Archive for Japanese Short Forms

1. (UNTITLED HAIBUN) • by Catherine Edmunds 21 Comments

    
   First comes vermillion – anger of loss. Next – cruelty of cadmium yellow. I knock back the winter with ultramarine, my punishment over. The weft of the canvas is burnt out; a spring may emerge, a weathered stone fall. Somewhere within this jumble of colour lies an intimate landscape; somewhere there’s a Prussian blue lake, [...]

   Japanese Short Forms, Other
   
   

2. WHITE CRYSTAL WINTER • by Rebecca Colby 8 Comments

    
   sugary snowflakes
   dissolve in hot cups of tea
   white crystal winter
    

   Rebecca Colby likes the idea of being a writer but doesn’t put pen to paper as often as she should. She travelled the world as a tour director before settling in England—a country where she knew the weather would force her inside to write. 
     

   Japanese Short Forms, Nature
   
   

3. (UNTITLED HAIKU) • by Greg Schwartz 8 Comments

   after the battle
   the ground littered with the bodies
   of plastic soldiers
    
    
    
    
    

   Greg Schwartz is a copier repairman, horror writer, and haiku poet.  Some of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cold Mountain Review, Modern Haiku, Talebones, and the 2008 Red Moon Anthology.  He is the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine.

   Japanese Short Forms, Other
   
   

4. TANKA WRITTEN WHILE WEARY • by John Lander 8 Comments

   Yellow dawn stains white
   Sheets wrinkled by moonlit tides;
   Opened windows draw
   Scents of salted and dried death
   As roses to potpourri.
   John Lander reads and writes out of sunny Southern California where he has become something of a balcony aficionado.

   Japanese Short Forms, Nature, Other
   
   

5. PASSAGE • by Jac Cattaneo 16 Comments

   Swallows punctuate
   grey sky — black parentheses
   bracketing the wind.
   Jac Cattaneo writes poetry and short fiction and is currently working on a novel. She teaches Cultural Studies to Fine Art degree students.

   Japanese Short Forms, Literary, Nature
   
   

6. MOONFIRE • by Nick Bowman 14 Comments

   Glorious moonfire.
   Roof slates alight with blue
   silver, true silver
   This is a new venture for Nick Bowman who has never been published. He always felt a desire to write but only now has found some time to give it a go.

   Japanese Short Forms, Nature
   
   

7. (UNTITLED SPECULATIVE HAIKU) • by Greg Schwartz 8 Comments

   green pasture
   zombie cows graze
   on the farmer
   Greg Schwartz is the staff cartoonist for SP Quill Magazine and a member of the Haiku Society of America. Some of his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Frogpond, Modern Haiku, New York Quarterly, and the 2008 Red Moon Anthology. Spec House of Poetry has just released a broadside [...]

   Japanese Short Forms, Poems, Speculative
   
   

8. HAIKU ON CATS • by Heather Kuehl 14 Comments

   Purring, playful cat
   Rolling in the autumn leaves
   With her limp, dead rat.
   Heather Kuehl is a writer of fantasy, horror, and the occasional science fiction. She has been featured in Ruins Metropolis (Hadley Rille Books), Strange Worlds of Lunacy (Cyberwizard Productions), and The Drabbler 10 & 11 (Sam’s Dot Publishing). Heather’s poems have been seen in Aphelion. More [...]

   Japanese Short Forms, Poems
   
   

9. WINTER’S GHOST • by Steve Goble 13 Comments

   Winter’s ghost clings fast,
   until sun deeply kisses
   the night-frosted grass
   Steve Goble writes horror, fantasy and science fiction, plus some poetry. He lives in Ohio.

   Japanese Short Forms, Literary, Nature, Poems