A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN – sight

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2. Up to the mountain-
   the sound of my breathing
   in the emptiness

3. Wow, what a selection, so beautiful and deep. Thank you so much, KJ, for including mine. And Alan Summers, for that ‘extra gift’. I am honored to be among you all dear friends. Awesome!

   1. Dear AJ Anwar, thank you! 🙂
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      Surprise after surprise opened up to me as I journeyed to each and every haiku and found an extra golden nugget ‘half-buried’ to further appreciate the whole poem all over again.
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      I loved this line within a line I found from you! 🙂
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      “the great mountain majestic pose” by AJ. Anwar
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      Thanks again to Kathy, where the wonderful and numerous comments would not have happened. It’s really exciting to check every day who else and what else has been added to the comments! 🙂
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      1. Gosh, for a relative newcomer to this genre, there’s just so much to learn! (Why was I waffling along half a century ago?!)
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         Kathy, thank you for providing such an opportunity, and to both you and Alan for a wonderful learning experience through your weekly comments.
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         It seems to me haiku/senryu and all these short form poems require not only acute observation and brevity but an uncomplicated philosophy that all can relate to. That’s quite a tall order, and something quite hard to master?

         1. Hi Ingrid,
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            It’s amazing how this short little parcel of poetry can seem more complex than a sonnet! 🙂
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            Thankfully Kathy is helping us all look at haiku and its sister genre of senryu in a calm and relaxed manner.
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            Ingrid, you said:
            “It seems to me haiku/senryu and all these short form poems require not only acute observation and brevity but an uncomplicated philosophy that all can relate to.”
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            Wow, seriously, that’s a very astute observation about haiku & senryu (and their related genres)! It’s worth going back to this quote from you whenever we attempt to complicate things beyond necessary.
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            You also said:
            ” That’s quite a tall order, and something quite hard to master?”
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            I’d never worry about ‘mastering’ these two genres, and letting that concern go, I feel they will come to us, and on equal terms. In fact my wife Karen has designed something called “The Spectrum of Haiku & Senryu” which I feel will bring out some extraordinary examples at a later date.

            1. Thanks,for these thoughts. I look forward to reading the “Spectrum!”

            2. Hi Mary Ellen Gambutti! 🙂
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               We do get some amazing course participants, and both stories, and poems, that are fascinating and moving, and we get to see behind the verses that will eventually find their way into magazines.
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               It’s an exceptional privilege, and I think the dynamics around haiku and senryu are getting more and more interesting.

         2. thank you Ingrid, & again (again!) Alan for these kind words… I consider myself a student of haiku… always reading, always learning – trying to be open to the present moment & my senses – I am so grateful to be on this journey with all of you!

            1. HI Kathy!
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               “I consider myself a student of haiku… always reading, always learning – trying to be open to the present moment & my senses”
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               Yes, I think it’s a combination of being wide open as a student, just as a child from its first years soaks up everything in their amazing learning process, and excited about what people bring to haiku (and senryu) and how we can all learn from each other, and from newcomers as well as those who have been practicing for a long time.

   2. thanks for this, AJ!

4. a truly inspiring collection of mountain-related haiku.
   Thank you, Kathy, and (of course) Alan for your always interesting insights 🙂

   1. Yes, big thanks to Kathy, and as usual, I cannot wait for next week’s response to her prompt!
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      I think my ‘lines within lines’ will add extra insight into each wonderful haiku, and that’s there is always more than meets the eye, in a good way! 🙂

      1. thanks Alan!

   2. thanks for this Polona!

