Elehna de Sousa
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Haiku of the Day for March 2023 features Guest Editor Elehna de Sousa’s collection on the theme of spring. This is what Elehna has to say by way of introduction to this theme:
Spring, and a new cycle of wonder begins!
What began as a somewhat daunting task quickly became a deeply enriching experience as I reached out to the haiku community, received poems and savoured each and every one of them with delight and admiration.
It has been a privilege and a pleasure for me and I hope you enjoy reading these varied poetic expressions of the season as much as I enjoyed putting them together.
—Elehna de Sousa
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The “leaf wind” haiku is wonderful. The “leaf wind” is so much the wind–through leaves, with leaves, wind and leaves moving together, becoming one. And I can perfectly see those frogs–game of catch– catching the pond.
Thanks Ulrike! 🙂
leaf wind
just enough frogs
to catch a pond
Alan Summers
list vjetar
dostatno žaba
da se uhvati bara
trans. Tomislav Maretić
Samobor Haiku Meeting 25th anniversary anthology (Croatia 2017)
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Yes, something special about the interaction of leaves and the wind, some look like smalti (mosaic pieces) from a distance! 🙂
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Another “leaf wind” haiku this time set in autumn:
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old tales
moon-bright leaves
jostle the breeze
Alan Summers
Wild Plum 1:1 (Spring & Summer 2015) ed. Gabriel Sawicki
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Spring is making a late appearance in my Northwest Coastal peninsula, Elehna, so I am really looking forward to reading poems that will bring a little spring into my life! Thanks for all you do.
Carole
Looking forward to read Spring poems. Spring in India brings joy of colours with Holi.
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Holi —
a new palette of colours
in the translucent sky
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I will look forward to Spring unfolding haiku by haiku in this feature!
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Three by me:
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birth mother visit a cabbie talks of spring equinoxes
Alan Summers
proletaria politics philosophy phenomena (1st April 2019) ed. Elancharan Gunasekaran
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leaf wind
just enough frogs
to catch a pond
Alan Summers
list vjetar
dostatno žaba
da se uhvati bara
trans. Tomislav Maretić
Samobor Haiku Meeting 25th anniversary anthology (Croatia 2017)
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coolness of spring rain
waiting with the bus queue
on newly cut hair
Alan Summers
Commended, Mainichi Shimbun 125th Anniversary Haiku Contest, Japan
Mainichi Shimbun 125th Anniversary Anthology (Japan 1997)