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