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Haiku
Cycles, a Haiku e-Book of Regional Kigo
Denis Garrison, Editor
HAIKU CYCLES
is an e-book project of the World Haiku Club in partnership with the Haiku
Harvest webzine at http://www.denisgarrison.com.
A complete "haiku cycle" contains twelve haiku from a participating
poet, with one for each month and with locally relevant kigo (season-words) for
a single geographic region (e.g., a poet from London writing a cycle would use
kigo specific to London). With WHC members all over the world, this collection
of haiku cycles is proving useful in dealing with the vexing question of the use
of kigo in the face of the internationalisation of haiku. This exercise is
intended to further the World Haiku Club's agenda for reformation of haiku
technique in the context of the development of haiku in western languages.
Haiku Cycles
is an annual e-book. The 2001 volume, with 19 poets participating, is nearly
complete. The 2001 volume's deadline is May 1, 2002. The 2002 volume recently
opened and already has 10 poets participating, with several others expected to
join in. In this new volume, each month has a theme. Poets' haiku for each month
must relate to the monthly themes: January - Sky; February - Death; March -
Flight; April - Flowers; May - Land; June - New Life; July - Animals; August -
Time; September - Water; October - Loss; November - Aquatic Life; December -
Family. The use of themes is meant to allow greater comparability among the
regional kigo.
If you want to be part of these historic
international kigo collections and are willing to commit to writing and
submitting the full cycle of twelve haiku, please write to Haiku Cycles at HaikuHarvest@yahoo.com
and register with the Editor, Denis Garrison. Haiku are accepted in both
traditional forms (e.g., 5-7-5 and shorter three-line formats) and in more
innovative forms (e.g., crystallines, zips, one-line formats).
To give you a taste of haiku cycles, here are a
couple representative haiku from the poets participating in Haiku
Cycles 2001. Each poet and every month is represented by this
selection.
| an'ya
- Oregon, Pacific Northwest, US: |
sloshing through mud
to admire skunk cabbage
before its aroma
- March
maypole day -
weeping willow leaves furl
about their limb
- May
| Debra
Woolard Bender - Central Florida, Southeastern, US: |
bedroom window
I wake to hear elephant ears
catch the rain
- October
Christmas time
trumpet vines top
southern pine
- December
| John
Bird - East Coast of Australia: |
first frost ~
the straw-necked ibis
spears a tussock
- June
twilight moon ~
a stream of fruit bats
out of the scrub
- October
| Rosa
Clement - Manaus, Amazonas, Northern Brazil: |
winter rains
the city creek now
crosses the road
- January
the rain is gone
no more crickets to look for
inside the boots
- June
| Dr.
Angelee Deodhar - Chandigarh, Punjab, India: |
water hyacinth --
in the village pond
a herd of buffalo
- July
a heron
in the wild rice field
another monsoon
- September
| Jasminka
Diordievic - Yugoslavia: |
a patch of fog -
by the fig-tree stump
lily of the valley
- April
along the railroad
poppies waving to trains
horses grazing ...
- June
| Denis
Garrison - Piedmont Plateau, East Coast, US: |
ring-necked pheasant
flees in sinuous flight --
dry field of pumpkins
- September
pine harvest fragrant
on the cutting cold breeze --
children pick holly
- December
| Victor
P. Gendrano - Southern California, Southwest Coast, US: |
cloudy morning
mounds of mushrooms appear
in the rain-soaked lawn
- February
passing through
painted lady butterflies
from south of border
- May
| Kirsty
Karkow - Maine, New England Coast, US: |
red maples --
people from away
view the foliage
- October
snow shoes --
scent of woodsmoke
and balsam
- December
| Joan
Payne Kincaid - Long Island, NY, East Coast, US: |
Sea Cliff harbor --
spring fog floats
a silk screen
- April
I don't want to leave
cold peach sky
at dinner time
- November
| Benjamin
Miners - Oxfordshire, Central England, UK: |
a bare field -
three crows treading
between flints.
- April
| Linda
Robeck - Northern Massachusetts, New England Coast, US: |
freshly turned earth
a honeybee hovers
where clover bloomed
- July
news bulletin
the hush
when sleet turns to snow
- November
| Dr.
Bruce Ross - Rockies, Central Alberta, Western Canada: |
spring whitecaps . . .
one whistler swan cradles
the other's neck
- May
autumn river wind . . .
some goldeneye ducks sleeping on
the sunlit rocks
- September
| Donald
Socha - Great Lakes, US: |
black thunder clouds
yellow willow branches
in a stiff wind
- April
| Maria
Steyn - Gauteng, South Africa: |
hazy morning
the old peach tree
breaks into blossom
- August
fragrant night
the yellow moon
above a thorn tree
- October
| Susumu
Takiguchi (Ryuseki) - Oxford, England, UK: |
nimbus clouds floating --
summer field where the nunnery
once stood
- August
overnight --
little spiders with silky web
covered the autumn field
- October
| Florence
Vilen - The Baltic Coast, Sweden: |
All the shades
of plum, bird-cherry, pear, sloe:
white-blossom May
- May
Crayfish party,
above songs and bright lanterns
the stars returning
- August
| Alison
Williams - South Coast of England, UK: |
a winter walk
the frozen footpath
ridged over roots
- January
almost spring
a goldcrest restlessly
explores bare twigs
- March
| Billie
Wilson - Southeast Alaska, Pacific Northwest, US: |
the glacier today
is Steller's jay blue --
ancient ice receding
- February
stepping outside
to look for Northern Lights --
first snow
- November
Webzines include:
Haiku Harvest (haiku)
Ku Nouveau
(archived)
Haiku Noir
(archived)
Amaze (cinquain)
Templar Phoenix (traditional English poetry)
Ebooks include:
Haiku Cycles
2001 (haiku - still
open)
2002 (haiku - new)
Saijiki X (ongoing
experimental saijiki)
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