5. I love Wednesdays. What a splendid selection of haiku! Thank you for choosing one of mine, Kathy. Alan, I enjoyed your lines within lines. In fact, this one suddenly jumped out at me: a winding road follows nature’s path” by Bona M. Santos. By the way, I love Kilimanjaro. It’s my favourite mountain. There are so many poems to love but here are my favourites:

   clouds of smoke
   across the river
   a mountain village

   Hifsa Ashraf
   Pakistan

   moon over the peak –
   that curvy road
   leading home

   Giovanna Restuccia
   Italy

   glaciers
   on the mountain
   that look you gave me

   Deborah P Kolodji
   Temple City, California

   stepping over
   a small piece of sky
   mountain violet

   Andy McLellan

   mountain top
   I look down
   at my fears

   Blessed Ayeyame
   Ughelli, Nigeria

   dust storm
   where the mountain
   used to be

   Rehn Kovacic

   mountain cabin
   close enough to the stars
   for wishes to reach

   Pris Campbell

   purple mountain
   a dab of sunset
   left over

   Martha Magenta
   England, UK

   the memories
   that carry us
   mountain stream

   Joan Prefontaine

   1. Thank you for including me Corine!!!

   2. Thanks Corine, I enjoyed pulling “your lines within lines” out from everyone’s haiku that appears on this page. It provided some wonderful results!

   3. thanks so much for sharing this, Corine!

6. Thanks, kj, for publishing one of mine. Wonderful collection this week. Congrats to all the poets!

   1. thanks for this Bob!

7. Pleased to be sharing space with all you fine people once again. Thank you kj!

   This one really struck me:

   all day climbing…
   from summer to
   spring

   Tsanka Shishkova

   An experience you could only have in the mountains. Deftly delivered.

   Have a great week all.

   1. Craig and All, Tsanka Shishkova’s poem really struck me, too. Mount Washington in New Hampshire is that kind of mountain – you can start your ascent on a warm summer day and get to the top to find howling winds and signs of early winter!

   2. thanks to both Craig & Pat for sharing your thoughts

   3. “all day climbing” certainly delivers on one of those preterpentadic senses – the sense of time.

8. Thank you for choosing my haiku Katherine, a beautiful selection
   congratulations to everyone

   1. I loved this one, Angela, it could have been written yesterday or 4 billion years ago.

   2. thanks for submitting, Angela, & for your kind words, & also to Mark

9. I am glad we are in the mountains, where I live. I am very grateful to be selected for your comments on my haiku this week Kathy. Thank you again. This one has special meaning for me. And thank you Alan for choosing a line for your “lines within lines” comments. Congratulations to all the poets here. I love Will Nixon’s haiku as we live in the same mountains.

   1. Thank you Sari!
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      There was so much in your haiku, that I’ve enjoyed revisiting it again and again:
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      graveside birthday
      I watch the balloons
      soar to the mountaintop
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      Sari Grandstaff
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      Despite the sadness, I can see that the balloons, whether celebration balloons, or the big peopled ones, made you also soar to the top of the mountain. Incredible work, and joyous despite the poignancy involved.

   2. my pleasure, Sari, & thanks for sharing this

10. Thank you Kate for inserting my haiku, interesting to Alan’s comments on our lines. Good to all authors.

    1. Thanks Angiola, and I loved your come and go shadows, highly atmospheric!

    2. thanks for submitting, Angiola!

11. Dear Cathy,
    Greetings! happy and blessed to be one among the selected here. Thank you for accommodating me here. Appreciate your patience and perseverance in meticulously publishing
    this blog.
    A great source of encouragement.

    with regards
    S. Radhamani

    1. thank you so much for your kind words!

12. Thanks, Kathy, for including one of mine, and Alan, for highlighting a line.
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    My favourite this week:
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    mountain after mountain
    into the distance
    diminishing blues

    Ingrid Baluchi

    1. Thanks Lisa! There has been again some incredibly strong haiku. I’ll try to find time to comment.
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       In the meantime, this blew me away:
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       stepping over
       a small piece of sky
       mountain violet
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       Andy McLellan
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       1. thanks so much Lisa & Alan for sharing this!

13. A fabulous collection of verses, the variety is outstanding and a delight to read, thank you.
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    Many thanks for including one of mine, Kathy. Its a view I see regularly, what a bit of encouragement will do to put it into words 🙂 so pleased you chose this one.

    1. thanks again for submitting, carol!

14. Thank you for your interpretation Alan

    Also thank you for choosing my haiku what a great read.

