ASAHI HAIKUIST NETWORK
By David McMurray
2011/01/07
Such a joy
to read, write haiku
one year's passed
--Satoru Kanematsu (Nagoya)
* * *
Pulling silver
from black hair
reversing time
--Angelika Kolompar (Canada)
* * *
Christmas moon
the black frost
creaks
--Ramona Linke (Germany)
* * *
New Year's wind
hometown cedar scent
to the clouds
--Hajimu Hirakata (Tokyo)
* * *
Ticking watch...
short strides in the darkness
the old year
--Romano Zeraschi (Italy)
* * *
Fourteen of us
including a newborn
pray for happiness
--Fusayo Kawano (Fukuoka Prefecture)
* * *
At the barbershop
a haircut for the New Year
light snowflakes
--Richard Jodoin (Canada)
* * *
Golden jubilee
Cruising the world
New Year's dream
--Mickey Nasu (Tokyo)
* * *
A burnt kebab
a sudden shower
tomorrow silence
--Gwilym Williams (Austria)
* * *
New Year's Day
Greetings blow cross the ocean
Family and friends
--Shanshan Chen (Xian, China)
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The year quietly
comes to an end and closes--
two worn book covers
Cozy in his favorite reading chair at home in Iwate, Kevin C. Kato closes the book on another year with a robust and satisfying 5-7-5 syllable haiku. Nothing more needs to be added. He had several haiku published in 2010 and enjoyed reading many more because it was a very good year for haikuists. Twenty-seven issues of the Asahi Haikuist were printed. Colorful haiga sketches and 270 fine haiku are highlighted on the homepage for the Asahi Haikuist Network where you can enjoy reading them again and again.
Kato forecasts the Year of the Rabbit will be difficult around the world. A troubled economy made last year an uphill battle for small shop owners in Tokyo, notes Hajimu Hirakita. Asako Utsunomiya and a pair of ducks witnessed lots of people out shopping in Hiroshima.
Down the rabbit hole
the world continues to fall--
Wonderland awaits
* * *
This year in farewell
crest on the shop curtain
up the slope
* * *
Bridge bustles with shoppers
a pair of ducks
on the river
Adam Augustin chuckled when he overheard someone demanding a guarantee on their first purchase of the year.
New Year--
buying a calendar
demanding guarantees
Tatsuko Toshima's neighbors are happy despite the heavy snows that recently hit Aomori city. The winter moon over Ohio played with Nancy Brady. North Carolina was also snowed under, according to Charlie Smith. Lucas Garczewski is recovering from a "mild case of frostbite, as the sidewalks of Poznan, Poland, are completely covered by snow."
Snow disaster
people happy
white Christmas
* * *
Winter solstice
full moon plays peek-a-boo
with the earth
* * *
New Year's dawn
rabbit on the moon
drawn in snow
* * *
Snow everywhere--
carefully following
a stranger's footsteps
Canadian haikuist John Hamley writes a proverb about the passage of time. Rahadian Tanjung looks forward to a festive New Year in Indonesia.
The New Year
will still be there
tomorrow
* * *
The lunch boxes
and pieces of pickled radish
delivered on time
A professor of English in Kitakyushu, Yuji Hayashi sketches a peaceful scene. Richard Jodoin sends greetings from his mother in Montreal, Canada.
New Year's Eve
distant temple bells
snoring child
* * *
New Year's Eve
my old mother snores
another year
Shingo Tsuge enjoyed watching candles burning near his campus at Nagoya University. Michael Corr responds to a haiku by Maya Fujita thanking her instructor for teaching her how to write haiku in English.
Silence
candle wax melts
night snow
* * *
Thank you for
your good lesson
See you soon
* * *
You'll soon see
winter birds savor
thistle seed
Isao Soematsu pens his New Year's resolution. Cezar Ciobica has writer's block. Dale Halligan dreams of winter ghosts.
Metamorphosis
from night owl to
early bird
* * *
End of the year--
blank page in my diary
a dead moth
* * *
Snow splits hills
wind skitters up sleeves
New Year's ghosts
Anna Eve Zawierucha has been reading the Asahi Haikuist Network online for several years "as a lover of classical forms of Japanese art, but only recently started to compose my own haiku in English." To celebrate the incoming year she pens her first haiku in 3-5-3 syllables.
Fireworks
in starry eyes
New Year's Eve
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Readers are invited to send haiku about islands for the Jan. 21 issue of the Asahi Haikuist Network. Mail a postcard to David McMurray, International University of Kagoshima, Sakanoue 8-34-1, Kagoshima, 891-0197, e-mail (mcmurray@fka.att.ne.jp), or fax 099-263-0527. A few haiku are selected for printing in the Asahi Haikuist column in the International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun newspaper on the first and third Fridays of the month.
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