousand birds outside a song stuck in my head
Craig Kittner
cyber-gossip
bit by bit
spiders clobber her dream
Anna Yin
hay bales
we return home
cricket by cricket
Marion Clarke
vacant factory
broken rafters patched
with pigeons
Debbie Strange
shiny new bike
for sale
a penny in my pocket
Barbara Carlson
shiny new bike
nose up against the window
a penny in my pocket
Barbara and Bisshie
three seconds
of a hunting falcon
a day cut in two
Claudia Poquoc
sunrise –
flocks of birds rise from trees
to become one with clouds
Neera Kashyap
squirrels quarrel
a thousand voices greet
the new morning
Steve Ullom
winter chalk stream
three flying ducks
ornament the sky
Dorothy Burrows
waterfall –
a single drop of river
finds its fern leaf
Bill Fay
mountain mist—
the entire ocean
starting over
m shane pruett
grand canyon rim
the raging river
only a silver thread
Kathleen Tice
Judges’ choice nomination by Richard Tice:
map lichen
the time it takes a river
to carve a valley
Kristen Lindquist
My thanks to all the judges for coming along today to tell us which of the poems they would like to nominate for the judges choice.
We had some fun deciding which of the three fabulous verses is the actual judges choice and which are the honourable mentions. Thanks chaps…
I know what the results are but I’m afraid you will have to wait until the Spring Journal is out to find out.
My thanks again to the judges, Christopher Peys, m shane pruett and Richard Tice, to Brad and Debbie for sending me previously published work, to everyone who sent their submissions to me, whether you were successful or not, I enjoyed reading them. And of course thank you for coming along and listening, because without you I’d be speaking into a void, it’s so nice to know you are there.
Time is running out for you to send your submissions for the topic “No Ego”, your deadline is the 20th March. Just to let you know team editing has begun and the wonderful James Young and Robert Horrobin are my co editors for no ego. Let’s make sure they have plenty to do.
Next time on the podcast I have more treats for you Randy Brooks, editor and publisher of Mayfly is coming along to talk to us as is Ted Sherman, who will be telling us about a really interesting haiku project going on in the UK. Hope you come along and join us. Til then, keep writing…
If I’ve messed up or left something out of the show notes, please email me and I’ll sort it out.
Ciao,
Patricia
- Andrew Marvell, His Coy Mistress