    1. Kathy picked a good ‘un from you, didn’t she! 🙂
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       It was a pleasure and honour to pick out yet one more magical part of your poem!
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       Alan

       1. Thank you so much for the
          hidden gem commentary!!

       2. Many thanks Alan. I’s a view I never tire seeing 🙂

          1. re:
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             dawn lit mountain…
             patchwork greens
             flecked with sheep
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             carol jones
             Wales
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             I love the use of ‘flecked’!
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             I used this once for this one:
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             crow-flecked
             
the jack of all moons
             rising rising

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             Alan Summers
             Scope Vol 62 No 1, February 2016
             (The magazine of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Qld) Inc)
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             Your haiku is absolutely stunning by the way, and accurately conjures up Wales (and other aspects of British countryside).
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             Carol said:
             “It’s a view I never tire seeing”
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             You should definitely keep writing and storing notes about the view the different aspects of each season onwards. Just rough notes, and once you’ve got enough, a page or two, or more, you will have plenty to create fully-fledged haiku that capture a year of the view you never tire watching.

             1. thanks Margo, Alan & Carol for these encouraging words

             2. Many thanks Alan.
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                Your verse is absolutely brilliant. You take this genre to a higher level, no doubt of that, and always a pleasure to read. I certainly will keep taking notes 🙂

             3. Thanks Carol,
                That’s very kind! I just get excited at how we all push the genre, and engage with it. Can’t wait to read what you’ll deliver next week! 🙂

15. I love the mountains. My ancestors came from the mountains, and I have always felt at home living in the shadow of the Cascade and Olympic ranges. When it’s summer and others run to the beach I go to the mountains where the air is thin.

    I love these haiku–each one it’s own ascent to a new moment, idea, or image.

    Amen to Vishnu Kapoor: “who says I cannot walk over clouds”.

    1. thanks so much for sharing, Amy!

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    The extra gift of “found lines, wonderous lines”
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    Sometimes there are “lines within lines” of a haiku that sparkle and shine in their own right, an extra gift for us to enjoy, alongside the ‘full haiku’.
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    I hope this feature I’ve created makes you look again at each haiku, and read them differently, from another angle. It’s certainly made me appreciate every single one all over again! 🙂
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    “I look down at my fears” by Blessed Ayeyame
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    “the dipper hangs above” by Margaret Walker
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    “balloons soar to the mountaintop” by Sari Grandstaff
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    “foothills unravel before me” by Tia Haynes
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    “the great mountain majestic pose” by AJ. Anwar
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    “snake…a train through the mountains” by Adjei Agyei-Baah
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    “size is distance” by Adrian Bouter
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    “an unbroken view of pinks and blues” by Amy Baranski
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    “a 360 degree view of mist” by Andrew Shimield
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    “stepping over a small piece of sky” by Andy McLellan
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    “the first star behind the mountains” by Angela Giordano
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    “come and go shadows” by Angiola Inglese
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    “the rounded arch of a rainbow”
    by Anna Maria Domburg –Sancristoforo
     .
    “a lost field note” and “sawtooth sketches” by Anthony Rabang
     .
    “a silhouette wreathed in fire” by Ardelle Hollis Ray
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    “the way you left me” by arvinder kaur
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    “wildflowers line up along the road” by Barbara Kaufmann
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    “the old dog and I walk the ridge-top trail” by Barbara Tate
     .
    “along mountain trails my journey halts” by Basantkumar Das
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    “where the heavens touch the peaks” by Bob Whitmire
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    “a winding road follows nature’s path” by Bona M. Santos

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    “Olympus Mons by lens” by C.R. Harper
     .
    “patchwork greens flecked with sheep” by carol jones
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    “sleeping bags inside a dome of stars” by Carol Raisfeld
     .
    “at its foot petals on the wind” by cezar ciobika
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    “the inside Disneyland ride” by Charles Harmon
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    “bride waves from the horse buggy” by Christina Chin
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    “the bleakness of the sky search and rescue” by Christina Sng
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    “my mountain and the next and the…” by Christine Eales

