triveni spotlight
A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY!
hosts: Teji Sethi and Kala Ramesh
guest editor: Billie Dee
Theme: Close Observation
sandy boardwalk ants taking the gecko’s shape
Tanya McDonald Woodinville, Washington, USA
Frogpond, 43.1, 2020.
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 All have been approved by the authors; all include publication credits (except one from Patricia Machmiller which is unpublished); all are from the U.S. Pacific coastal rim (my region).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.
Beautiful image.
It is an extraordinary sight isn't it?
How the missing body, now broken down, is for a short while taken over by another agency.
I'm reminded of this experience in Queensland, Australia:
high noon: half a bandicoot is the flies’ hum
Alan Summers
Anthology credit:
early version published: British Haiku Society Postal Workshops Anthology, 2000
Article: The Moon is Broken: Juxtaposition in haiku article Scope vol. 60 no. 3 (Fellowship of Australian Writers,Queensland journal April 2014)
Love this one Billie.