OUT OF THE TREETOPS
special features of
TREETOPS
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QUIETUDE AND SURPRISE
For the 26th Annual Haiku Holiday Conference,
Sponsored by the North Carolina Haiku Society
Lenard D. Moore, US
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HAIKU
CONNECTIONS
- AN EXCERPT
from "Haiku Connections: An Introduction to Haiku," A HAIKU JOURNEY
(The Smithville Study Club; Liberty, Tennessee,
2004)
Ferris Gilli, US
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TREETOPS EDITORIAL TEAM:
EDITOR, WHR:
Ferris Gilli, US
PROOFREADERS:
John Daleidin, US
Karina Klesko, US
2005 SPECIAL FEATURES IMAGE:
'Monarch
Migration' photo by Gene Nieminen, US |
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EDITOR'S WELCOME
Dear haiku readers and
poets,
Welcome to "Treetops"! This column exists for two
purposes: (1) to present fine haiku by poets from around
the world, and (2) to be a source of inspiration for
haiku writers. If you have recently begun your haiku
journey, congratulations! As I'm sure you've realized by
now, there is no magic formula for writing excellent
haiku. However, aspiring haiku poets who do the
following things will probably find success:
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Read and carefully
study excellent haiku.
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Become acquainted with haiku history and tradition.
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Learn certain basic
guidelines and apply them to their work.
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Follow their own
paths, while being unafraid to make side trips.
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Be willing to
consider writing tips from established haiku poets.
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Write haiku, write
haiku, write haiku.
A good haiku begins with
these ingredients: concrete imagery, freshness, focus,
sense of season, and immediacy. Other key elements are
conciseness (clarity, brevity), balance of humanity and
nature, effective juxtaposition, caesura, sense of mood,
common language, natural syntax, and poet invisibility.
The poet's instinct for perceiving haiku when they happen and the right
combinations of components create memorable haiku. I hope you may find something
of value in "HAIKU CONNECTIONS," a brief introduction to contemporary
English-language haiku.
Yours in haiku spirit,
Ferris Gilli
Editor, TREETOPS
EDITOR'S CHOICE: A SELECTION
OF ONE TREETOPS HAIKU FOR COMMENTARY
(click
link to read Ferris Gilli's commentary) |
trout lilies...
a youth loops his shoes
over a bare branch
Robert Bauer,
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TREETOPS HAIKU
Selected by
Ferris Gilli, Editor |
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Page 2 |
Adelaide B. Shaw, Lenard D. Moore,
John Bird, C, Allen McGill,
Peggy Willis Lyles, Gillena Cox |
Jason Sanford Brown, DW Bender,
Lorin Ford, Jason Sanford Brown,
Peggy Willis Lyles, Francine Porad
Robert Bauer |
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Page 4 |
Loftin Cudney, Francis Masat,
Sue Stanford, Laryalee Fraser,
Francine Porad, H. Gene Murtha,
Robert Bauer |
Graham Nunn, Carol Raisfeld,
Michael Meyerhofer, Billie Wilson,
Nancy Stewart Smith, Maria Steyn,
Francine Porad, Karen Klein |
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Carmel (Lively) Westerman, William Scott Galasso, Sonia Christina Coman, Francis W. Alexander,
Maria Steyn, Kay F. Anderson, Michael Meyerhofer, Zhanna Rader, Peggy Willis Lyles, Victor P. Gendrano |
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