Today it is exciting to receive this equisite Haiku Anthology, under the same moon and so proud to have three of my hailu included with many well known haikuists.
‘Alive with birds and frogs, suffused with the threat of bushfires and floods, these haiku sing with the uniqueness of Australian life. The skill on show is breathtaking , as distinctive individul voices lay bare moments of joy, loss, awareness and connection to inner and outer landscapes. ” Esther Ottaway
Colleen Keating I am excited to have three of my awarded haiku over the past few years published .
on my doorstep
a single rose softens
lockdown
birds and frogs
harmonise at dawn
Kakadu billabong
spring backburn
smells of last summer
waft on the wind
In the blurb on the back cover the well known poet Kevin Brophy writes: “And just as the butterfly puts so much effort into being light, you’ll wonder, does the haiku compress or expand the world ?. Does it vanish into its possible meanings or is each haiku, like autumn leaves, competing to be the most strangely beauitful object on the forest floor? “An amazing analogy, And amazing how 17 syllables or in the Japanese way 17 beats of sound can tell us a cosmic story from the minute nano size story to the universe expanding vision.
An example of this is from Dr Andrew Hede . His haiku expresses the grandness of the moment of experience ‘virgin forest’ to the humble minuteness by the age read in the time line of growth.
It speaks of the loss of our virgin forests which are disappearing and the reality of the time to grow and the moment of cutting down it with the fresh-cut stump,
virgin rainforest
ninety-four rings
on a fresh-cut stump
Andrew Hede Page 44.
Below is the back cover with the blurb I qouted from and my page of haiku.
Thank you to the editors for the new Anthology for its beautiful sensitive presentation and choice of haiku.