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    “the mountains I wish to see” by Claire Vogel Camargo
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    “warm summer above the tree-line” by Corine Timmer
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    “down on the backs of circling vultures” by Craig Kittner
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    “waiting to exhale Fuji” by dl mattila
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    “Beneath the forest of thistles” and “a mountain chain of molehills”
    by David Gale
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    “the phone user gestures to infinity” by David Jacobs
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    And perhaps an allusion to Issa!
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    the turnip puller
    points the way to the road
    with a turnip
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    Issa (translation by R H Blyth)
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    “our one time passing only clouds” by David Oates
     .
    “the mountain a pool of pebbles” by Debbi Antebi
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    “the black holes between” by Debbie Strange
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    “the mountain that look you gave me” by Deborah P Kolodji
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    “glaciers creeping myrtle” by Devin Harrison
     .
    “up the mountainside a lone elk stands” by dianne moritz
     .
    “the almond blossom snow glitters” by Dubravka Šcukanec
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    “the stars frame even the mountains” by Eufemia Griffo
     .
    “clusters of alabaster clouds” by Giedra Kregzdys
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    “that curvy road leading home” by Giovanna Restuccia
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    “Mauna Kea a pueo soars” by Greer Woodward
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    “blood washed mist” by Guliz Mutlu
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    “the river a mountain village” by Hifsa Ashraf
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    “into the distance diminishing blues” by Ingrid Baluchi
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    “the city folded into glimpses” by Isabel Caves
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    “carry us mountain stream” by Joan Prefontaine
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    “right next to my shoe this tiny flower” by Joanne van Helvoort
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    “into darkness I turn off the news” by John S Green
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    “the mountain pass a curtain of stars” by John Hawkhead
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    “a condor flying the snowy peaks” by Julia Guzmán
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    “cloud cover I learn patience” by Kath Abela Wilson
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    “mist covers mountain challenge” by Kathleen Mazurowski
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    “mom’s ashes…alpenglow” by Kimberly Esser
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    “body prints…on the beginner slope” by Lamart Cooper
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    “even in darkness, twilight” by Laurie Greer
     
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    “recognizing my house on the horizon” by Leonardo Lazzari
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    This made me also read:
    “recognizing my house the horizon” which added a second layer of magic!
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    “the smiling faces when they’re halfway” by Lisa Cherrett
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    “shadows the mountains” by Lori Zajkowski
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    “Delphi looking for signs” by Lorraine Schein
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    “yet flowers bloom everywhere” by Lucia Cardillo
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    “old hut emptiness” by Lucy Whitehead
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    “mountain its all pervading” by Madhuri Pillai
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    “my mountain the border of light” by Margherita Petriccione
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    “the raven spots” by Margo Williams
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    I can read this as intended where ‘spots’ is a verb, it notices or sees, or observes. But the magical part of it also makes me see spots in front of my eyes, as a raven starts to appear or disappear into a column of smoke.
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    “mauve shadows cross a hillside” by Marietta McGregor
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    “pikes peak stream fool’s gold” by Marilyn Appl Walker
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    Wonderful tongue twisting rhythm! 🙂
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    “mountains the deep hues of heathers” by Marina Bellini
    or even:
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    “mountains the deep hues of heather” which reminds me of my visits to certain areas of Scotland.
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    “a cloud dawdles” by Mark Gilbert
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    “fingertips her breast’s scar”
    A wonderfully moving and mystical found line in the haiku by Marta Chocilowska

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    “a dab of sunset left over” by Martha Magenta
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    “always night’s artificial light” by michael ceraolo
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    “shadows undulate from the artist’s palette” by Michael Henry Lee
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    “old pine trees make way for cell towers” by Michael H. Lester
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    “from the clouds into the valley” by Michael Smeer
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    “the windmill’s blade burnishing” by Mike Gallagher
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    “silhouette of a mountain goat” by Mohammad Azim Khan
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    “late summer wedding…veiled in clouds and snow” by Nancy Brady
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    “the calendar cover…next lifetime” by Natalia Kuznetsova
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    “a crack in the rock edelweiss” by Olivier Schopfer
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    “litter bag still empty” by Pat Davis
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    “our mouths agape on the bullet train” by Pauline O’Carolan.
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    Shinkansen, ah shinkansen!
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    “one red feather drifts down mountain fog” by Peggy Bilbro
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    “a few faded blue islands moored to the valley” by Philip Whitley
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    “vanishing point of an eagle’s flight”
    and
    “an eagle’s flight alpenglow”
    by Polona Oblak
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    “close enough to the stars for wishes” by Pris Campbell
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    “the length of this blister” by Rachel Sutcliffe
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    “shivering mantra on my lips” by Radhamani Sarma
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    Wonderful line!
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    “all the colors still not named by Pantone” by Radostina Dragostinova
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    “only memories through the mountain’s fog” by Ramlawt Dinpuia
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    “into the fog out of the fog” by Randy Brooks
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    “where the mountain used to be” by Rehn Kovacic
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    “a rainbow stretching its wings” by Réka Nyitrai
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    “a cougar enters the viewfinder” by Roberta Beary
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    “creeping fog obscures” by robyn brooks
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    “looking right out of myself” by Ron C. Moss

