HAIKU DIALOGUE – Poet’s Choice – wine & introducing Gourmet Gallery

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1. kathy j munro….i just sent in the theme for haiku dialogue-gourmet-sight…about 7:17 am, 10/05/2019 on Saturday….kindly tell me if you received it.

   1. Wendy,
      This submission has not been received – you can re-send it if you like, or plan to add it to the comments when the post goes live on Wednesday, as we are doing, for now…
      thanks, kj

      1. Kathy i just resent….did you receive it? about 12:10 or so pm
         i changed a setting in my browser to see if this makes any difference….

         1. submission received!
            thanks, kj

            1. thank you kj, can you tell me what the time of that post you received was? Because i experimented with three or four different approaches….and i want to match it up with the one that got through. Thank you in advance. -w-

            2. Wendy – received Sat Oct 5 at 2:38 pm, & I think that is Pacific Time

2. Thank you so much for putting this collection together Kathy and for featuring mine here too. I was especially taken with the imagery in:
   .
   a long night
   many stories
   behind the bottles
   .
   Neni Rusliana
   Indonesia

   1. Lovely!

3. .
   glass ceiling…
   another witness retracts
   their testimony

   Alan Summers
   The Rookery, Wiltshire, England
   .
   wonderful juxtaposition. seeing things differently with a bit of coercion, eh?

4. BIRDS OF A FEATHER….
   these three poet’s give
   homage to poe

   wendy c. bialek

   *

   ravenously thirsty
   we gulp when we hear
   the tap on the door

   Sari Grandstaff

   *

   leftover wine
   those lingering notes
   of the raven

   wendy c. bialek

   prescott valley, az usa

   *

   wine hangover
   I’ll never drink again—
   nevermore
   .
   Tomislav Sjekioca

   There may be more….i have not finished reading through all the poems.

5. Some lovely ku this week (as a fully paid-up member of the corvid fan club these are right up my street). Stand-out poems for me are:

   Christina Chin’s:

   unspeaking couple
   the man clicks
   a lighter

   …..okay, not a corvid in sight, but incredibly sinister nevertheless.

   and Claire Vogel Camargo’s uncomfortably familiar:

   the raven’s
   sunlit strut
   contest win

   …..says it all.

   Lastly a big thank you, as always, to Kathy for all your hard work. It really is appreciated.

6. When I saw the photo prompt for this week my first thought was “those haikuists and their crows!” Thus my contribution re lifting our glasses to the crow, thought it sounded a little better than raven in the context, when I saw the notebook on the table and more than two glasses. Then add wine and what a fun prompt. Thank you Kathy.
   *
   holy waters
   between russets and gold
   a raven’s call
   *
   Xenia Tran
   *
   Lovely mix of images.
   *
   bright and dark wine
   for both sides of my soul
   cheers
   *
   Slobodan Pupovac
   *
   Nice surprise in the last line.
   *
   empty wine bottles
   a black raven
   still crossing my path
   *
   Eufemia Griffo
   *
   The word “still” tells the story.
   *
   di vino scrivere:
   senza segreti le sue parole
   .
   of wine – divine – to write:
   without secrets her words
   *
   Giuliana Ravaglia
   *
   Plz excuse the short dashes as I’m using my phone. I found this lovely and intriguing.

   1. Thank you so much for your kind comment Debbie :o)

7. Here’s my haiku. Thought I’d met the deadline, but it would have been close to the wire.

   Rorschach ravens
   dark omens
   in a white wine

   Greer Woodward
   Waimea, HI

   1. Greer – this was not received – thanks for posting it here! Can you please confirm when you sent it, & did you receive an acknowledgement after submitting? kj

      1. Hi kj,

         Thanks for looking into this. As I recall, I sent my haiku within two hours of the deadline, although I think it was closer to midnight. I remember getting an acknowledgement after sending.

         Thank you and aloha,

         Greer Woodward
         Waimea, Hi

         1. thanks for this, Greer!

   2. Liked this a lot!

8. ravenously thirsty
   we gulp when we hear
   the tap on the door

   Sari Grandstaff

   ode to poe’s the raven, Sari Grandstaff and i think alike.

   1. Yes, Wendy, and also this –
      .
      wine hangover
      I’ll never drink again—
      nevermore
      .
      Tomislav Sjekioca
      .
      Tiredness from ‘over doing it’ what ever form that could be, can bring forth many interesting illusions or even delusions.

      1. Sorry….Correction….no apostrophe in poets (in my above post)

         BIRDS OF A FEATHER….
         these three poets give
         homage to poe

         wendy c. bialek

         *poe’s “the raven

         Yes, Carol….did not leave Tomislav out on purpose….i had not finished posting and reading through all the wonderful poems yet….between my whining here…my garage door isn’t opening, and the last monsoon rain…broke a hole in my roof….so my attentions have been split.

         There may even be more….i will find them…please…to be patient.

