Jacob Salzer
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Haiku of the Day for February 2023 features Guest Editor Jacob Salzer’s collection on the theme of trees. This is what Jacob has to say by way of introduction to this theme:
Trees store carbon, provide oxygen, and are the homes for birds and things we cannot see. In cities, their cool shade helps regulate warm city temperatures. As a result, trees save big cities millions of dollars each year by reducing costs for public health; they manage stormwater, naturally filter city water (instead of using large, expensive man-made water filters), improve air quality, lower electricity costs through energy savings, and they also prevent soil erosion. In Indigenous cultures, trees are sometimes called the one-leggeds; they are seen as part of a larger family. I chose tree-related haiku to honor these spiritual giants and the haiku poets who noticed them.
—Jacob D. Salzer
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The theme of ‘Tree’ is aesthetic and contemporary. Thank you, Jacob, for your beautiful write-up. I wish to share the following poems of mine for reading pleasure.
moving closer
to the old pipal tree–
I talk to myself
Otata 23, November 2017 (Ed. John Martone)
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pine trees
each pointing
to the stars
Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, May 2, 2022 (Ed. Kahleen Trocmet)
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friendship day how thoughtfully birds live with the trees
Presence # 73, 2022 (Ed. Ian Storr)
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rows of trees
along stretched seashore
remain speechless
perhaps the oceanic vastness
interacting in deep silence
Simply Haiku, Summer 2012, Vol.10 No.1 (Eds. Robert D. Wilson and Sasa Vazic)
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why keep
seeds in a jar
the trees
climb up the sky
showering flowers of joy
Presence # 74, 2022 (Ed. Alison Williams)
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we can draft an atlas
reciting the anthem of unity
to pour rains of hope
we can endure living merrily
like the trees residing side by side
Contemporary Haibun Online, Issue 18.3, 2022 (Ed, Tish Davis)
(Haibun: In search of solace)
Pravat
Wonderful topic! 🙂
It was incredible observing and not disturbing the bird (Firecrest) moving from one specific tree to another:
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oak and alder
the firecrest weaves
a restless song
Alan Summers
Commended, Anam Cara 2019 Haiku Competition (Ireland)
The Comfort of Crows by Hifsa Ashraf & Alan Summers
(Velvet Dusk Publishing, December 2019)
https://tinyurl.com/ComfortOfCrows