Book of the Week: 70 Sevens

Lorraine Ellis Harr , or Tombo (the japanese word meaning “dragonfly”), was one of the leading champions of haiku in English in the earliest days of the haiku movement. In addition to serving as founder and president of Western World Haiku Society, she was a prolific author. Many of her books were theme-based, as this one (Middlewood Press, 1986), which features 7 poems each on 70 topics.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by Jim Kacian, following a concept first explored by Tom Clausen, and are used with permission.

Obscured by clouds—
still sunflowers folllow
the sun’s passage

The hawk’s cry—
it cuts through the cold
   of autumn rain

between twinkle of stars
and twinkle of fireflies
all this darkness

Cicada’s cries—
pushing beyond the edges
     of the stubble field

First wind of autumn—
smile of the billboard girl
peels down the sign

Moonless night;
   little glints of silver fish
in the rolling waves