   2. Thank you, Wendy!

      1. welcome, Sari

9. ravens circling around the slumberous pupils

   Hifsa Ashraf
   Pakistan

   love the sound and poetic imagery here, Hifsa

10. Cezar’s poem leaves a great deal of room to dream, and i like that.

    Autumn sunset
    all the red wine
    he didn’t taste

    cezar ciobîcă

11. Congratulations to ALL and Thank you, dear Kathy Munro! 🥂

12. at first reading i thought it was a birthing…on second reading it is another form of birth….

    son’s coming out
    …a heavy silence
    before the toast
    .
    Vandana Parashar

13. This one is neatly wrapped….or should i say, Peters unwrapped?

    empty wine bottles
    the bird in my head
    uncaged

    Stephen A. Peters

14. This is one of my fav’s for this week. I like it because i can see it,
    Claire in very few words…has managed to get the essence of the look of a raven….when the sun shines on its glossy feathers….and the proud walk from side to side….in the “strut “and “contest win”.

    the raven’s
    sunlit strut
    contest win

    Claire Vogel Camargo

15. Dear Kathy Munro,
    Greetings. Delighted to be included and to see mine here in this wonderful blog. My favorite for this week of so many follows thus: the image making us re read into the content ,delving into human aspect, as i see.

    blue sage flowers
    in light and shadow
    truth about us

    Lucia Fontana

16. Thank you Kathy and contributors for this dizzying collection. Here are three of my favourites:
    .

    son’s coming out
    …a heavy silence
    before the toast
    .
    Vandana Parashar
    .
    .
    starry night
    the taste of laughter
    on my palate
    .
    Veronika Zora Novak
    .
    .
    blood work
    filling another glass
    with red
    .
    Laurie Greer
    Washington, D.C.

17. As I have stated below, for all you wonderful poets – if you submitted a poem on the Contact Form & it is not listed above, please add it here in the comments, & include the details of your submission so I can forward them to the volunteer team who are working towards a solution…
    & for all you wonderful readers – remember to read through these comments for additional poems & other wonderful insights & discussions…
    thank you all for your understanding! kj

18. all the submissions of this week’s prompt on wine are NOT listed, i ask that discussion be placed on hold until all the additional wonderful poems are included. Thank you in advance for your courtesy.

    1. Wendy – please see above & below – I do hope we find a solution to this problem soon…
       kj

       1. KJ..what is the new theory that is being investigated, now? And if you don’t mind….a little more “whine”….i feel that my poems have been most impacted by this problem….so why are you not willing to place mine up with the rest of the group? Where is the difficulty there? Do you think i am pretending that i am submitting? Why can’t you legitimize my submission by posting it with the others? it takes less time than all the posts you have been giving me….i don’t understand…please explain your reluctance on this matter? I see my entry theme in the window….why can’t you?

          1. an update for you Wendy – the email account used by the contact form has no record of you on Sept 25 or 28, which means that any text you entered into the contact form on those days was not sent on… what browser are you using?

             1. Wendy – it is the people who are looking into this problem who have asked for the information about your browser…

             2. KJ -do they know the browser is the same one i have been using for all my time since i joined here….if there was any “incompatibility”, (if that is what they are going for)…why would so many other poems reach you and the recent post on haiga..on the 30th, the one you found? Can you explain the logic about looking into my browser as an answer?

19. .
    within the cacophony
    of whiny conversation
    I keep my beak shut
    .

    1. This was the haiku I sent in last Saturday at 9:10pm Pacific Coast Time. I use Safari and a MacBook Pro. I did receive an acknowledgment of success. My poems go through about 75% of the time.

       1. thanks so much for this, John – we will look into this further!

20. Many thanks, Kathy for including my verse amongst this heady collection of poems.

21. Please add Robert’s above and mine here, thank you in advance.

    leftover wine
    those lingering notes
    of the raven

    wendy c. bialek

    prescott valley, az usa

    Kathy J. M…..this is my entry….i posted it twice, Wednesday 9/25/2019 at 9:16 pm and Saturday at 7:05 am 9/28/2019 …guess there are still issues with “toasting” every post.

    1. Wendy,
       I am sorry to say that your poem was not received yet again – I did receive a submission from you on Monday 30 Sept with the subject line ‘haiga’, but I don’t believe it was meant for this column…
       I will be forwarding these details to the team members who are still looking into this unfortunate situation… in the meantime, the solution moving forward will be to have poets include any missing poems in these comments – I am not planning to revise the column as you suggest, & I appreciate your understanding, kj

       1. kj. i always start it by using the topic: haiku dialogue-
          in this case: either
          wine or raven wine

          please check again.

          Kathy J. M…..this is my entry….i posted it twice, Wednesday 9/25/2019 at 9:16 pm and Saturday at 7:05 am 9/28/2019 …guess there are still issues with “toasting” every post.

