f/k/a . . .

Well, we didn’t make it to Stonehenge’s summer solstice festival, and

weren’t even up for the sunrise today.  But, the f/k/a gang always knows

how to celebrate the seasons: with an extra helping of haiku, of course.

 

In addition to today’s featured poet, Canadian haijin DeVar Dahl, we’ve

invited Rebecca Lilly, Yu Chang and Kobayashi Issa to our solstice party,

with dagosan providing the snacks.

 

 

sultry day

a swallow runs its beak

across the pond

 

 

 

 

 

 

long summer day

a hawk holds its place

between the clouds

 

 

 

 

 

this heat
words written in the dust
on the shed window

 

DeVar Dahl

“long summer day” - New Resonance 3: Emerging Voices; Presence 15 

“sultry day” - A Piece of Egg Shell (Magpie Haiku Press, 2004); WHC WorldHaikuRev. I:3

“this heat“ - WHC Shiki Haiku Poems Contest

 

 

 

the sky colors
of dawn have changed
to summer clothes

 

 

 

 

 

 

stitching together
the short summer nights…
singing frogs

 

 

ISSA, translated by David G. Lanoue 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A clear hot day

the silence

behind the butterfly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon warmth–

a soft breeze curling

falled peony petals

 

 

 

Rebecca Lilly, from Shadwell Hills 

(Birch Prees Press, 2002)

 

 

 

bumblebee

deeper in the petunia

summer heat

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

stepping out

with my holey socks

summer stars

 

 

 Yu Chang, from  A New Resonance (1999)

“bumblebee” - Acorn I

 

 

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  by dagosan                                              

summer solstice:

there’s no

shady side of the street

 

 

trying to write

one new haiku –

a giant wasp circles my head

 

  June 21, 2005]