an open field

Thursday

again this year
the wind-sown poppies
flower between stones

The Haiku Calendar 2010 (Snapshot Press, 2009)

11 comments:

Sam!!30 October 2009 at 10:33
Yeah.. n that's nature..

Lovely!

Take care
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RBroeker4 November 2009 at 21:57
Is it surprise? Is it sureness? What I do know is ... the sound of the wind which sows. Nice one!

Best wishes
Ralf
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Lynne Rees14 November 2009 at 09:57
Thank you both! Yes, surprise, delight, gratitude. It's good to spontaneously feel like that now and again. Sometimes I forget to look and notice.
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jem9 December 2009 at 10:48
Beautiful. A great sense of resilience. Hope but never taken for granted. And the first line really emphasises the whole.
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Lynne Rees9 December 2009 at 17:33
Thanks Jem. It's always a delight to be included in a Snapshot Press publication.
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Chaotic Beauty5 January 2010 at 15:32
So beautiful!
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Frank Williams6 January 2010 at 15:03
A beautiully observed moment...
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Lynne Rees6 January 2010 at 15:20
Thank you for your lovely feedback.
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Editor22 February 2010 at 13:55
lovely poem

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Blessings - Raquel
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Alan Summers17 April 2010 at 21:22
Good one! I love the Haiku Calendar!

all my best,

Alan
Literature Director, 2010 Bath Japanese Festival
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Alan Summers29 August 2010 at 00:57
Looking forward to more haiku and haibun postings! ;-)

all my best,

Alan
The With Words International Online Haiku Competition 2010: weblink to competition page
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About me

I am the author of a novel, The Oven House, a collection of poetry, Learning How to Fall, Messages, a volume of short, collaborative prose, a psycho-geography of my hometown in South Wales, UK, Real Port Talbot (Seren Books), and The Hungry Writer, Stories, Recipes & Writing Prompts, based on my blog of the same name.

I started working with haiku forms - haiku, senryu, tanka, rengay and haibun - in 2006, acted as the haibun editor at Simply Haiku during 2008 and 2009, and was co-editor, with Jo Pacsoo, of the British Haiku Society's Haibun Anthology, The Unseen Wind (2010). In 2011 I was joint editor, with Nigel Jenkins and Ken Jones, of another country, haiku poetry from Wales (Gomer Press) and one of the adjudicators for the haibun section of the inaugural British Haiku Award.

During 2014 and 2015 I was submissions and commissioning editor, along with Bob Lucky, at CHO: Contemporary Haibun Online and my haibun collection, forgiving the rain, is available from Snapshot Press, Britain's leading independent publisher of haiku writing.