konoshita yami – shade of a tree
touching the moss
on the dark side of the tree
new moon ritual
– Isabella Mori
world
under a giant river fig –
sun on fire
– Anna Dean
wind in the aspen-
our song
on endless loop
– Sally Quon
driving through
the shade of poplar trees
glimpses of the harbour
– Michele Rule
asleep under fir
soft safe bed of needles
wake to lightning
– Jaki Sawyer
Member News
Since our last newsletter, Michele Rule has had one haiku published in Poetry Pea Haiku Flash and two haiku in Haiku Girl!
Sally Quon has had one haiku accepted by Haiku Canada Review. She also has a mini chap published by Origami Poems Project, titled “Grass Basket.” Click on and download the PDF, fold according to the instructions, and you will have a mini chapbook of Sally’s haiku. Submission guidelines can also be found here.
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An Interview with Josephine LoRe
In lieu of a lesson this week, Michele has provided the following link to a video. Haiku: The Poetry of Focus with Scott Mason
We look forward to her return for our next newsletter.
Upcoming Deadlines, Openings, and Readings
Opportunities to Submit
Opening on September 1
Whiptail Journal publishes one-line haiku.
Tsuri-doro opens Sept 1 and closes Sept. 10. Act fast!
Enchanted Garden opens Sept. 1 and closes Sept. 15. The theme is “yellow”
Member Contributions
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Solitary Daisy
This Week’s Prompt
Our prompt this week has been stolen directly from Naturalist Weekly If you have not had the chance to wander through this site, I highly recommend doing so.
Write a haiku or senryu that references flowers wilting or flowers going to seed.
We look forward to reading your work! Send your haiku/senryu to sally_quon@yahoo.com or kelownalady@hotmail.com.
“Forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!”
–Chaung Tzu
Michele Rule is a disabled writer from Kelowna BC. She is especially interested in the topics of chronic illness, relationships and nature. Michele is published in the Asahi Shimbun Haikuist, Pine Cone Review, the Enchanted Garden, Five Minute Lit, Shadow Pond, WordCityLit, and the anthologies F*ck the Patriarchy, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and To Live Here, among others. She is an associate member of the League of Canadian Poets and Haiku Canada. Michele has been awarded honourable mention twice for the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational and also for the Haiku Northwest Porad Award. Her first chapbook is Around the World in Fifteen Haiku. Michele lives in a beautiful garden surrounded by people who love her just the way she is.
Sally Quon is a disabled poet and photographer living in the Okanagan Valley of beautiful British Columbia, Canada. She is an associate member of The League of Canadian Poets and a member of Haiku Canada. Her work has been published in numerous journals including The Heron’s Nest, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, First Frost, and Time Haiku. She is currently working on her first book of haiku, haibun, and haiga, tentatively titled, “My Valley, My Home.”
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