Poet Profile

Hal Cantwell

Hal Cantwell

Born: April 26 1955 in Uravan Colorado, USA
Resides: Norman, Oklahoma, USA
E-mail: hcantwell (at) cox (dot) net

It is about a journey among those things that initiate, inform, and inspire my mind's eye and the images and poetry that result. I have been creating and publishing photographic images for many years and have just begun to do so with my poems.

Selected Work
 
edge of day
across the prairie
the scrape of wind
 
prairie wind
burnt by endless sun
summer’s last day
 
 
 
Great Plains March
the old farmhouse locked
in silence
 
budget meeting
my mind focused on
. . . wildflowers
 
 
 
mockingbird silent
through a spring blizzard
new wind chimes
 
old windmill
shaking and clattering fills
the silence
 
 

Credits: "edge of day" - Simply Haiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry 7:1 (2009); "Great Plains March" - World Haiku Association website [Published as haiga] (February 2010); "mockingbird silent" - World Haiku Association website [Published as haiga] (April 2009); "prairie wind" - contemporary haibun volume 10 (Red Moon Press, 2009); "budget meeting" - World Haiku Association website [Published as haiga] (May 2010); "old windmill" - World Haiku Association website [Published as haiga] (July 2009).

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