Echidna Tracks No 11 has just concluded
Echidna Tracks Issue 11 edited by Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert. Thank you to them for the time and passion for haiku and thanks especially to Lynette Arden for the joy Echnida Tracks gives us daily at 6.30 am as a new gift arrives in our inbox
roosting lorikeets
chatter into the night
moon glow
Colleen Keating
among clouds
spoonbills
sweep the shallows
Colleen Keating
sickle moon—
barefoot around
a crescent beach
Colleen Keating
an ocean
to the other side
refugees
Colleen Keating
Love this direction for The Elements
Whether you are drawn to the ancient categories of Earth, Air, Fire and Water or are more at home with chemistry and current ideas in physics and cosmology; our theme deals with nature in the raw, the fundamentals of existence. Stone, soil, sea, wind and sky come to mind, as do energy, light, matter, electricity, space and time. Perhaps your world is an enchanted one; animated by spirit and containing magical and miraculous elements. You might also be open to the idea that the universe is composed of mind stuff, the stuff of which dreams are made, or is it all a mystery beyond words (though as aspiring poets we shall try). There is scope here to explore our place as thinking, feeling and social beings immersed in immensities and carried along in the flux of it all; the possibilities are endless and go to the heart of haiku. Take us into the heart of your universe, share your visions and wonder – leave us adazzle, quietly reflective and moved in one way or another…
Editors for Echidna Tracks Issue 11: Elements will be Gavin Austin and Marilyn Humbert.