HAIKU PIX REVIEW
In the SUMMER issue, among others:
HAIKU
last school day
honeysuckle vine
climbs the fence
-- Lori Romero
newborn's fists
opening and closing --
California poppies
-- Jim Bainbridge
dangling grape vines
a spider's
fragrant romp
-- Bill Cooper
July heat
my daughter feeds the cow
red tomatoes
-- Glenn Coats
hot summer
the watermelon supplier
rubbing his hands
-- Urszula Wielanowska
guardian persimmons
sparrow stretches its neck
for a sip
-- Marshall Hryciuk
zazen...
the air conditioner
hums
-- Chen-ou Liu
temple bell
before and after
cicadas
-- Mark E. Brager
white herons
dive into fuchsia haze -
lakeshore dawn
-- Craig W. Steele
sand dollar
petrified eons ago
desert rock shop
-- Miriam Sagan
out of the mud
of another æon
something hard
-- Jim Kacian
midnight –
the frog jumping in the pond
crushes the moon
-- Patricia Lidia
dark
deepening
silence
-- Brett Brady
in love
the stars
chirping
-- Dietmar Tauchner
end of summer
her lips
so cool
-- Ernest Wit
over stones
the ripple of water...
birdsong
-- G. R. Le Blanc
sugar cubes
for the horse
a mackerel sky
-- TempleCone
TANKA
never pregnant
i cut into a ripe
pomegranate
red seeds flowing
down the barren sink
-- Pamela A. Babusci
visiting my dad
at his grave
it's deep enough
the hole I dug
to plant the rose
-- Wahyu W. Basjir
In the #2 issue, among others ...
HAIKU
a black butterfly
tarnishes the pink rosebud
silent skies
-- Chen-ou Liu
high bright winds
in the hedge`s green shadow
primroses
-- Marshall Hryciuk
freezing spring
the stork's beak
so red
-- Artur Lewandowski
sugar candies
hanging on sacred branches
spring flavor
-- Hidenori Hiruta
weekend away …
an old milk jug
full of flowers
-- Jennifer Gomoll Popolis
a blue butterfly
in the depth of spring
crazy after flight
-- Adina Enachescu
after spring rain
empty playground full
of the blue
-- Jacek Margolak
the light breeze every square inch of sail
-- Jim Kacian
slick with rain
like the other rocks
inukshuk
-- Bruce Ross
all night long
a single drop of rain
from leaf to leaf
-- Kirby Record
spring wind
flitting across the river
moon ripples
-- Ramona Linke
park puddles
the tree tops hang
upside down
-- John McManus
through the window
into my bedroom
spring wind
-- Magadalena Banaszkiewicz
first date
no fortune cookies
with the bill
-- Elliot Nicely
an old man
in a pink shirt smiles
waiting for his love
-- Giorgio Gazzolo
sunrise-
slum dwellers` clothes dry
on the roadside deities.
-- A. Thiagarajan
HAIGA
-- Karen O`Leary
-- Bruce Ross

Photo© 2011 Elaine Whitman Haiga of Neal Whitman
TANKA
night in the open
consumed with cricket song
we know out of millions
there's a star for us
each and everyone
-- Wahyu A. Basjir
standing alone
under our Chinese pine
I remember you …
its trunk forks out
and roots into the ground
-- Chen-ou Liu
invite
and entertain
a little
silence
sometimes
-- Ed Coletti
In the #1 issue, among others ...
HAIKU
snail crossing
even the big ones
taking their time
-- Bruce Ross
Red lanterns
in snowy street
sake bar
-- Hidenori Hiruta
his eyes glide from her face down spring warmth
-- Jim Kacian
runaway petal...
the toddler
ups her game
-- Helen Buckingham
foghorn
a drowsy gull's
faint reply
-- Bill Cooper
Solitude-
among so many dry leaves
one still green
-- Vasile Moldovan
grey morning
the sleeping bag in the park
begins to move
-- Bill Hart
brand new decor
footprints in the doorway
smaller than mine
-- Wahyu W. Basjir
five dollar straw hats
on sale for only one buck
end of garden show
-- Neal Whitman
cellar window
trapped in the cobweb
my neighbor's house
-- Jacek Margolak
he lies
in a gold-plated casket …
just my size
-- Chen-ou Liu
Haiku Pix Review #1 - Winter 2011 and #2 - Spring 2011 are available here.
