Haiku Harvest - ISSN: 1557-7619 (Digital)- Volume 1, Number 1 - Spring 2000

Editor: Denis Michel Garrison

The Vol. 1, No. 1 Spring 2000 Issue [ISSN: 1558-9862 (Print)] is archived in the California State Library's American Haiku Archive.

HAIKU

Elizabeth St Jacques
new year 2000; cold moon; bitter night; bright sunlight

Ferris Gilli
new spider web--; sunset...; winter sun; my diet begins--; bathroom garden--;
wind rustling; flooded creek--; first morning; winter pond; first sun

Maria Steyn
drought's end; sudden cold; midnight moon; between earth and sky; bushveldt afternoon;
noonday; quiet pasture; evening breeze

Joy Hewitt Mann
from the river bank; with flower water; old cemetery; a bowl of colors; a cicada calls;
two blue herons fly

Denis Garrison
setting in hedgerow; bravely in the breeze; black flocks of grackles; wet warm breeze;
swinging from wing tips; in low scudding clouds; last night a deep snow;
remembering; at this ancient well

SENRYU

Issara Jones
becoming clear; Spilt coffee!; with tiny kisses; prison yard --

Denis Garrison
gone two years; first kanji drawn; peach petal on snow; dew dampened boots;
garbagemen have left; snowy sidewalk

H A I K U

ELIZABETH ST JACQUES

new year 2000
my Christmas cactus
continues to bloom

cold moon
the watchful wolf
glistening with frost

bitter night
breaking the silence,
a pine tree's snap

bright sunlight
down the snowy hill
laughter of children

About the Poet

Elizabeth St Jacques' reviews, articles, and poetry have been published internationally, included in a number of anthologies and websites. Over the years, she has judged numerous poetry competitions and served as Poetry Editor of Canadian Writer's Journal, Contributing Editor with Small Press Review, and a Book Review Editor with Albatross (Romania). Presently, she serves as Associate Editor of Sijo West. Elizabeth's book reviews have appeared in Canadian Book Review Annual, Canadian Author, Atlantic Books Today, Freelance, Haiku Canada, Frogpond, Albatross, among others. Author of eight books, two of which are award-winners, her poetry has earned numerous awards. Editor of Poetry In The Light, which features Oriental poetry, related essays, articles, and reviews in the English language by world acclaimed poets. (See also Elizabeth's biography at her excellent website.)
Website: Poetry In The Light.

E-Mail: esj@sympatico.ca

FERRIS GILLI

flooded creek --
minnows school
in a heron's nest

new spider web --
a drop of resin
catches sunlight

sunset . . .
water weeds drip
from a stork's beak

winter sun
the hammock's shadow
gets thinner

bathroom garden --
the aralia spider
lurks in a faucet

wind rustling
over the corn shocks . . .
moonrise

first morning
the aloe's bloom stalk
leans against a wall

my diet begins --
again the cat stalks
a cloth mouse

winter pond
a slow wind ruffles
glints of sunlight

first sun
she bathes the bonsai
leaf by leaf

About the Poet

Ferris Gilli was born and grew up in Georgia. She has lived in Paraguay and Germany and now resides with her husband, Harry, in Orlando, Florida. Ferris has earned a first and a fourth place in the Alabama Sakura Haiku Competition and won third prize in the 1998 Herb Barrett contest. She was among the ten winners of the 2nd Annual International People's Haiku Contest and won Honorable Mention in the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society East-West 99 Hokku Contest, the 1999 Harold G. Henderson Awards, and the NLAPW poetry contest. Ferris's haiku, tanka, haibun, and renku have appeared in Cicada, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Acorn, Raw Nervz, Haiku Spirit, Presence, Tundra, and Lynx. Her work has been selected to appear in The Art of Haiku 2000; American Haibun & Haiga 1999; The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 1999; Snapshots; and the Tanka Hundred anthology. Her poems can be seen online at Poetry in the Light, Reflections, Haiga Online, The Heron's Nest, Chaba, and Pickings. When Ferris is not bird watching, writing haiku, gardening, or visiting with her daughter Susana, she writes mystery novels.

