Per Diem for October 2019: Death
Per Diem: Daily Haiku for October 2019 features Anna Maris’ collection on the theme of ‘death’. This is what Anna has to say by way of an introduction to her theme:
The seasons are a fundamental subject in haiku, integral to the form, where birth, growth, decline and death signifies not only the cycle of the year, but often also our own brief human lives. The significance of death as a theme is universal to us as humans, and something that we spend our lives fearing, exploring and coming to terms with. At the end of October, death has its own celebrations in All Hallows’ Eve, Samhain, Höstblot, Halloween and Dias Muertas. But death is also related to light, and so we return to it during this, for many, dark month of the year.
– Anna Maris
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attached to nothing a butterfly’s death
My monostich submission for THF Per Diem.
Dear Michael Smeer,
No better tribute to your granddad than this one; ” warm pebble” an apt image for softening the mood.
with regards
S.Radhamani
height x breadth x depth
ah, wilderness!
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bluebell woods you left too early
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Caroline Skanne
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This struck me in many ways. Is it a simple walk through the woods at the magnificent time of bluebells? Is this a couple where one of them is not as enamoured of wildlife as the other partner? Is it about loss, perhaps the further loss of childhood when we lose not just one parent but both parents?
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The more I read the poem the more layers, from a partner who might have left to get something practical, but missed a particular sighting, a moment that will have to be let go. Or something about letting go of childhood, and do we really have to let go of everything?
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From:
Travelling the single line of haiku – one line haiku / monoku / monostich
https://area17.blogspot.com/2016/12/travelling-single-line-of-haiku-one.html
making inroads
into her cells day by day
a silent journey
until the final call
an accepted therapy
cross-stitch from the
grandmother I didn’t meet:
“Put the coffee on”
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Parnassus Literary Journal (2004)
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Ellen Olinger – Three Questions, haiku series edited by Curtis Dunlap.
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Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
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dew
bearing sun
in its gut
reflecting
stars
in its eyes
handshake
tender
going up
to the endless wisdom
shine
never worn out
in my old age
this coming
of a shadow
I can’t recall
its likeness
Dear Steve,
in my old age
this coming
of a shadow
I can’t recall
its likeness
single image of shadow running through — beautifully still painful.
with regards
S.Radhamani
A wonderful theme because it is such a strong and true fact that we carry with us from the second we are born. We are alive but for such a short, regardless of the length of our individual life term.
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my inevitable death mayflies
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i.m. Terry Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015)
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Alan Summers
One-line haiku published by Bones journal issue 6 (March 15, 2015)
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About Terry Pratchett:
https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/about-sir-terry/
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A co-founding editor of Bones we would occasionally drop a haiku into the odd issue under a pseudonym so mine was “Snibril Fray” which Discworld fans might work out. 🙂
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Bones 6: https://bonesjournal.com/no6/bones6.pdf
home far away
after two steps the sea …
October sun
grape must …
on the empty bottles
crow’s shadow
after sunset
light trails…
autumn shadows
together with the sun
going and coming back …
autumn shadows
light beams…
shadows of black birds
on Ground Zero
children at school…
swallows in migration
beyond the sea
only a dog
with the hanged man…
summer evening
chrysanthemum…
born to wither
on a grave
sea lilies…
child’s shoe
a few steps
fake flowers…
in the shade of cypress trees
north wind
all watching
cutting the cake…
grandfather’s party
no flowers…
in garden with me
my roses