triveni spotlight
A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY!
hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh
guest editor: Billie Dee
Theme: Close Observation
the scar slowly healing wildflowers
Bruce H. Feingold Berkeley, California, USA The Heron's Nest, XIX.4, 2017.
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 All have been approved by the authors; all include publication credits (except one from Patricia Machmiller which is unpublished); all are from the U.S. Pacific coastal rim (my region).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.
Thanks everyone for their comments which have been illustrative and on point.
Thanks, Sanjuktaa, for your comment and totally understand pointing out the similarities -- I like your poem very much.). I am also a hundred percent I didn't see your poem (I'm a psychologist so nothing is100%!) and was not a follower of Daily Haiku so agree with the comment, "It's very unlikely Feingold ever saw your poem. But we all share this same world of recurring images----both human and natural---and there is bound to be overlap" This poem was written spontaneously in the spring based on a life-death experience in winter, 2016 so I think it is the overlapping of human experience which generates the similarities.
I am…
Reading through all the articles and somewhere deep down a persistent fear that I shouldn't or my thoughts shouldn't at some stage be close to the poems posted.
Basically, our intentions are pure and sacred as far as poets world tend to be. Once in a blue moon it happens and only when it's revealed that one realises. So lets all take pride and move ahead that we all have a similar platform of this beautiful Japanese form and that our world is so small, so close with these journals. In fact, I'm honoured to have known you all. Few years back I hadn't at all known haiku and now with such a wonderful platform I take up the pride…
What a lively conversation we are having. Thanks to everyone for your generous sharing of community. Haiku mind.
When I was an editor at World Haiku Review - from 2008 to 2019, I received this mail from Michael Dylan Welch: (I hope he doesn't mind my sharing it here with you):
On Thu, 1 Sept 2011 at 04:39, <WelchM@aol.com> wrote: Dear Susumu and Kala, Congratulations on the new issue of World Haiku Review, which I've just been perusing. I particularly noticed the following poem by Alan S. Bridges (2nd place on the Vangaurd page) at http://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/whr-august-2011/haiku-3-vangaurd-august-2011: aftershock the empty swing swinging Now look at this poem of mine: aftershock empty swings swaying My poem was published in Frogpond 13:1, February 1990. It also appeared in the Haiku Poets of Northern California anthology After Shock (San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 1990), and also appeared in…
REPLY TO SANJUKTAA
". . . I happened to write almost the same poem long back in 2013. You could check the link here: Daily Haiku "
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This is common in the haikai world, Sanjuktaa. How many thousands (millions?) of "moon-caught-in-branches" poems have been written over the centuries? Yet each once was experienced as an original, authentic epiphany by the poet, written in a unique moment of inspiration.
It's very unlikely Feingold ever saw your poem. But we all share this same world of recurring images----both human and natural---and there is bound to be overlap.
In fact, I've written a haiku similar to another one of yours on the very page you linked! Mine was written a decad…