Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day eleven

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


motorway shoulder
the bright blue
of a pukeko


Published in Bay of Plenty Times (Saturday, March 8, 2008)

Four and Twenty Calling for Poetry Submissions

Four and Twenty, an online short form poetry journal edited by Vinnie Kinsella, is calling for submissions for its annual double issue out in April for National Poetry Month.

See the full submission guidelines including the online submission form, information on rights and permissions and the submission calendar.

They are also looking for cover art for multiple upcoming issues, check out the guidelines here. The January issue of Four and Twenty featured my image on the cover, you can see it here.

I haven't yet submitted any poetry to Four and Twenty so will look at making that one of my submissions for this month.

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day ten

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


walking to therapy -
her step slows
past the rose bush


Published in a fine line (September, 2009)

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day nine

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


teaching haiku -
all the children
raise their hands


Published in Valley Micropress Vol.12 Iss.5 (June/July, 2009)

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day eight

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


wind pushes
through dry fields
the caravan sways


Published in Kokako 7 (September, 2007)

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day seven

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


power outage
he show me
Orion's belt


Published in across the fingerboards (New Zealand Poetry Society Anthology, 2010)

Takahe Magazine Photo Bank

Takahe magazine is extending its Arts element by introducing a small number of photographs, when space allows, and are setting up a photo-bank to this end.

They invite photographers to submit black and white photographs (300dpi). Please submit jpg files and include contact details. For submission guidelines go here.

Published images will be appropriately attributed.  Copyright will remain with the photographer following publication. Takahe are unable to make payment for photographs at this stage.

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day six

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


under the chrysanthemum pot     different lengths of w o r m


Published in seed packets: an anthology of flower haiku (bottle rockets press, 2010)

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day five

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


holding my breath
the butterfly lands
on her finger


Published in the taste of nashi New Zealand Haiku (Windrift, 2008)

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day four

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


a thrush perched
halfway up
the tree's shadow


Published in Bravado 19 (July, 2010)

January Round-Up - What a Month!

A warm welcome to my new readers and all those that have popped in over the course of January - international small stones writing month. I greatly appreciate your comments, and ticking of the 'like' and 'cool' boxes at the bottom of my posts :)

I've loved writing a small stone a day and adding it to the river, and have benefited greatly both mentally and spiritually from doing so. At the same time, I wrote up my small stones in my Mslexia Writer's Diary: a diary I bought for the first time this year and am so glad I did; highly recommend!

I've also enjoyed stopping into other stoners' blogs who I may not have found if it wasn't for this challenge, and I thank you all for sharing your stones. I look forward to submitting my ten best stones this month, and eventually reading many others' in the book to be put together by Fiona Robyn.

January saw me make a goal of submitting poetry to a publication or competition every week for 2011. Here's how I'm doing:

• week one - submitted six tanka to Eucalpyt (first time submitting here) won't hear outcome until after March 31st submission deadline for Issue 10
• week two - submitted one senryu to Haiku News (second time submitting here) was accepted, you can read it here
• week three - submitted five haiku and three tanka to Kokako; had two haiku and one tanka accepted for Issue 14, April 2011
• week four - submitted to Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competition (first time submitting here) results will be announced March 31st

I also created a 'My Photography' page here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku, and submitted images to (all for the first time):

• Four and Twenty (online short form poetry journal) - my image was chosen as the cover art for the January issue
• The Bay News 'Weather Photo' Page
• The Bay News 'Holiday Photo Competition' - closes Feb 4th
• And I'm very excited to have been asked to provide cover art for the next issue of Kokako (Issue 15, September 2011) Many thanks, Pat :)

I've continued making collage-style haiga for my collection: four this month, to make a total of twenty-three. I have written two new tanka so far this year for the collection, and still have several haiku and tanka already written to turn into haiga.

I had the opportunity to show them to my local fellow haiku writers at a small gathering in Tauranga on the 29th, which resulted in some good feedback. I'll carry on with this project while it still has meaning for me and the creative process brings me great joy.

January is extra special too because I made it to my first 100 blog posts! Thanks again to all those who have come along for the ride :)

So as you can see, there has been lots of great things happening for me, alongside my continuing treatment for leukaemia. Roll on February!

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day three

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


shirtless
he weeds
between the gravestones


Published in moonset (2010 Final Issue - Edition 6 / Number 1)

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day two

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


emergency waiting room
folded magazine
for a pillow


Published in Magazine Six (November, 2008)

Sharing a Haiku for NaHaiWriMo - day one

I'm writing a haiku a day for NaHaiWriMo offline. Here at Swimming in Lines of Haiku I'm sharing one of my published haiku each day:


navigating
these country roads
the curl of her hair


Highly Commended, New Zealand Poetry Society International Haiku Competition 2008
Published in Before the Sirocco (New Zealand Poetry Society Anthology, 2008)

Hello February and NaHaiWriMo!

February is National Haiku Writing Month or NaHaiWriMo and has been set up by acclaimed haiku poet Michael Dylan Welch.

I will be writing a haiku a day in February "...the shortest month- for the world's shortest form of poetry" in my Mslexia Writer's Diary. I hope to come up with some stellars now that I've re-honed my observation skills with a river of stones.

Here on Swimming in Lines of Haiku I will post one of my print published haiku each day for your reading pleasure. I hope you will stop by to enjoy the fun, and maybe share a haiku of your own.

I'll still be posting any good competitions, publications, books, etc., that I come across - so stay tunned. And a wrap-up of January is coming soon!