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    “the ridge trail creases peak to peak” by ron scully
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    “the Black Hills light up” by Ronald K. Craig
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    “the blue colour of a little lake” by Rosa Maria Di Salvatore
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    “the top of the mountain looks out of the mist” by Serhiy Shpychenko
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    “to the mountains bats” by shandon land
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    “hasaki and hamon” Japanese swordsmithing!
    by simonj
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    “eagle’s nest the way the mountain slopes”
    by Skaidrite Stelzer
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    “a look down at the sun” by Slobodan Pupovac
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    “older now the mountain” by Stephen A. Peters
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    “mountain chapel wiping off the dust” by Susan Rogers
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    Incredibly moving.
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    “sliding off the mountain’s face” by Terri French
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    “climbing from summer to spring” by Tsanka Shishkova
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    “peaks form the letter M” by Valentina Ranaldi-Adams
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    “the mountain and our smile” by Vandana Parashar
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    “fire-breathing mountain” by Victor Ortiz
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    “who says I cannot walk over clouds” by Vishnu Kapoor
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    “the fire tower to look for my home” by Will Nixon
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    “lava trail selfies” by Willie Bongcaron
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    By focusing, or rather “re-focusing” on the lines, but in a different way, I re-discover the magic, and more magic, in all of the haiku, thank you!
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    Here’s one by my wife:
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    kilimanjaro –
    looking for the peak
    and then looking higher
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    Karen Hoy
    From: This Lion Country sequence (Serengeti)
    Published in Presence (issue 57 2017)
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    “and then looking higher” by Karen Hoy
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    1. Thank for your splendind gift, Alan! Your idea of “lines within lines and comments made me speechless!

       1. Thanks Marta!
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          It was a real eye opener for me, I might make this is a feature in my book. I don’t think we often see that ‘extra magic’ sometimes.
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          Alan
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          p.s.
          The line within a line of your haiku was amazing because ‘fingertips’ isn’t just a verb, it’s where the scar and breast and fingertips become one for a moment. Did you know just how special your haiku was?

          1. I know that already… thank you Alan for opening my eyes !
             m.

             1. Can we have two line haiku then?
                twin peak
                fingertips her breast’s scar

             2. Well, two line haiku are regularly done. 🙂
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                Yanty’s Butterfly has a two line section, and money goes to charity and to Yanty’s family:
                https://jsalzer.wixsite.com/yantysbutterfly
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                Available on Kindle, and worth every cent.
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                re:
                twin peak
                fingertips her breast’s scar
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                perhaps:
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                twin peaks
                fingertips her breast’s scar or scars has strong possibilities!

    2. Fabulous, Alan. I think you have found a jewel in each haiku, here, this list is something to be kept for reference.
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       Karen’s haiku is a fitting finale to the list, it has that ‘we can archive great things but we can do even better if we believe in ourselves’
       *
       Kind regards
       carol

       1. Thanks Carol!
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          Would you believe it, but Karen’s dad, when stationed over there, popped up Kilimanjaro with just his day uniform and ‘poke boots’. You might be too young, those boots are the old style British Army footwear, awful things. 🙂
          .
          Alan

          1. That is an amazing thing to have done, Alan, I can only assume he is a man that knew exactly what he was doing, not the kind of place to go for a casual stroll. I’ll do a search for the mentioned boots, I think I’m going to be even more shocked.
             My first reaction when reading your story ‘WHAT’
             Thanks for sharing,

             1. Hi Carol,

                They were just standard army boots (hadn’t changed since WWII), awful things for the British to have unlike the wonderful American boots! As I had them in cadets I know how bad they were!