          **********

          leftover wine
          those lingering notes
          of the raven

          wendy c. bialek

          prescott valley, az usa

          *************

          Kathy J. M…..this is my entry….i posted it twice, Wednesday 9/25/2019 at 9:16 pm and Saturday at 7:05 am 9/28/2019 …guess there are still issues with “toasting” every post.

          1. Wendy,
             The submission I received was on Monday 30 September, 10:10 am, from your name & email address, with the subject line ‘haiga’, & the message was ‘i would like to submit my haiga for consideration’
             If you did not send this, then I’m not sure what to think!

             1. Yes, KJ i sent haiga….but not to you….it was somewhere else on the blog.

                kindly look into the one(s) that i mentioned that say:

                haiku dialogue-raven wine
                9/25/2019 at 9:16 pm wednesday and
                9/28/2019 at 7:05 am saturday

                leftover wine
                those lingering notes
                of the raven

                wendy c. bialek

                prescott valley, az usa

             2. an update for you Wendy – the email account used by the contact form has no record of you on Sept 25 or 28, which means that any text you entered into the contact form on those days was not sent on… what browser are you using?

             3. Oct. 3, 2019 update for kj….i sent it…it is there….it is in the window, and i am using the same browser that i always have been using….nothing has changed. My browser is not the problem…it makes no logical sense to bark up that tree.
                why bother to have people…volunteer to look into this problem….if the goal is to serve wine to all?
                why not just believe me and copy and paste my poem?
                I have posted my poems religiously to this group since i joined, with one exception when i was sick…..I did everything right!

22. This picture offered so many ways to go–I was especially taken with these:
    *
    empty wine bottles
    the bird in my head
    uncaged

    Stephen A. Peters

    *
    the uninhibited poet talking–with a nice sense of wine giddiness. Imaginative and evocative use of the prompt.
    *
    equinox
    the right balance
    between light and dark

    Serhiy Shpychenko
    *
    Again, great use of the prompt’s details. I like how the lines accrue syllables one by one, building a nice stability and thus expanding the ideas of “balance.”
    *
    black
    against the white sky – whisper
    of raven feathers

    Peggy Bilbro
    Huntsville Alabama
    *
    a masterful synethstetic reading experience–sight to sound and back
    *
    seeing the light
    in a bottle of wine –
    an unkindness of ravens

    Ingrid Baluchi
    Macedonia

    *
    probably my favorite this week–so sure and deft, with a nice surprise: the truth is not necessarily what we want!

    *
    in the DEEP DARK
    of Dorian
    the call of ravens

    Susan Rogers
    Los Angeles, CA, USA

    *
    so many birds get sucked into the eye of hurricanes–a beautiful and frightening evocation of their difficult situation
    *

    thanks for contributing, one and all-
    best

    1. Thank you very much, Laurie!

    2. Thank you once again, Laurie!
       Having several times looked after injured crows, I came to respect the entire corvus family.
       On one comical occasion, observing a raven sauntering down our garden path, I saw it suddenly stop, bend down and, from beneath a flap of lawn overgrowing the stones, pick out a bright red geranium petal. I could have sworn that it did a little hop of glee.
       Incredibly, for many minutes and all on its own, as if this were the grandest entertainment in all the world, it continued to ‘hide’ the petal several more times under different flaps, saunter nonchalantly away from them, wings folded behind its back like someone on their daily constitutional, return after a bit and pounce on its treasure. Hard to resist rushing out to hug the fellow, but regret not having means to film it.

       1. Wonderful story, Ingrid! I see crows every day and continue to marvel at their calls and swoops and everything else. I can just picture that dance of glee.

    3. Laurie, thank you for commenting on my poem. You’ve caught exactly the synesthesia I hoped to communicate.

    4. Thank you Laurie so much for responding to the raven haiku
       I was also thinking that ravens are associated with tragedy and death and their call of grief would be not only in the wind but in the wine and the sonorous whine of the wine.

23. Thank you Kathy for the interesting photo prompt this week. Looking forward to new theme too. The haiku by Stephen Peters and Kath Abela Wilson stood out for me as revelations of a haiku moment. In both of these I love the good use of multiple meanings in the word choices. Ravens and wine are both so evocative of moods:

    empty wine bottles
    the bird in my head
    uncaged

    Stephen A. Peters

    smooth bright
    the raven’s gaze
    its deep dark body

    Kath Abela Wilson
    Pasadena, CA

24. Autumn sunset
    a crow picks
    amongst the leaves
    .
    Sorry KJ, thought I’d posted this Friday.

    1. Robert – this was not received – thanks for posting it here! I will be forwarding the details in our on-going investigation of figuring out why some of these are not coming through on the Contact Form – did you receive an acknowledgement after submitting?

       1. Thank you KJ
          It was a busy day Friday, I know I filled the boxes in but may not have pressed send. Unusual for me I know. No concern though. Thank you for allowing it to be posted here. Yet again I have thoroughly enjoyed your prompts.

          1. t-y!

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