E-Mail: hgilli@cfl.rr.com

MARIA STEYN

sudden cold
dripping from a window
dust-filled raindrops

drought's end
puddles soak the roots
of a dead tree

midnight moon
silent bat wings circle
the garden

between earth and sky
the afterglow where swallows
swoop and glide

bushveldt afternoon
a herd of zebra graze
in light and shade

noonday
a sunflower vibrates
against the hot sky

quiet pasture
a horse munches on
dry grass

evening breeze
through pin oak leaves
a star

About the Poet

Maria Steyn lives in South Africa with her husband, young daughter, two collies, a cat and a variety of wild garden birds. As a student, she had poetry published in the university's literary magazine, won a poetry competition, and became editor of the student magazine for literature. She attained an honours degree in Philosophy and then furthered her studies to become a language teacher. After a few years of teaching in Soweto and various private schools, and some more years raising a small child, she has taken up writing again in 1999. She has a passion for poetry, stories, books, children, nature, the fine arts and music.

E-Mail: chameleo@iafrica.com

JOY HEWITT MANN

old cemetery
wreath hung before the ice storm
brilliant in the sun

from the river bank
the willow tree unbending
this first walk of spring

with flower water
washing his granite stupa
texture of the stone

a bowl of colors
promises enlightenment
Imari china

a cicada calls
beyond hydro power lines
-- electricity

two blue herons fly
across the Nation River
white and grey water

About the Poet

Joy Hewitt Mann has been writing poetry and fiction since 1989 when her youngest son started school. She has since had over 400 poems published in magazines such as Amelia, Whetstone and The Malahat Review, and has had haiku -- which she began writing five years ago -- published in such magazines as Cicada, black bough, and Modern Haiku. Her first fiction collection, Clinging to Water, will be published by Boheme Press, Toronto, Canada, in June 2000. She is also the editor of a bi-monthly writers' newsletter. In 1997 she was awarded the $5,000 Leacock Award for Poetry. After ten years, Joy still stands in awe at the power of writing; how it can change the writer as much as, if not more than, the reader: "I still have no idea where this wonderful gift comes from." When not writing, Joy runs a large junkstore in Spencerville, Ontario, Canada where she lives in an old, stone mill-house with her husband and three children.

E-Mail: joyhm@ripnet.com

DENIS GARRISON

setting in hedgerow
red sun tangled black branches
ah, the flaming snow

bravely in the breeze
wave these soft blue flags in shreds
irises full-blown

black flocks of grackles
flow into white southern sky . . .
here comes the north wind

wet warm breeze
snow melt swells misty brook
blue crocus bloom

swinging from wing tips
two vultures twirl a funnel
in remnants of fog

in low scudding clouds
a diving hawk disappears . . .
there she is again

last night a deep snow
on the porch rail this morning
two owls side by side

remembering
hovering over stream
a dragonfly

at this ancient well
the old bucket handle shines
deep and green the moss

About the Poet

Denis M. Garrison lives in Monkton, Maryland in the U.S.A.
His biography is available at his Poetry Page.

E-Mail: denismgarrison@yahoo.com

S E N R Y U

ISSARA JONES

becoming clear
the window and I
are one

Spilt coffee!
My breath dries
curling page

with tiny kisses
i trace her sensitive hip
butterfly tattoo

prison yard --
colorful tattoos bounce
between thick grey walls

About the Poet

Issara Rhys-Jones resides on the Outer Banks of North Carolina where
he works on a number of art/business projects both large and small.
When the weather is right he writes haiku or senryu for a few web zines.

E-Mail: Iessara@Yahoo.com

DENIS GARRISON

gone two years
now she finds his note
weeping widow

first kanji drawn
dam is breached and
ink flows

peach petal on snow
my Jane would have been
ten today

dew dampened boots
torn letters litter bridge
mourning wind

garbagemen have left
cans lying in the gutter -
crows inspect the job

snowy sidewalk
amongst many footprints
one red mitten

About the Poet

Denis M. Garrison lives in Monkton, Maryland in the U.S.A.
His biography is available at his Poetry Page.

E-Mail: denismgarrison@yahoo.com

Haiku Harvest - ISSN: 1557-7619 (Digital)- Volume 1, Number 1 - Spring 2000

H A I K U

ELIZABETH ST JACQUES

About the Poet

FERRIS GILLI

About the Poet

MARIA STEYN

About the Poet

JOY HEWITT MANN

About the Poet

DENIS GARRISON

About the Poet

S E N R Y U

ISSARA JONES

About the Poet

DENIS GARRISON

About the Poet

Copyright © 2000-2001 by Denis M. Garrison.