                Poke boots aka British Army standard footwear for infantry:
                http://www.sofmilitary.co.uk/british-army-black-ww2-ammo-boots-by-kay-canvas-product,11473

    3. It’s fun playing with words like this. excellent! thanks, Alan.

       thanks Kathy for this wonderful collection of haiku!

       blessings!

       Hifsa

       1. Thanks! Of course there was a serious side to the exercise too. 🙂
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          Did you see that not only do you have a wonderful pivot line in ‘across the river’…
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          clouds of smoke
          across the river
          a mountain village
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          Hifsa Ashraf
          Pakistan
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          But that section I lifted out…
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          “the river a mountain village”
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          … has a magic all of its own.

    4. Dear esteemed poet,
       Greetings, delighted to through –the great pleasure and gift of yours
       “lines within lines -wondrous lines”. Again a chance to go through all haiku and from your
       good self a flow of encouragement . I am thrice blessed and happy to be one among of the selected.
       with regards
       S.Radhamani

       1. Thank you S.Radhamani, a wonderful person as well as writer.
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          snowy peak
          shivering mantra
          on my lips
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          Radhamani Sarma
          Chennai, India
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          Wonderful poem, and a delight to highlight those lines.

    5. Fantastic exercise you have introduced!

       Thank you for the always fresh perspective—enlightening.
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       pooping
       outside the box
       my free thinking cat
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       Alan, I know you have a healthy sense of humor . . . ha!

       1. Schrödinger’s cat walked into a bar and asked for something, but we’ll never know what. 😉
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          Ah, did Gary tell you? 🙂
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          Alan

          1. Gary?

             Schrödinger?

             1. Gary Evans from your haiku group? 🙂
                And the cat in the box, not the lady from 2A. 🙂
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgRViUJ3J4E

             2. Thanks for the insight to Schrödinger’s cat—funny clip.
                I figured it out on my own . . . your humor.

    6. Choosing and pulling lines within lines, great idea, Alan. I could see you arranging and ‘re-arranging all of these single lines into a longer format poem. It could be awesome. Nancy Brady

       1. That is a fascinating idea, and I can see that if individual poets pulled lines from their own collection of haiku and senryu they could create a “Found poem”, almost doing Found poetry in reverse! 🙂

    7. fascinating… thanks so much, as always, Alan, & to all the others for these great comments!
       So inspiring!

17. Thank you so much–what enjoyment reading about mountains the world over!! …and I learned something from Michael Smeer–there are no real mountains in the Netherlands.

    1. thanks for this Barbara!

18. A lovely selection!
    It’s a pleasure reading these marvelous haiku.

    1. thanks Giovanna!

19. Thank you for selecting my ku among so many great ones, Katherine.

    1. thanks for submitting, Michael!

20. Thanks for including mine – inspired by Mount Hood in the US Cascade Range (not Coast Range as I said in my submission)

    1. thanks for this Mark!

21. W
    onderful poems!Thanks for publishing one of mine. Congratulations to all

    1. thanks for this Margherita!

22. What wonderful vistas viewed in this collection, Kathy. Mountain ranges from nearly continent from so many perspectives of travel and experience. Thanks for including one of mine.

    1. thanks for submitting Nancy!

23. A lovely selection from everywhere and a great way to travel from my armchair – up, down, by, through and in and out of all these mountains.
    Thank you kj for selecting one of mine.

    1. thanks for this Ingrid!

24. Kathy, thank-you for publishing one of mine. Congratulations to all the other poets !!

    1. thanks for submitting, Valentina!

25. Thank you again for including me.
    A dipper is also a little bird that feeds in mountain streams. They sometimes even brood behind waterfalls. Facinating little birds!

    1. thanks for this Joanne!

26. Thank you kjmunro for including my haiku as well as the comment. A wonderful collections it is and I am excited to be part of it!

    1. thanks for your kind words!

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