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III. "Original Haiku by Our Subscribers"
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(Gar-Note:  Trying something a little different with this section,
   let me know what you think...)
 
 
 
 
4)      Gnarled oak
        holds bare branches aloft
        -awaiting spring
 
 
 
 
 
                              2)      A leaf
                                      Not the same on
                                      My kitchen floor
 
 
 
 
4)      fallen leaf
        floating on wooded stream
        swirls in an eddy
 
 
 
 
 
                              5)      From the naked branch
                                      a single yellowing leaf
                                      hangs
 
 
 
 
8)      leaf drifts slowly down
        Father Time takes one more step
        towards cold winter
 
 
 
 
                              1)      Coasting, skimming ghosts.
                                  Dense lake mist drifts to reveal
                                      Canadian geese!
 
 
 
 
7)   The ground hardened
     By the first breath of autumn
     Misting from my lips.
 
 
 
 
 
                          7)       Headlights through the trees:
                                   Beams of mist
                                   On an autumn night.
 
 
 
3)      lunar eclipse
        my eyelids
        drooping
 
 
 
                              9)      lying on my back
                                      the column of exhaled steam
                                      rises to the moon
 
 
 
 
9)      my gaze ascends the pine
        to where its branches
        embrace shrinking moon
 
 
 
 
 
                              3)      lunar eclipse
                                      frozen maple leaves
                                      rattle
 
 
 
3)      moment
        of total eclipse
        cramp in my neck
 
 
 
 
                              9)      full moon
                                      disappearing
                                      in a cloudless sky
 
 
 
 
9)      noone attending
        my first moon-viewing party
        but two barking dogs
 
 
 
 
 
                              4)      Moth...
                                      searching for the moon
                                      finds my porch light
 
 
 
 
4)      wolf tracks...
        in the new-fallen snow
        pass in the night
 
 
 
                              9)      as my three-year old
                                      tracks the great bear
                                      I note its boot-tread
 
 
 
 
4)      from the mountainside
        the green valley
        and seeing...for miles
 
 
 
 
 
                              9)      distant city lights
                                      the wilderness of daylight
                                      not so wild now . . .
 
 
 
 
9)      Sitting on Bald Rock
        teaching my son to use
        the eyes in his ears
 
 
 
 
                              4)            in a notch
                                      formed by nearby hills
                                     the great mountain's peak
 
 
 
 
9)      like the humps
        of a terrible sea serpent
        ridges in mountain-mist
 
 
 
 
                              7)      Softened by morning mist -
                                         the red flare
                                      of reflected sunlight.
 
 
 
 
2)      Chinese restaurant
     Aluminum take-out tray
        Recyclable -- gleams!
 
 
 
                              9)      Reaching a crossing
                                        Steam whistle accompanies
                                          Silent moving lips
 
 
 
 
2)      The train punches north.
        Is the grass lush, or is it
        The tinted window?
 
 
 
 
 
                              8)      first love, first kisses
                                      wonderful and frightening
                                      over so quickly
 
 
 
 
 
6)      so fast a heart
        so delicate a chest
        tiny bird
 
 
 
 
                              4)      hawk soaring...
                                      flaps his wings once
                                      in the still air
 
 
 
 
9)      until spring melting
        we see each other no more
        fisherman heron
 
 
 
 
                              6)      fisherman's hand
                                          nets
                                      of her stockings
 
 
 
 
6)      coming near me
        the nude dancer's
        spearmint
 
 
 
 
 
                              4)      in the midst of war
                                      death and destruction
                                      -a butterfly
 
 
 
4)      middle of a field
        on a brown leafless stalk
        a blue flower
 
 
 
 
1) Terry Asher (TA2321S@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU)
2) "Tom Frenkel"  (FRENKEL@cpmail-am.cis.columbia.edu)
3) Gene Doty (gdoty@umr.edu)
4) JONWOOD@delphi.com
5) Mykel Board (MQB8130@NYUACF.BITNET)
6) Chuck Easter (salparadis@aol.com)
      ("fisherman's hand" and "so fast a heart" were
       originally published in Modern Haiku)
7) Andreas Schoter (asch@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)
8) Debbie Blohm (bblohm@hpbs1686.boi.hp.com)
9) Gary Warner (glwarner@samford.bitnet)

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