Issue 48 Childhood memories

Childhood Memories

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Michele’s Musings

Happy belated World Poetry Day, everyone! The theme for 2025 is Poetry for Peace and Unity. I love the idea of this day. Here is the wiki explanation.

“World Poetry Day is celebrated on 21 March, and was declared by UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1999, “with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”.[1] Its purpose is to promote the reading, writing, publishing, and teaching of poetry throughout the world and, as the original UNESCO declaration says, to “give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional, and international poetry movements”.” Wikipedia

Any day that encourages poetry is a good day! In my world, poetry is what makes joy shareable and sorrow bearable. It makes me understand I’m not alone, opens up new ways to look at old problems, and shows me the glimmers in this world through other people’s eyes when maybe I can’t see them myself.

Your haiku do this for me as well. I feel like I am getting to know each one of you a little bit more every time you submit your work to the Solitary Daisy!

Speaking of submitting, we are at the one week remaining point in our second annual Solitary Daisy Haiku Contest! Over one hundred of you have already submitted! You have until midnight PST on March 28^th to get your haiku in. Please use the form on our website to submit.

This week’s childhood haiku have brought back so many memories. Thank you for trusting us with this precious work.

Sally’s Notebook

First, I’d like to send our sincere apologies to Rebecca Upjohn, whose lovely haiku was printed with the lines in the wrong order. As soon as we realized our mistake, we corrected it on the website, but I’d like to reprint it here for those of you who don’t regularly check the website.

beaver tracks
lead to an ice hole-
the missing puck

Rebecca Upjohn, Ontario and New Hampshire
@rebeccaupjohn.bsky.social
 
Again, Rebecca, our apologies!
 
Remember the prompt calendar Michele and Frithjof created for Haiku-A-Day? Well, it’s time. For those of you who completed the calendar, we invite you to choose your fifteen favorite haiku and send them to me in an email with Calendar in the subject line. Of those submissions, Michele and I will choose our top three poets and select 10 of the 15 haiku to be printed in our 50^th newsletter. We can’t wait to read your submissions!

Member News

Okay, I admit it. I started making a list of everyone whose name I recognized who made the long list in the last two editions of Haiku Dialogue on Troutswirl. But there were so many of you, I finally gave up. Congratulations to all the poets whose haiku were featured. You are indeed a talented bunch!
 
Jimmy Pappas, of Chichester, NH will have haiku appearing in the next issue of First Frost. Way to go, Jimmy!
 
Found on Cityscapes, the following selection:

Haiku by Chen-ou Liu

city park at dawn
I jog from one tai chi master
to another

the room
full of selfie sticks
wax museum

Grand Canyon sunrise …
learning to love
here and now

Also from Cityscapes:

Haiku by Marjolein Rotsteeg, the Netherlands

downtown sakura
at the gift shop
plastic cherry trees

In the Haiku Poets Word Search, we were thrilled to discover Cendrine Marrouat used one of the haiku published first here on The Solitary Daisy! Here are her three haiku.

after dinner
the cool wind wanders
on their tongues.
The Solitary Daisy - Issue 45 
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a damaged cover
challenges oblivion;
mom’s voice fills the room.
Spillwords - August 12, 2019
~
a quiet river
the reflection of the moon
long gone.
Published on my blog - November 13, 2023

Here is a link to a notice from Pure Haiku, regarding Monica Kakkar’s upcoming online publication. Something to watch out for!

Places To Submit

The Solitary Daisy 2^nd Annual Haiku Contest ends this coming Friday, March 28^th, at midnight PST! Sending us one or two haiku on any theme using this submission form.

Students, it’s time to enter the 36^th Annual Nicholas Virgilio Haiku and Senryu Competition for Grades 7 – 12! Submissions close on March 31^st.

Folk Ku submissions for the May/June 2025 Issue are due by April 15^th. The theme for Issue 5 is water – they are particularly interested in the healing power of water & connections to water – fishing, beachcombing, water sports, recreation & water therapies, waterfalls, birds, et cetera.

Drifting Sands Haibun and Tanka Prose is accepting submissions for Issue 32 from April 1^st to 15^th. Guest Editor is  Anju Kishore and publication is June 15^th.

Hexapod Haiku Challenge! is open!  Along with regular hexapod haiku there is a special topic award this year for the best haiku featuring ground-dwelling arthropods. Have fun with that! March 15^th through June 15^th.

The editor of the 2025 ONE ART Haiku Anthology encourages you to check out ONE ART’s 2024 Haiku Anthology to see what kind of haiku they like.   Open for submissions from March 1^st until March 31^st.

If you happen to live in the Newbury area of Massachusetts, check out the Pollinator PowerWorks  Haiku Contest by April 10^th for a chance to have your haiku displayed in the new pollinator garden.

For this of you living within the Vancouver Island Regional Library area, you can take part in the Tahsis Library Spring Haiku Contest. Deadline to submit is April 17^th.

Black and White Haiga/Haisha accepts year-round submissions of haiga and haisha.

When you have a little time, take a meander through the Haiku Poet Interviews website! Here is a link to a recent interview with Gary Hotham, a well-respected American haikuist.

Remember the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival is on now with events all over Vancouver! The associated Haiku Invitational has also begun, with submissions closing on June 1^st.  Haiku for this contest must be on the subject of cherry blossoms.

This Week’s Prompt

For the next issue, write us a haiku or two about a natural geographic feature. For example, a mountain or a river. Be creative!
Please see our submission guidelines on the website!

“Haiku is a way of culling things from the stream of things that rush past the senses.”

-Michael J. Rosen

Michele Rule

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.

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Sally Quon( Writer / Poet )

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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