Sharon Morrison
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Haiku of the Day for May 2024 features Guest Editor Sharon Morrison’s collection on the theme of Home. Here are her thoughts on the theme of Home.
 When I was given the opportunity to be a guest editor of Per Diem, I checked over past subjects. It seemed every slant on every plant and being, clouds moons sky rain , every state of nature was covered. So I looked at Home, an unnatural place where nature did pop up.   The life of haiku moments in the home often fall around nature in some way for eg. from May’s Per Diem haiku – a ‘pine-lined room’, what was out a window or coming in the door,  sunrise, sunset, and moonlight – the lively elements are natural. The haiku moments of Home are alive with our attention if nothing else ;>)  Come look through the windows into May’s Home!
—Sharon Morrison
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I start to rain
and into falling leaves
my childhood
Alan Summers
Troutswirl – The Haiku Foundation – A Sense of Place: HIKING TRAIL – sight ed. kjmunro
Anthology credit:
All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019) ed. Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press (18 Oct. 2019) ISBN-10: 173412542 ISBN-13: 978-1734125429
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low slung river
thoughts of home
and lemon trout
Alan Summers
Publication credit: Brass Bell haiku journal ed. Zee Zahava (May 2021)
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childhood river the sunlight as it falls
Alan Summers
Publication: Presence #62 (November 2018)
Anthology credit: All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku (2019) ed. Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press (18 Oct. 2019) ISBN-10: 173412542 ISBN-13: 978-1734125429
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reading memoirs
and then the view
outside today
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
February 23, 2015
All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku
Edited by Robert Epstein
Middle Island Press, 2019
Intimations
Wattle & Daub
first home
the old pear tree
gives a leg up
Mortar & Pestle
second childhood
all the pencil marks
leave their walls
Cladding
busted moon
a little boy
stuck upstairs
Concrete
next childhood
the family home
gains a flaw
Pine
attic motes
the wasps caught
in window nets
Atticus
attic time
the boy gains
a superhero
Glass
super 8
the rattle
of family
Curtain call
last hurrah
ghosts under lock
turn their keys
Alan Summers
“Intimations” sequence
Bones – journal for contemporary haiku no. 14
November 15th 2017
web link if the layout doesn’t appear in the post:
http://www.bonesjournal.com/no14/bones14.pdf
sunrise . . .
some water
for the chrysanthemum
hedgerow #133, autumn 2020
Caroline Skanne is the Editor.
Daily Haiku: February 16, 2021
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog
Home garden
Children are grown
Memories
new home
she promises me the world
in a lilac tree
Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Hedgerow #99(2016) ed. Caroline Skanne
from the “Homecomings” haiku sequence
small study
and books to read
days with longer light
poem credits:
Akitsu Quarterly, Spring 2022 – Robin White, Editor
Charlotte Digregorio’s Writer’s Blog – May 10, 2022
Our Garden: The Haiku Foundation Volunteer Anthology 2022 – edited by Jim Kacian & Julie Bloss Kelsey