triveni spotlight
A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY!
hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh
guest editor: Billie Dee
Theme: Close Observation
spring thunder from the center of a pine stump a pine
Naia Temecula, California, USA
The Heron’s Nest, III.7, 2001. (Editor’s Choice Award)
I am pleased to submit the following selected poems from my personal "favorite haiku" list, one I've developed over the last 30 years or so. All have been approved by the authors; all include publication credits (except one from Patricia Machmiller which is unpublished); all are from the U.S. Pacific coastal rim (my region). I have chosen "close observation" as my theme, a guiding principle in my own writing, and a core element IMO for developing a Haiku Mind.
Peace,
Billie Dee
p.s. Under-lined book titles have embedded links where a reader can go to purchase the book.
I appreciate the layered meaning of this ku. To me it is full of hope: we all have a center from which new life can spring.
Loved this. The same as in Plantations. Interconnected, I have a haiku in that. Need to polish that up.
I witness this on a regular basis with green onions in my garden, in the center of each cut stem, there's a new one. Beautiful observation, Naia.
Naia has shown how life in all forms knows how to survive.
spring thunder
from the center of a pine stump
a pine
L1 seems to be a wake-up call :))
Nicely done.
Yes! Love it!