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Showing posts with label Angie Werren. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Angie Werren. Show all posts

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Decemeber Haiku Share: The Week That Was #3

Another week of Cara Holman's December Haiku Share has past and more participants have joined us in this unique challenge. Below are the links to the last seven days of posts, and the haiku, tanka and haiga I've shared along the way. Come over and take a look! (Here's the link to the latest prompt - garden spider)


spring tide . . .
a layer of dust
on the condom packet
– Kirsten Cliff
DailyHaiku, Cycle 12, December 16, 2011
Sea Bandits, September 2012 (Ed. Aubrie Cox)



the night he left . . . 
the many sounds
of summer rain
– Kirsten Cliff
DailyHaiku Cycle 12, November 2, 2011



leaf-fall
i finally have
my head shaved
– Kirsten Cliff
‘All the Words that Mean Cancer’ rengay sequence 
with Cara Holman, LYNX 27:3 (October 2012)



one side of the rose
has no petals:
hoping he’ll return,
I keep to my half
of the bed
– Kirsten Cliff
Kokako 13, September 2010



hailstorm . . .
three red petals left
to scent this rose
– Kirsten Cliff
Caribbean Kigo Kukai, September 2012



no mail today
a taste of woodsmoke
on the wind
– Kirsten Cliff
From ‘Between the Birdsong’ (with Cara Holman)
LYNX 27:3, October 2012



(click on image to enlarge)

Appeared on Angie Werren’s blog as part of her 
National Poetry Month ‘Couplets’ posts, April 2012.
 
 

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Feathered Poets

I'm very happy to be one of Angie Werren's 'feathered poets' this month as part of National Poetry Month and Couplets: a multi-author poetry blog tour. Yesterday one of my previously unpublished photo-haiga was hosted on Angie's blog, which you can find here. Angie is showcasing different poets everyday so pop on over to her blog and find someone you haven't heard from before. You never know where it may lead you! :)


Sunday, April 1, 2012

Happy April Fool's Day!

April 1st - when Daylight Saving ends in New Zealand and [Inter]National Poetry Month begins!

I'm far too exhausted in every possible way to do something daily on my blog this month. But I'm very excited to have been invited by three poet friends - Angie Werren, Margaret Dornaus and Cara Holman - to appear on their respective blogs with haiku, tanka, haibun, haiga and a few words about my poetic life. Tune in to Angie's feathers, Margaret's Haiku-doodle and Cara's Prose Posies this April to read lots of great poetry and be inspired!

Below is the April page of the calendar I made for my family. The haiku was first published in the taste of nashi - New Zealand Haiku (Windrift, 2008) and the photo was taken in the backyard of my old home in Papamoa last year. Remember it's autumn in New Zealand so monarch butterflies are in abundance right now! (Click on photo to see larger image.)


April 2012 - Kirsten's Calendar of Haiku & Photography

Speaking of New Zealand haiku - The Haiku Foundation's 'Per Diem: Daily Haiku' feature this month is being edited by award-winning Kiwi haijin Sandra Simpson and features haiku from Aotearoa (NZ). Check in to THF homepage daily to see a fresh poem on the lower right-hand side of your screen, including one of mine. Enjoy! :)