Saturday, October 28, 2023

The Take 5ive Journal, October 2023

Theme: Childhood


with one chiff
of the church organ
this sudden
girlhood fear of fire
and brimstone

my first kiss
beneath a bower
of honeysuckle,
steeped in the folklore
of everlasting love

screeching siblings
with their arms akimbo
defending
bunkbed territory
like sandhill cranes

unseaworthy,
the ship that carries
our memories . . .
I prefer your version
of childhood to mine

Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Halloween Special, October 2023

Halloween Special





Scarlet Dragonfly Journal, Issue 18, October 2023

 


Our Best Haiga: Black & White Haiga/Haisha, October 2023

 Curated by Lavana Kray


October 18, 2023


(note: this tanka received 1st Place in the 2022 British Haiku Society Awards)



Cattails, October 2023

rogue wave
a limpet holds on
tighter


mountaineering
owl-eyed tents light up
the night


little sisters
cover their smiles
with yellow fans
the ginkgo's leaves
were made for this


jackrabbits
frolicking in the snow
around your grave
there will be time enough
tomorrow for my tears




Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Issue 24, October 2023

blowhole
whale's
a
from
stench
the
crimes
war

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Ink Sweat and Tears - The Poetry and Prose Webzine - October 2023

Word and Image Feature for National Poetry Day: Refuge


(note: this haiga previously appeared in Scryptic 2.2, August 2018)

 

Fresh Out: An Arts and Poetry Collective, October 2023

 Curated by Eric A. Lohman


Featured Artist: October 8, 2023


(note: this haiku first appeared in Blithe Spirit 32.4, 2022)

Featured Artist: October 29, 2023


(note: this haiku first appeared in Kontinuum 2.1, 2022)



Fireflies' Light: A Magazine of Short Poems, Issue 28, October 2023


Note: this haiku first appeared in Kingfisher 6, October 2022


Note: this haiku first appeared in Time Haiku 58, August 2023


 

Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Drifting Sands: A Journal of 21st Century English-Language Haibun and Tanka Prose, Issue 23, September 2023

This issue includes the results of the Wearable Art and Haiku Contest, and I'm thrilled to announce that the following haiku was selected as a winner. It will be paired with this lovely art by Chrissi Villa, and will be available for purchase on various items as a fundraising effort for the Drifting Sands community:



Talking About Strawberries All of the Time, Issue 11, October 2023

Delighted to have the following three paper collages from the series "Pen to Paper" included in this issue:

scrawl the naked poetry


words becoming sand


yet the language




Petrichor, Number 23, Pebbles Volume 3 Autumn, October 2023

Honoured to have the following vispo selected for the cover of the Pebbles section of this issue! "The Shreds of a Life" represents the chronic illness/invisible disability challenges and limitations facing this poet:



Haiga in Focus, Issue 64, October 2023

 Curated by Claudia Brefeld


Translated into German




Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu, Vol. 8, Issue 94, October 2023

My thanks to editor Bryan Rickert for selecting the following haiga:




Enchanted Garden Haiku Journal, Issue 4: Sparkles, October 2023

Translated into Romanian


Modern Haiku, Vol. 54.3, Autumn 2023

tongue
my
of
tundra
the
from
erupting
pingos


Grateful to have the following haiku mentioned as a favourite in the editor's review of World Haiku 2023:

pressed flowers
the meadow I will give you
this winter

Akitsu Quarterly, Summer 2021

Chrysanthemum, Number 31, October 2023

Translated into German








haikuNetra, Issue 1.2, October 2023

haikuJyoti - The Third Eye

sea stacks
giants once lived
here


haikuDrishti - The Observation

traffic jam
a penguin trundles
its chick elsewhere


haikuRatna - Editor's Pick

you vanish
into the mist . . .
mossy rail ties




Frogpond, Vol. 46, Number 3, Autumn 2023

peat fire
the scent markings
of other worlds