Poet Profile

Jane Williams

Jane Williams is an award-winning Australian poet and writer based in Tasmania. While the majority of her published poetry has been free verse, she has also maintained a keen interest in traditional and contemporary/experimental writing inspired by a range of Japanese short forms. Her haiku, haibun and haiga [see https://haigablog.wordpress.com/] have been published in a variety of journals over the years. She is passionate about travelling, photographing and collaborating with other artists. She is the author of five collections of poems, some of which contain haiku as part of haibun. Her blog: https://bridgeguardblog.wordpress.com/.

dawn silhouette inside my falling dream my flying dream

skinny dipping
my sister leads me into
my fiftieth year

low tide
in the gull's footprints
echoes of flight

still water
the heron's twin
head in the clouds

my father's country
each year he goes home
for the last time

suicide bomber
the computer generates
a human face

Credits: "dawn silhouette" - Chrysanthemum (October 2015); "low tide" - Daily Haiga (October 17, 2015); "my father's country" - Daily Haiga (November 26, 2015); "skinny dipping" - Cattails (September 2015); "still water" - Hedgerow (July 2015); "suicide bomber" - Haiku News (August 20, 2012).