f/k/a . . .

Today, in Kumamoto, Japan, lawyer and haiku poet Roberta Beary

will receive the Kusamakura Taisyo (Grand Prize) in the Foreign Language

Category of the 10th International Kusamakura Haiku Competition.  The

contest: “strives to celebrate the novelist and haiku poet Soseki, as well

as to bring awareness of ‘Kumamoto city charm and Haiku to the inter-

national level and further develop Kumamoto’s haiku culture.”

 

Here is the winning haiku:

 

  thunder
  the roses shift
  into shadow

 

 

 

Roberta sets many moods with her haiku.  The newest edition

of The Heron’s Nest  (VII: 4, Dec. 2005) has this offering:

 

 

third blizzard
the untuned piano
middle C

 

The senryu page of the most-recent edition of Simply Haiku (Winter 2005) 

also contains a few examples of Roberta’s always-anticipated marital poetry:

 

 

wedding rehearsal
she models her new
cup size

 

 

 

 

 

 

ceremony over
the bride unveils
her tattoo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

wedding night
she surrenders
her green card

 

 

 

Whether Roberta Beary is evoking a sigh, a hush or a smile,   

we’re much honored to have her work gracing this website.