{"id":7095,"date":"2006-06-28T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/06\/28\/a-summer-trip-to-the-simply-haiku-"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:55","slug":"a-summer-trip-to-the-simply-haiku-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/06\/28\/a-summer-trip-to-the-simply-haiku-website\/","title":{"rendered":"a summer trip to the Simply Haiku website"},"content":{"rendered":"

During our punditry hiatus<\/a>, we thought we’d take a day trip to explore the Simply Haiku Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, whose editors have posted a carnival of Japanese Short Form Poetry for their Summer 2006<\/a> edition (vol. 4 no. 2) — haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, renku, haiga and more, plus related essays and commentary. There are dozens of contributors to Simply Haiku<\/em>‘s Summer 2006 edition, but it should be no surprise that some of the best work is by a handful of f\/k\/a<\/em>‘s Honored Guest Poets<\/a>.
\nhaiku<\/strong> from Ed Markowski<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

raising the height
\nof her bicycle seat…
\nspring rain<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

(for issabella<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

the last word
\nof a short letter…
\nwinter twilight<\/p>\n

below zero…
\nsparrows peck
\nthe snowman’s nose<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

harvest moon
\nwe move the scarecrow
\nto the front porch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

one to nothing
\na full moon shines above
\nthe centerfield scoreboard<\/p>\n

……………………………………. by ed markowski<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Senryu – <\/strong>on Things<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

old water fountain
\nhitting me in the eye
\nagain<\/p>\n

suspecting
\nit’s dogshit\u2026
\nit’s dogshit<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Barry George<\/a> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

after
\nhis first haircut
\na cowlick<\/p>\n

– Randy Brooks<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

tunnel of love
\nshe props the stuffed frog
\nbetween us<\/p>\n

– Ed Markowski<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

cool forest lake
\nas I slip off my shorts the snort
\nof a bull moose<\/p>\n

—— George Swede<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

in the shower
\nan economy-size bar of soap
\nlands on my toe<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— Tom Clausen<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A Haibun by Roberta Beary<\/strong><\/a>
\n <\/strong><\/p>\n

aft
\ner work<\/strong><\/p>\n

the weight of memory at times like this with its hard push of his hand on my bike columbia blue he bought me and me riding solo look at me daddy look at me and he gives me one big wave and then the soft thud in the drive and he’s gone and i have nowhere to look but up at the stars forever changing and the same<\/p>\n

vigil over
\nbinding his
\nhands
\nwith a rosary<\/p>\n

always his hand over mine his hard and strong mine little and soft the crush of his hand while we wait for the light to turn green and the cars coming every which way quick he pulls me back safe the hurt of his hand over mine under the streetlamp’s soft glow forever changing and the same<\/p>\n

vigil
\na
\nrosary slips over
\ncooling hands<\/p>\n

– roberta beary<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a><\/em>
\nA Haibun by Andrew Riutta<\/strong>
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

THE WAITRESS
\n<\/strong> – Andrew Riutta
\nIn two days she turns just twenty-one. Twenty-one. So young. So pale. I tell her she should stay away from the bars. I tell her she should go out west and save the whales, or a redwood-or the endangered laughter of working-class people who go out on porches at dusk to hum the same hymns over and over in their heads that their grand- parents did. She tells me that saving herself from her father is hard enough.<\/p>\n

peaceful autumn-
\na window display
\nof hunter’s orange<\/p>\n

– andrew riutta<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

??<\/em><\/strong> How will you celebrate the Fourth of July? See our posting from a year ago: Independence, fireworks and dissent (July 4, 2005)<\/font><\/a> .<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During our punditry hiatus, we thought we’d take a day trip to explore the Simply Haiku Journal, whose editors have posted a carnival of Japanese Short Form Poetry for their Summer 2006 edition (vol. 4 no. 2) — haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, renku, haiga and more, plus related essays and commentary. There are dozens of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3298,555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiga-or-haibun","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1Qr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12642,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions\/12642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}